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Not sure if possible to implement, but maybe you can only train slaves after a certain number of enemy units are killed, this would avoid slave spam and be historically accurate as well. With exception to spartans, which were a slaver society, perhaps they could train slaves for free at a certain limited rate as a civ bonus. I am not sure which other civilizations had big slave populations but this could be available for Romans, Hellenic and Ptolemies.

That is on point, sword would be used as a secondary weapon if the lance broke or the rider lost his mount. Also, apart from the other points already mentioned (chasing retreating units, scouting, attacking light infantry) on many battles of the antiquity they were used to great effect with the anvil and hammer strategy, heavy infantry attacking the front lines while the cavalry would circle the flanks and attack from behind. If I am not mistaken I've read that 0ad has logic with regard to lower armor when attacked by the flank, I am not too sure if this is actually implemented though. If we were striving for historical accuracy though we would have a very hard job to make it real, as it would require heavily nerfing skirmish units, they were used just behind the frontline to taunt the enemy, get a few kills before armies clashed, or the flanks. Slingers had an even less preeminent role. So I would avoid looking at drastic changes at a first iteration to improve balance, just making it better than the current state would be a huge accomplishment. If we were allowed to dream though: - Archers and skirmishers could have a limit to how many throws they can perform and then get a cooldown, this would drastically reduce their abuse. - Flanking generates an aoe morale effect in which units would have a more drastic armor nerf, reduced attack speed or similar - Your favorite civ trivia: roman soldiers throw a pillum (a javelin shaped weapon) and draw their gladius (sword) or use it against cav, macedonians can have sarissa wielders (greatly increased armor in formation, abismal walk speed), etc... - etc...

Happy to see movement in this direction, I played and spec'ed a few times and must say that the game flow seems much more nuanced and balanced. I am happy to help, whether adjusting parts of the code to patches or playtesting.

Well, disregarding the fact that it was arguably the worst faction against the best one and that you had 2 extra berries... Had borg scouted you were on a women centric economy until 100-120 pop it could have been different, nevertheless still a good win. That is quite an achievement, congrats. Stay above the drama and keep it up.

I'll take a look at the source and work on the weekend to figure out how to make changes in separate commits. Does the development team accept patches in.. well patch format? Since I use git I would be more comfortable just using my workflow and sending each patch separately. Some should be pretty straightforward to be included in separate patches/commits, e.g.: loom 100% health, archer buff, slinger nerf, ele buff, etc...

> Swordcav and Lancecavis useless. Archers own them in mass! Does not seem like someone who understands interactions between these units. > U still dont get notified when u r in a battle wiht a player and another player is raping ur base. Not sure what this means, I think it's lack of attention span unless it's a bug I never faced. > Ballista are totally overpowered. 3 ballista can rape army of 100 with eles. I am not sure an experienced player would have an issue here, ballistas are powerful yes but they have major drawbacks that can be easily overcame. > Melee units are trying to convert opponents siege instead of destroying it. I mean, I understand that the defaults may not be your personal preference, most of the time you'll want to destroy instead of capturing. But not paying attention to a simple default is not reason to blame 'balance beyond bad'. This assertion is true, it does not mean that the accusations aforementioned are objective truths as opposed to frustration.

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Great match, thanks for sharing! Though I don't see it much as 'Reborn from ashes':

I am afraid these towers will be abused much. As much as I like the idea of leaving my base knowing that I can defend from siege, I am concerned about incentivising turtling.

Spoiler alert: ptols and brits.

I'll be able to play this week, if possible.

Awesome, matrix is great! Linking the official client, as the previous one require a bit of reading: https://riot.im/app/#/room/!pJKqVICIcXcKKDJyBv:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=halogen.city&via=t2bot.io

I think any competitive player would be likely to run at lowest graphical settings, both for performance and contrast. The commentarists can run on high specs.

I see you have it included, nice work!

I think continent medium is a nice format, has more flexibility and same pros of mainland

Up! PS: Ah, 26-27 october I can't , sign me up for next week run if possible

It seems the game only tilted more due to bad transition to farms than to the rush itself thought to be fair it was probably due to rush distraction.

This time was my mistake :-) Fixed now!

Map Mainland Size Normal Team 1 - Hannibal_Barca (-_-) (athen) - Palaiologos (1421) (iber) - Rauls (1747) (brit) - Tauriel (1587) (brit) Team 2 - andy_beauty (gaul) - camelius (1600) (ptol) - aow (spart) - MacWolf (1665) (brit) I haven't much to say about this match, except that camelius's build was a textbook example of a complete build with rushing and booming according to the constraints of the occasion. Rushed with 10 camels at min 3 on impacting mostly Rauls but also Palaiologos and Hannibal. Didn't lose a single camel with 33 kills, which would not be exceptional if not for the fact that was also able to achieve p3 at 160 pop by 11:40. This allowed to rushing 4 catas on Rauls, damaged by previous rush on 110 pop. Overall this should be a replay to be studied by any player who wants to master ptolemies. commands.txt metadata.json

Awesome video detailing historical siege weapon usage by the Roman military:

I don't know what happened in this instance, I quite clearly remember they were available a few weeks ago. Thanks @Pudim for fixing!

Map Mainland (Normal) Autumn biome Team 1 Rauls Tauriel Ricsand lapatiencos Team 2 andy_beauty chrstgtr bbgotbanned Pudim Highlights of game are:

faction02 underrated as always. Thanks for sharing!

A series of 3 entertaining games SaidRdz vs Kristian Map: 2xContinent (Medium) 1xMainland (Small) kristianvsaidrdz.zip

He has quit one game that I reported as well, typical