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[Emacz]

1 hour ago, RangerK said:

SPEED MISMATCHES with Seleucid Heroes:

FIRST ISSUE -  Seleucid Elephant Hero (Seleucis I)
He moves at 9.0, but he boosts Elephant movement to 10.8, so he can't keep up with the elephants he's boosting.

There is still some advantage to having him boost the elephants for local movement, even if he can't keep up, but I think it would be overall better to increase his speed to 10.8.
 

SECOND ISSUE - Seleucid Cav Hero (Antiochus III)
This one is more debatable.

He moves 18, which is the standard for Hero melee cavalry.

However, in 0.28, Seleucid Cataphract speed has been nerfed to only 14.4, and Jav Cav speed is 16.2, which is the fastest cavalry unit of the Seleucids.

So the Hero is always outrunning the units he's supposed to be boosting by a ridiculous margin.

Historic context:
 

Possible solutions:

1.  Do nothing.  Keep everything the same.
2.  Keep him as a melee cavalry hero, but nerf his movement to 15 or maybe 16.2, matching the jav cav.  This would reduce the issue of him outpacing the cav he is commanding, but it might be strange for him to be unique melee cav hero with a slower speed.
3.  Instead of giving him "spear cav" speed, create a new category of "cataphract speed" and use this to justify the reduction in speed.
4.  (my suggestion)  Change him to a jav cav hero, and lower his speed accordingly.  While the historic record most strongly suggests that he be a melee cav hero, I think there's enough diversity in his history that you can justify him being a jav cav hero.  It would also be cool to have a javelin cavalry hero, as I think he'd be the only one.

can always try out CWA where these changes take place p[retty quickly.

But also if you are playing mostly cav, catas in particular and you put in formation to move,t hey move at the speed of the slowest unit in formation, so then he would stay with the catas and move at their speed.

Edited April 14 by Emacz
added a little more

[Deicide4u]

Are additional voices planned for R29? 

I was inspired by Carthaginian voice lines in DE, but I'm not sure how much of it is made by AI and not historically accurate. 

Edited Friday at 11:26 by Deicide4u
R29, not R28

[Eilat]

Why don't we let the AI build more "cities"? Would distributing structures like houses in different locations instead of concentrating them in one place reduce the risk of complete destruction? I think so. In many matches with more than two players, there were times when I was on peace with all sides, and when one player was about to wipe out the others, I knew next target would be me. I sent my siege troops to where most of their structures were concentrated. When the declaration of war was made, my troops had already destroyed the enemy's structures, and they didn't have time to rebuild due to cavalry raids. This is just my personal experience. I think some people don't like the idea of AI building so much structures, and I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on this.

Edited 1 hour ago by Eilat