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Pickles said:
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Mark the Merciful said:
....Your investment in elephants pays back in a little under six turns. That's pretty damn good; an awful lot better than you could expect in real life.
I wonder if it's unbalanced?
Mark
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The difference is that after 5 or 10 provinces or whatever you can expand no more - it is bounded.
Pickles
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Yeah and gold income tends to decrease in the long run because a lot of nations have death scales + random events / spells .
4 elephants + 16 Hypaspists are not bad but normally with each province you conquer you will lose at least 1-2 Hypaspists or sometimes one elephant . So if you can conquer 5 provinces with this force is already good but on indeps 7-9 at least i doubt that .
And a SC can conquer those provinces without upkeep or if it is a recruitable SC ( Jotunheim ) goldwise significantly cheaper . And he doesn't lose his value mid-lategame as your hypaspists + elephants do .