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

[real_tabasco_sauce]

If/when melee infantry champions become useful, these will need a massive nerf.

[Fabius]

2 hours ago, Classic-Burger said:

Slingers are fun.Or they felt like they were.They were literally mini catapults.

Catapults have twice the range and many times the damage, how will your slingers deal with that ?

[Classic-Burger]

11 minutes ago, Fabius said:

Catapults have twice the range and many times the damage, how will your slingers deal with that ?

But there is still some more practical (phase 1).

[Dakara]

2 hours ago, Fabius said:

Catapults have twice the range and many times the damage, how will your slingers deal with that ?

100 slingers do the job if no defense army

[Deicide4u]

4 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

 

when melee infantry champions become useful, these will need a massive nerf.

A sneak peak at the next OP champion unit after Spartiates get nerfed to death.

Spoiler

From the nerfed man himself.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Deicide4u

[Seleucids]

If every civ has access to most units and at least their counters, then this would be a lot less of an issue. 

In A27 we are seeing the civ rankings again (no rules TG):

Brokenly OP tier: Macedonians, Gauls

Strong tier: Seleucids, Persians, Ptolemies

Medium tier:  Romans, Kushites

Ok tier: Brits, Athenians, Han, Carthage, Spartans

Weak tier: Mauryas

Why? Champs cavs. The top ranking civs all have champ cavs. But if we ban that, we get:

Brokenly OP: Gauls (because fanatics)

Strong: Brits, Athenians, Romans, Ptolemies, Macedonians 

 

So we see fanatics are still OP. If we remove that too, then Gauls will just drop down to the strong tier. 

Spartans is always lower down so having this extra powerful unit is not a big issue.