Ashdod is worthless now

[ghoul31]

Their troops have 7 fatigue in the new cbm. The enemy can just throw tons of junk troops at you and fatigue you out and slaughter you.

[PriestyMan]

Ashdod is too good. all they do is research evo and kill all the crap i keep sending at them

[Squirrelloid]

Holy ****, E10N4 bless =/= win anymore because Ashdod actually has reasonable encumbrance for how much armor it has! Stop the presses!

W.A.I.

[ghoul31]

anyone not on my ignore list want to answer?

[Happerry]

No, not really. The proficient people who you like ignoring because you refuse to improve and make us suspect you are a robot when we consider your tactics already said what we were thinking.

But hey, don't worry! You can always just mass their super longbowmen people and other archers for a rain of death! They're surprisingly fun!

[ghoul31]

Say what you want, but when Ulm can just march through Ashdod like they aren't even there, you know cbm has gotten way out of control.

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by ghoul31

Say what you want, but when Ulm can just march through Ashdod like they aren't even there, you know cbm has gotten way out of control.

Uh, Black Guardians always marched through Anakim like they weren't there. Outnumbered sacreds against Black Guardians? lulz.

Oh wait, you aren't going to see this. Oh well.

[kianduatha]

Care to explain more what happened? Was Ashdod using their sacreds vs. guardians, or was it more Iron Blizzard spam or something else?

[Squirrelloid]

You have your other better cheaper sacreds, which only have 5 encumbrance. You know, for anyone reading this who might actually believe ghoul since he isn't going to read this.

[triqui]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

You have your other better cheaper sacreds, which only have 5 encumbrance. You know, for anyone reading this who might actually believe ghoul since he isn't going to read this.

Those are Berserkers, and also fatigue while they are berserking.

I don't think Ashdod is "worthless". They aren't the worse nation in the roster, not by a long shot. However, the OP is right in one thing: that 2 extra encumbrance is hurting them, badly.

They are incredibly outnumbered in any fight. With fatigue, they have a tough time fighting almost any chaff. For a unit that is worth 100+ gold and 40-80 resources, they aren't that good.

Not only that, but even more important, in my opinion. With encumbrance 7, they are FORCED to have a high earth bless. There's no option, no other chance, no way to play them in a original way. 7 encumbrance per round means they'll autodeafeat themselves by fatigue, unless they have E9+ bless.

That, imho, is horrible. There should not be any "mandatory" bless for a nation.

Just my 0,02