Early Game Maximizing income vs long term growth.

[SsSam]

Edi said:
Upkeep is tied to unit price. Every 15 gold causes 1 upkeep, so a unit with a price of 150 has upkeep of 10. Sacred units have half upkeep.

Making the money intensive 5 Hydra army even more expensive. Thanks. I had not seen that. Still, for initial growth, these creatures are extraordinary, but at that kind of expense you sure don't want to field any more than 2 forces like that to eat up indies and scare off rushes.

With ord-3 gr-3 It looks like I can certainly recover from 4-5 turns of 150% taxation to start with. I can probably even jump it to 200% for a turn without hurting things too much in the long term.

Looks like I'll adjust tax rates to match my build forces, trying to get one hydra army up and going as job #1.

[Aezeal]

no it still makes hydra's cheap since else you'd probably still expand with armys for the same amount of cash only you'd loose troops and the hydra is sacred right?

[Edi]

Not in MA.