Changes to Horsemen

[Classic-Burger]

3 hours ago, Outis said:

Chariots need trample damage IMHO.

Indeed

[Classic-Burger]

0.5 pop can be used to favor more infantry units.

But we would do that in the second phase or late 1. The ideal would be to introduce technologies in the first phase, so the development is more noticeable.

That in the first phase 1 cap pop is used and then 0.5.

Obviously, this favors CS infantry units. It's one of the ways infantry is favored in this game.

The other thing is to tell people that the stirrup did not yet exist. At least in the West/Near East/Africa.

[Perzival12]

16 hours ago, Classic-Burger said:

The other thing is to tell people that the stirrup did not yet exist. At least in the West/Near East/Africa.

Which is the entire world that 0ad covers. And yeah, stirrups (which allowed the couched lance charge) weren’t invented till the late medieval ages, at which point armor and metal weapons were already beginning to be replaced by arqubuses (guns).