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.

[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]

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.

[rdonj]

Ashdod has been hit pretty hard by nerfs, and not necessarily always in ways I would have preferred. But they haven't been nerfed into worthlessness. You just have to evolve your tactics around the new changes. You can still make them fatigue neutral with just a girdle of might, and that wasn't a bad idea before anyway. So you just need a bit of construction research and the willingness to spend some gems. Honestly the fact that niefelheim still has just 4 encumbrance is ridiculous though, jarls were much sillier IMO. Anyway, you're not going to be able to use ashdod the same way anymore, but think of that as a challenge to improve your playing ability. From what I've heard you have certain habits for playing the same way every time, with a brute force approach. But there is a lot of subtlety in the game to learn, and if you try to stretch out a bit more, you may find a way to work around the issues you have with Ashdod's sacreds. With the support from the zamzummites and some of their other things, plus gearing your sacreds to at least some modest degree, you should get a much better performance out of them.

[Valerius]

It looks like the difference is the Anakite armor encumbrance was increased from 2 in CBM 1.84 to 3 in CBM 1.92. Doing a quick check it seems like prot 12-14 armors are generally 2 encumbrance, prot 20+ are 3 encumbrance and prot 16-17 can go either way. For example, Aby's troops have a prot 17, enc 2 plate hauberk but Pan's centaur cataphracts have prot 17, enc 3 centaur barding.

Of course for commanders you can get around this by swapping out their armor and/or adding reinvig gear but the troops are stuck with it. Given its OP history Ashdod doesn't get much sympathy and I'm assuming this was a deliberate nerf so that even with an assumed E10 bless they could be tired out more rapidly than when they had a total encumbrance of 6 under 1.84 (though to be fair Hinnom's [commander-only AFAIK] prot 17 Dawn Armor still has an encumbrance of 2).

Originally Posted by rdonj

Honestly the fact that niefelheim still has just 4 encumbrance is ridiculous though, jarls were much sillier IMO.

I can even live with the jarls, it's those damn skratti sending everyone to hell that gets me.