Spartan Hoplites Are Broken Beyond Repair — The Real Spam Nightmare After Fanatics

[Deicide4u]

Besides the Fanatics, Spartiates are by far the most broken units in the game. Seriously, these units are insanely overpowered and hard to counter. Can anyone name a unit that can reliably stop Spartiates? I bet you can’t.

They hit hard, have massive armor, can promote to Olympic status and even have technologies that make them stronger and faster. The only thing the developers could have done to stop the spamming of this unit was to add a population cost of 2. Unfortunately, they didn’t do that.

There are players abusing this by spamming Spartiates in P1, and it’s ruining the game for everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if some ecobot or clever Sparta player designed this unit to exploit the game by spamming them relentlessly for an unfair advantage.

What do you guys think? Any ideas on how to properly nerf or counter these broken units? I believe adding a population cost of 2 to build them would be an effective way to balance this unit. Moreover all Athenian Marines should be nerfed for sure.
We’ve already banned Fanatics from our games, and Spartiates definitely need to be banned as well. If the developers don’t nerf these units in the next alpha update and keep introducing unfair, broken units, we’ll have no choice but to keep banning them from our matches to maintain fair gameplay.

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Edited 1 hour ago by Deicide4u

[Fabius]

Please no, one thread arguing in circles about one random unit is bad enough, we don't need another one....

[Deicide4u]

6 minutes ago, Fabius said:

Please no,

You know it will be "Yes" eventually. Why not start early?  

[Seleucids]

The P1 Spartiates will take a heavy toll on the player's eco and cannot be spammed in large quantities due to the special building which is an extra cost. Even in P3, their cost and slow movement still deters players from overusing them. Finally, the Spartan civ is a weak one in A27 due to its other flaws, so having one above average unit doesn't cause a huge issue

 

[Deicide4u]

17 minutes ago, Seleucids said:

The P1 Spartiates will take a heavy toll on the player's eco and cannot be spammed in large quantities due to the special building which is an extra cost.

Doesn't matter, they are too strong. Please nerf. I win too many games with them against the AI, so they must be broken.

[guerringuerrin]

The trolling spirit of this post is very off

[Deicide4u]

4 minutes ago, guerringuerrin said:

trolling spirit of this post is very off

...the charts?