You need to look to Eggy and China

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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First of all: I’m happy with latest 2 patches (considering PUP) overall.

But there are problems with both China and Eggy that you should look at. For some reason, you just keep nerfing and buffing norse when they are not the problem in balance.

Right now, Eggy are really strong at classical age, being able to raid and delay opponent eco with Sphinxs or Anubite, while spamming any comp needed in 1 type of barrack. If greek wants to survive, it needs to spend a lot in expensive units which are trained in 3 different types of barrack.
Then, Eggy easily grabs 2TC and go Heroic with a good amount of army, gets even more powerful army trained quickly in Migdols and have a nice GP.

China is weird, especially Shennong, which can have MUs, Kuafus (which build 2TC really fast) and then a crazy OP late game.

Call some proplayers and discuss with them why they consider banning Shennong from tourneys and why 90% of them put Eggy alone in S tier.

Stop simply buffing norse so you need to nerf it again 1 or 2 patches later.

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i still see many ppl play Norse. So many it slowly gets totally annoying and exhausting. If you are not a strong and quick player, like i am, its hard to play against Norse cause they rush you and spam buldings and immediately take TCs in fights. (i know that they can do this and that this is one of their strong suits but i never knew its so oppressive during playing vs other players. I personally nearly never see someone play Chinese for whatever reason even ppl say they are strong and i myself struggle with China even i like them (but thats obviously cause i am not quick enough with great build orders but w/e i guess)

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And how do you think the Norse were strengthened?