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In a row or in a 1v5? "In a row" does not matter too much, group fights are the thing.

And thanks a lot to ValihrAnt for making his awesome videos!

Cleopatra is so much better than Ptolemaios... Because mercenaries are a waste of resources now.

Macedons and successors all have champ cavalry, which they can boost - Macedons with Phillip - Seleucids with Antiochus and the upgrade - Ptolemies with Cleopatra (she is not as fast, but the best hero in the game nevertheless)

Maharbal. The 30% bonus is better than the +2 armor. Can also be combined with champions. At the other hand, the Cataphrakts can receive the bonus upgrade, which makes them stronger in the end Btw I like sword cav more than spear cav

In A23, Agis had twice as much health as other infantry heroes, that was his bonus. The dev team made the blunder to eliminate this on accident, so now there is no real reason to train Agis ever instead of Leonidas, because Leonidas is like an Agis with an extra Aura

Thanks a lot to mysticjim for making these awesome videos!

I just read on Wikipedia: The unfolded planks were a novelty in the middle ages

Recently I watched a historical video which says that the pop-culture siege towers (which are used to capture walls) are rather wrong. In reality, the siege towers where used to shoot at the defenders (and to destroy gates / walls / buildings) So they should be fine.

It will, because it will nerf my secret killer strategy: The women rush!

- There is a lot of interaction possible in the early game. Right from the start you can run over the map to the opponent and interact with him - if the beginning is too slow for you, maybe play with higher starting resources? - booming is not turtling. There is a clear difference between a women-from-houses-boom and turtling with lots of towers, walls and fortresses... believe me - cavalry can actually make the eco stronger - cavarly can be very durable - cavalry scouting is actually very important. That bad players tend to not doing it doesnt mean that its not a thing. On scout missions, the cavalry can also harass the opponent - if you think that rushes consist only of cavalry, then you dont have enough experience in the game. Infantry rushes are clearly a thing

Ratings are back!

I think that this is bad. Are there already plans to solve the issue? Possibly it's not possible anymore to play rated games, even though these games are shown as rated. The Ratings bot is offline.

Nobody suggested that all citizens lose their armor. The idea was that units which have 1 armor get that reduced to 0. But this can have a big impact on the game for no signifcant reason, so it should not be done. At the other hand, you could just lower all armors in the game by 1 and decrease all damages by 10%. But is it worth the effort? No.

It does makes sense. Champs have better gear. So they have more armor.

We should just leave it as it is

Skirmishers deal a lot of damage per second, so it's no surprise that they are more deadly against elephants than spear cav Spear cav is not too bad, especially if it levels up If someone quits a rated game without resigning, it should be counted as loss. We need a technical solution for this, by the help of a timer for example.

Small changes to the game can pretty snowball...

It can go like: barter 500 stone for 550 metal barter 500 metal for 550 stone and so forth. This is really glitchy. I suggest to lower the bonus to 15% and see if its still possible to exploit it.

The Macedonian team bonus is OP: It allows to gain resources by bartering. So you can create resources just by clicks, if you have some resources already and a market. Please lower the 20% to a percentage where it's not possible anymore. 15% maybe?

Siege towers can also be countered by rams, catapults and melee troops, especially cavalry. But of course they must not get a speed bonus.

Another night you thought you'd booked an alternative musician, but instead an Iberian Hero turned up in full armour. "And who the hell are you?" you exclaimed. He just looked up and said: "Indie-Bill!"

Just change nothing here

Aggressive soldiers will keep collecting/building/repairing even when enemies are right next to them. They will fight back when they are attacked, but this doesn't help too much in many situations. If the aggressive soldiers soldiers are standing around or patrolling, they will fight when they see an enemy. If they are defensive, they will walk to the enemy only if they get close like 50% of sight range or something similar.

Maybe it would be better to implemented new civs only in mods, as the multiplayer community seems to have no need for new civs? Singleplayer-oriented players can play mods, they don't need to be in synch with the multiplayer community. Multiplayers do.