[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by licker:
Pretty nice sumation there Saber. You might also add changing encumbrance for HIs, or upping defense for LIs. I still think that some economic reason to chose LIs will make them seen. And to accomplish that you have to fiddle with their upkeep and supply, both must be less than for MI or HI otherwise you'll still hit the value bottleneck and find LI useless.

You're looking at the wrong problem IMO - assuming that LI will always be the same as HI but weaker, and trying to find a price point where they will be useful anyway.

I'd rather see them get new abilities that make them useful in a way that is different from HI; then even though they may have equal cost, both types of infantry would still be useful.

The same issue applies to light vs. heavy cavalry, too.

BTW, thanks to Saber for starting this thread. Some of the same issues were being discussed on another thread, but on this type of forum you can't change the thread title to indicate topic drift.