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Originally Posted by Jarkko
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Originally Posted by Samulus
PD is atrocious.
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I have seen Machaka PD commit mass suicide and rout before the enemy did deal a single point of damage.
The enemy thug was buffing up. Machaka PD rushes forwards to contact. The second wave of the PD rush forwards, chucks the javelins at the backs of the first wave. Machaka troops rout. The enemy thug was still buffing up when the PD had legged off from the field... |
All the more reason to go for Mechanical Militia, another Construction benefit (not that I would necessarily go that route). Defense with many castles might be better, but unfortunately, Machaka is a Fortress/Fortified City nation so they don't get cheap castles like Man.
Machaka also gets the Eye of the lord, so I can boost tax revenues by patrolling by 10-20% (again as much Order-3 scales), and they're almost as good as the judges of LA Man, so money shouldn't be a problem. This also has the added benefit of making it very difficult to spy on me... Something I very much like. 10 PD and an Eye and you've got a nice counter-intelligence operation in every province worth gold farming. Putting a few spider riders, free spiders, or even just some indie heavy infantry would shore up the defenses.
Which actually brings up a point that I missed....
Machaka is a patroller nation which means that it should have massive tax revenues. This means that I
can hire lots of high-gold units which means that Spider Riders (still not Knights) are viable basic forces and I can still take Sloth-3. I still think that Machaka will need to use Fortresses for primary defense without a mod to their PD.
If PD was modded to be primarily hoplites and spiders, they would be more viable.
The problem with a castling strategy is that since I actually
like my recruitable sacred, unlike LA Man, I can't castle every square surrounding my capitol without harming my Hunter production.