Player of 0AD

Almost never. "That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick." Why would you wall off a wood line? It's full of soldiers. You can build palisades in neutral territory though if you want. Towers: Usually zero, but they are much more common than palisades let alone walls ;-) The most effective way to use walls might be to chose Iberians ;-)

Yes my friend, you do. Btw. the only buildings where archers add more arrows than other soldiers are walls.

ChatGPT wrote massive trash. When the hero dies, the bonus is gone forever. The line of sight of the hero is far greater than 45m. There is indeed a fixed radius. The cavalry unit doesnt have to be newly trained, it just needs to be a cavalry unit.

You do know that it's possible to save and load multiplayer matches since Alpha 27?

I just installed the mod, activated it and then I checked out a singleplayer replay where the market exploit was tested. But I couldn't see that this exploit was recognized...

It doesn't work in singleplayer replays?

Where does this come from?

Maybe we just need to lower the initial rating from 1200 to something like 800. Many new players aren't 1200, they are much weaker.

- it's okay that the system just takes the result into account, it's irrelevant how close it was. In many other games it's like this too. - it's ok that people can play rated matches against players who are much lower rated. if they lose, they lose a lot of points... - we need a rating system for team games too. Shouldn't be that hard....

You can't capture buildings? Try to build bigger armies then

The power of the Spartans is their infantry. Besides using Champions or Skiritai you can also mass up skirmishers and combine them with the Brasidas hero and some melee units, or you can go for a large number of hoplites which you boost with the hoplite tradition technology and the Leonidas hero. As infantry is slow think about using some ranged cavalry as well. Actually, rushing with the champions shouldnt work so well. They are so expensive, the enemy could easily create a big citizen soldier army which should be able to overwhelm them. At least thats what I estimate.

The quetion was what's the counter to spear champ cav, not the counter to a mix of spear champ cav and inf ;-)

They are all weak ;-)

An alternative would be to compile the game by yourself, more informations (but maybe not all) are here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions#DebianUbuntu

Don't know if an AppImage works here, but you could give it a try: https://github.com/0ad-matters/0ad-appimage/releases