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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
One way to balance these guys out would be to remove some of their Movement (as in Provinces-per-Turn). Tibetan armour might have been known and renouned as far away as Arabia, but the Tibetans themselves don't seem to have wandered terribly far away from Chomolungma. Not every 3 needs to be a 2, or every 2 reduced to 1, but if you made your horsemen a 2, and your crossbowmen a 1, it would do a lot for balance (and not make them quite as crossbow-crazy as every other MA nation), and also give more reason to use your archers.
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I will consider reducing heavy cavalry movement. For crossbowmen, I have augmented their movement so much that now they are in LA
(yep, they are so fast they travel through eras
!), so no more crossbow in MA, I think. But perhaps a special-crossbowman unit in LA (
I was thinking in something like the chinese Chu-Ko-Nu, or repeating crossbow : less powerful than ordinary crossbow, thus less damage, not armor-piercing, but poisoned, as it was often the case historically...)
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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
yak-riders are both awesome and terrible. There's really no reason in the world to buy a horseman, with yaks around. But, other than the Gore replacing the Hoof, they're currently interchangeable with horsemen. If it were me (and it's not, I know), I'd take away all of your horse-mounted units' Mountainwalk ability, and just give it to the yaks, which I would then make "No need to Eat" (to better represent the Tibetan treasure-trove that is a yak), and give Stealth (0) to-along with a Gold-hike.  |
Yeah, I already had remover mountain survival from cavalry, so I agree entirelly
, but NNE for a yack ? I would give it supplybonus instead (It eat, but less than a horse, and is a potential source of food). Stealthy yack ? Don't know...
"Hey, man, is it a yack I've just seem ?" "Yeah, and what ? Everybody knows that we Abysians/Agarthan/jotuns/Bandar/(fill in with your favorite nation name) have huge herds of yacks, so it's all normal to see yacks here..."
No, I guess even a bakemeno is not stupid enough not to note a yack...
BTW, I'll PERHAPS include a Yack summon... just for fun (and to use some yack graphics I initially made for yack-riders)...