Conceptual Balance (Discussion)

Xietor · #1 April 28th, 2007, 01:31 AM

While touching on Man, they have terrible infantry, and their tower guard, described as the elite unit of Man(lol), should not be more than 10 gold.

It is 13 gold, and it is not even in the same ballpark as other infantry that is much better for 10 gold. And if you look at Pangaea's 13 gold infantry and compare it to man's 13 gold infantry, well you may even say man's so-called elite infantry should cost 8 gold.

Sombre · #2 April 28th, 2007, 01:34 AM

In CB it's 12 gold and has 12 morale.

Xietor · #3 April 28th, 2007, 01:55 AM

they say great minds think alike!

Teraswaerto · #4 April 28th, 2007, 06:31 AM

Something to consider is that overall balance for a nation can not be reduced to comparing individual units. Infantry of Man may be inferior both in effectiveness and cost to that of many other nations, but does anyone think Man is a weak nation?

Dedas · #5 April 28th, 2007, 06:39 AM

Yes you have to have a holistic view if any balance is to be achieved in this game. It isn't a game of one unit pitted against another after all.

Sombre · #6 April 28th, 2007, 07:33 AM

I was just playing about with CB MA Ctis and I noticed that Heavy Infantry have one less morale than City Guard. I still think they're somewhat useful as a resource sink, but city guard are better basically (+1 morale, mapmove 2, lower resource cost). Interesting anyway :]

MaxWilson · #7 April 28th, 2007, 07:55 AM

You don't think Prot 16 (vs. 12 for City Guard) is worthwhile? I find Heavy Infantry mix nicely with Elite Warriors, except for the mapmove.

-Max