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It is just another feature creep. The only reason Red Alert had a "Spy" unit is because the Cold War mentality was still prevalent in the 90's. It was meant as a gimick, and to support some fun SP missions at the time.

I imagine your farming is extremely slow, then. The number of women depends on the state of the game. You need minimum 20 by mid game, and about 45-50 by the late game. Seriously, make women early on. It's easy to send them to farms/fields later.

you should train woman for eco.

Those are good points, I have noticed the unit balance shifting since A27, I almost never see champion cavalry now, unless I am the one trying to use it, civs with strong anti cav options are also getting picked more, and Han crossbow and halberdier/spearman combination is horrifically lethal to champion cavalry and just about everything else too, I was genuinely surprised at how effective it turned out to be. Pikes have also become very decent damage dealers while maintaining good durability, especially great in wars of attrition, so that is a very nice change

Hi @Fabius I see the suggestion. However, in my opinion, the romans' relatively simple unit roster is important. Civs should have different strengths and weaknesses, and part of that is having an incomplete roster. Depending on how unit balance evolves going forward, there may be a need for the romans to get a different ranged unit, but for now I don't think they need it. I worry that adding extra units creates kind of a situation like mace currently, where they are very good at a lot of different strategies. If the range is really crucial, using bolts is a good choice.

I mentioned the idea as linked below, and then it occurred to me that it might be a good suggestion for testing in the community mod. A possible twist of interest is both slinger and archer options but as an either/or setup. That being said given the obvious slowing of eco the Reforms imposes, since spearmen are slower than ranged units, an archer would be most consistent to that with its walk time.

The idea of a scout unit that can camouflage when it’s not moving sounds cool, kind of like a hunter or assassin. It should only be visible when it’s moving or attacking, and only to units close to it or other spies.

What if it was a setting: faster firing lowers accuracy and damage or slower firing increases accuracy and damage? Then there is more choice, and maybe each archer could have it’s own setting.

Yeah, thanks for the aura idea. I’m going to use it.

I don’t use or train any women after the starting four, just cause they are useless in combat, whereas citizen soldiers can be ordered to do a massive attack at the end of the game.

I’m super lazy with these, really only build the blacksmith so I can upgrade to city phase. I just upgrade them in order and then forget about them.

here we are again .. you writing your walls of texts nobody will read

I do the exact opposite, basically just sitting in my starting spot and fortifying it into a super defensible position before I do anything aggressive.

I think it depends on how long it takes to capture a building versus destroy it. I always destroy civic centers, then build a new one, which captures all of the nearby enemy buildings. I also tend to destroy towers just cause they take out way to many of my units while I try to do other stuff.

Haven’t noticed that, what maps are you playing?

Thanks for the explanation. That’s more appealing than how you initially explained it and I could be in favor of something along the lines of what you say above. One suggestion I would have is to add a reduction in research time tech. That could open up some new build orders. For example, a player could choose to build only one blacksmith since the techs will research faster, so more diverse buildings will now be built. Alternatively, a player could build multiple blacksmiths and use them to guarantee that they have the best military techs for a p2 push. I think it probably also makes sense to make the library available in p1. That way players could really dive into the economic vs military strategy in p2. Otherwise p2 remains a transitory phase without a lot of action.

Does idle mean no fighting? What about movement and construction?

healing_short.mp4 The 2 healers heal each other from near death, gain rank 3 and from that point on gain the ability to float-heal (as I see it). It's definetly not just animation. One can see that the health bar goes up while the other healer is moving.

we did in historical!

On the topic of Marian Reforms, since auxiliaries become a thing why not add in an auxiliary archer or slinger? That would be a nice alternative option over just skirmishers which tend to inhibited by low range and poor accuracy. It would also fix the lack of a non metal ranged citizen unit that reforms brings about. Not to mention some much needed tactical flexibility in the ranged field.

Need more info on why Marian Reforms is strong in 1v1. The main draw is still onagars I would say, not the ranked up troops since you can already get second rank troops from the castrum in second age. And you have to put up with the economic restructuring that reforms bring too. I would very much like current siege pop left as is. Some more interesting general siege techs would be nice though, like something to increase splash damage or add a burning effect like we have on Iberian fire cav. Honestly it would be cool if we had a return of the A23 style roman scorpio that was packed on a donkey instead of in a cart like everybody else's. Maybe give it a little differentiation like make it weaker and cheaper than the normal bolt thrower but have it more manoeuvrable. Kind of like the abus gun the Ottomons have in Age III.

I think this is an animation issue; the healing animation is rather long although the health gain is instant. If the unit moves slightly (not run away like your jav) while the healing animation is playing, the healer is still stuck in the healing animation which doesn't involve its feet. Therefore it looks like gliding. It's nothing major though, healing mechanism is still working as intended

The Ptol library is ok as it is; it is neither op nor completely useless. If you know that your enemy is not going to push early, you can fly P2 with just 3 forges then leave all military techs to P3 after you have the library. In terms of absolute numbers of resources, you are saving a lot. However, you are delaying yourself with the extra build power investment and the delays, so you would be at a disadvantage if you get attacked. This means the Library is the most useful when you are up against another turtle player, in which case you aim for wtf tech

I get that it sounds that way, but the way we did it* actually gives the player more agency while making the library not quite as powerful as a full p2 variant, but still more useful as in vanilla. (* we put a tech for each "category" of techs in the library; "Gather scrolls on military knowledge", "Gather ... economic ..." and "Gather ... general ...", where each of them applies the reduction to the relevant area. That way, the player can choose what is more important right now/for his gameplan. But each unlock tech in the library takes 60s i think, so by the time you got all three youre already in p3, at which point the library is as useful as in vanilla)

@TheCJ @BreakfastBurrito_007 Yeah, I’m not sure the library as it currently exists—a straight resource reduction—even makes sense. It might make sense to change it a bit. Making it the same but behind other techs that you have to research just sounds like making changes to make changes.