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I dont think this is required as the increase due to blacksmith research is clearly specified in unit stats Yeah, but only after research. If the game has unit stat screen it should give all info. After all if there are already icons where the unit can be build why not also state which research it ...

Betrayal is actually barely doable - but only with heavy dependence on AI weird behavior and a little luck with conversion, as posted by ttim42 - http://www.ageofstrategy.net/viewtopic.php?p=9752&sid=715ddc3c2ff333ad3adda5ba5b80437c&sid=fba1c50ff8d48bbeea9ce6e6e2b15401#p9752 . Still, I belie...

Bait taken from Ambition campaign. If anyone disagrees - please discuss it here: http://www.ageofstrategy.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2005&sid=fba1c50ff8d48bbeea9ce6e6e2b15401 Paths of the Death from Nyadhos Strategy - (I know it is supposedly doable, but if knowledge of enemy unit placement is ...

You are right COOLguy. It was an overstatement.
Hussar has it's niche, just for me centurion is better fit - I use him more often (pikeman killing knights without the need for tower/archer shot before is really nice).

Is it possible to do in 25 turns? I tend to march all units given to north, west and east (up to a river) to destroy factories in as few turns as possible and focus on building port and workers. Tried already switching from workers to ornithopters at 2,3 and 4 workers, but they are only good at dest...

TheBluePhoenix's right. Now it is longer to build and has 1 less armor (meaning 5 attacks from non-upgraded knight not 6). He is still better than hussar, but it's not op.

Adding some kind of indicator for all units, stating if and which blacksmith research improves unit. It could also clarify which type of damage unit has. The easiest solution would be writing it in description. For example: Swordsman ... desc ... Weapon: Melee Armor: Infantry Spartan Hoplite ...desc...

Do you realize that lowering it's pierce armor to 8 changes only balista, tie fighter and maybe fire archer damage against it? Fully upgraded crossbowman has 8 attack, adv. warship - 9. It's still 1 damage. And these two, from what I remember, are strongest shooters. It's mostly a flavor to stop bat...

So is everyone agreeing with:
1. Correction of trebuchet bonus against heavy catapult (from 1000% to 60%)
2. Lowering battering ram pierce armor to 8-10
3. Raising balista range to 6.

I was doing that map yesterday - the best way seems to be charging right into enemy conserving only pikemen to bring down as many horse archers as they can. The goal with this charge is to bring enemy units to yellow health, targeting especially shooters. Meanwhile workers should be building factori...

About heavy knight hp - sorry - my mistake. Although I agree with almost everything you write. I actually don't really use hussar just knight and lancers ( sometimes light cavalry and elephants and others rarely), because heavy versions make these units best. But old stats of centurion made spamming...

Alexander82 wrote:I wouldn't make ballista make a double attack, but the range increasing should be a good choice and also, i think that the ballista should have a linear area damage...

Great, and if linear area damage would be implemented It would be great for many units.

... his stats were pretty similar to a heavy knight ... No, it was way better: Hussar/Centurion/Heavy knight Cost: 6/6/4 (+ research 6) Hp: 35/40/35 Attack power: 12/14/12 Armor: 0/3/2 Pierce Armor: 2/1/2 Speed: 6/5/5 Sight: 6/8/5? Spell resistance: 100%/100%/0% Special: none/Aura/none As you can s...

3. Well, I agree that balista now could have some uses, but when you have area damage it's just too weak compared to catapult and it still needs 6 turn research to build. Or rather it's use is easily replaced by other units. In most cases 5 archers (5*2 is like 6 + 4 turns) does better job. Anyway w...

3. That would make it a killing machine in some situations - let's see what others think about it.

2. That kind of a change would also mean balista would damage battering ram a little more, but still the pierce armor could be lowered to 10.

1. Trebuchet has 1000% bonus vs heavy catapult and 60% vs normal one - either the first bonus is wrong or second one. Either way - now trebuchet hit leaves catapult with a little hp and kills it completely after upgrade. 2. Battering ram has insanely high pierce armor - 180, but there is a problem -...

Just comparing it to winged hussar provides enough proof: Hussar Centurion Cost: 6 6 Hp: 35 40 Attack power: 12 14 Armor: 0 3 Pierce Armor: 2 1 Speed: 6 5 Sight: 6 8 Spell resistance: 100% 100% Special: Aura Centurion only disadvantage over Hussar is speed (which is specialty of Winged hussar) and p...