If nothing, they should at least consider reverting army train points.

Anything that can potentially give Japan some boost to contain early pressure is sound idea. 250 export to Toshugu is reasonable. Would you keep way of the bow nerf?

Hazza54321 wrote:Russia is less harder compared to aztecs for jap

In current state yeah, if Russia gets 255f vills back I think they will both be almost impossible mu for Japan.

Russia is perhaps Jap hardest MU after India (more than vs Aztecs). Then again, unlike vs Aztecs, I think aggressive builds that involve jap consulate and aim to punish a rush can actually work vs Russia. And if Russia doesnt rush I dont see them being at any advantage vs Japan. It is also possible...

I was analyzing cumulative effect throughout whole game. If you build 2 max 3 BH, thats max 10-15 pop space, which equals 1 or 1,5 house. That's nothing in terms of time and resource saving. I agree, 255f vills was actually an adequate buff. I would would continue buffing Russia's age 3 unit shipmen...

Then we are back to one and only 255f buff, I don't see other options.

In case Russia gets 255f vills back, China and especially Japan need to be buffed accordingly, because it will be even harder to hold rush from Russia, which is already a problem for mentioned civs...

They're honestly bad ideas. In fact, if there were room for more nerfs those would probably be the immediate candidates. In particular, shrines are not easy to kill, I don't know where people get that impression. It is far harder to damage Japan through shrine hunting than just vill hunting to any ...

Russia struggles with pop space because batch system, so upping BH pop space sounds like a good idea. On the other hand, how many BH do we build in regular game, 2 max 3 right? If you consider it like that, its very small, almost unnoticable buff. Anyone considered buffing BH range damage slightly? ...

Shrine hp buff sounds like a great idea, I suggested it more than once.

China's colonial is just bad. No musk unit, weak hand cav. Only redeeming factor are chu ko nu's, which are better than xbow's, thats all. Like gamevideo said, no one is playing prolonged colo with China. Aizamk done it few times, without notable success. I don't think there are unexplored options w...

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WickedCossack wrote:Unnecessary sowar cost reduction

What cost reduction? I see people mentioning this, but it isnt in patch notes, and the price is the same as always o.O

From 80f, 80c to 75f, 75c.

Its just a slight buff. Sowars are pretty weak without cards, they are not worth more than 150 resources anyway.

I generally agree with results, except i wouldn't rate Otto and Iro so low. Currently Japan and Russia are among weakest civs...

Imo, revert everything back to RE sioux, but keep BR nerf and Cetan buff. Hold on, that's exactly what EP1 did, and Sioux were considered unplayably terrible with those changes... Maybe people underestimated them? maybe change the numbers a bit more on BR and Cetan to make them viable while not op?...

Great work guys, ep is getting better and better.

I would like to report small bug. Positional triangle is visible in lower part of the Gran Chaco map image. All other images are ok, someone probably missed it when taking screenshots....

Hopeless mu for Russia, like most of them anyway....

When can we expect official release?

Moving inf improvement cards to fortress or colonial will create another France and Dutch clone, which we don't need....

I don' like Port buff either, but in their case 5f clearly meant something. Anyway, I am glad almost all universally agree Russia needs some kind of buff.....

86.6f per villager is the sweet spot and 85f is not? Anything less than 5f per villager is clearly not relevant. Change starts to be significant from 5f and on. 255f is basically the minimum perceptible buff . Many claim it's too much, while 260 is in your opinion insignificant? In Ports case it wa...

Garja wrote:260 can't be divided by 3 with an integer as result.

It doesn't matter, 260 could be sweet spot we all want....

One of the rare mu's where Russia actually has chance atm....

Garja wrote:255f would be nice boost for Russia but it's not like they're that bad at the moment. It's basically the difference between making them decent and actually competitive (aka scary).

It doesn't have to be 255, it could be 260....

I feel like they are stylistically disadvantaged. Their strength lies in long colonial games which almost never happen, they can get early map control but it is not so strong because of the amount of starting res in base which means your opponent can age and push out with a tech advantage, all in r...

Rikikipu wrote:Planning to fix map issues tomorrow. So far we have :
- fixing water flags on malaysia
- colorado edge issue
- fixing wadmalaw cows
- iowa pathing

Anything else ?

When will you release them? Along with new ep version?

Russia lost almost every single mu on tourney, even in very skilled hands. Doesn't that say enough, or you still think Russia has undiscovered potential which no one knows? We need cheaper vill batch back....