Knew someone was going to break that debuff tech sooner or later

Really? I kinda like the Berber horses. Guess I haven’t done a detailed stat comparison. Nat tps are less useless though with Africans simply because of passive influence which isn’t normally true of civs that got 3 tp shipments before and if that settlement has a helpful economic tech all the bette...

I personally don't think influence is much needed at all for Hausa. Most influence units are niche and can't be massed while the standard units are actually good and form a complete combo. Influence techs don't seem very useful either. Those which find concrete use (fast aging and euro artillery) a...

I'm not sold on 4 vills. Surely 700 wood or 700 coin or palace + 300 influence is stronger. It takes 4 vills nearly 6 minutes at base gather rates not counting walk time and all other things to gather that much wood and cost population, never liked 4 vill, 5 vill yeah sure for civs who get it, but 4...

Atleast 1 of the African civs is going to be much more stronger than pre-nerfed Sweden. Once people learn the builds. I just played a game vs Samby where had 4x TP at 3:50 (GL to any ATP strats XD), meanwhile he outgathered my Russia by 1.2k resources at 8 min game, and outmassed my rush. I have se...

and spain logi still delivers 625 res instant in your bank... what a bad joke It's not too unreasonable now tho since age 2 cards are worth 700 resources and u also had to sacrifice a slower age up Anything less then logi is not worth Don’t forget you don’t need to gather the crates and you can sen...

power creep on all of these units is dumb, I cba to compile it all but here's some 32 siege musketeer units (normal musks have 20 siege). 1-pop raiders have 46 siege b.c. 23 @ 1.5 ROF (cossacks have 15 @ 3 ROF, hussars have 20 @ 3 ROF, steppe have 24 @ 3 ROF but they suck, and raiders are good, and...

Just downloaded the update and bought the expansion: crashed to desktop after 3 minutes when building a deck with Hausa. Really? edit: just happened again. Both times it crashed when I clicked on one specific card. edit: third crash -> the card is Fulani Archer Combat. Whatever you do, stay away fr...

I'm playing with Hausa too so nice to see a few games, it's not Benin or Yoruba but they are sorta there :D. Still not quite in the right frame of mind to do my usual exploring but it does seem very geared towards defensive play with all that passive xp or influence income they can get. Guess that's...

aztec has 4 anticav units, and 3 rather mediocre scaling units alongside them, some unit needs to be reimagined as a not-anticav unit in other news, these african farms can be (almost) free amd still generate build xp, this is fine Yeah, they only get 7 units and 4 of them are anti cav? Like really...

Just downloaded the update and bought the expansion: crashed to desktop after 3 minutes when building a deck with Hausa. Really? edit: just happened again. Both times it crashed when I clicked on one specific card. edit: third crash -> the card is Fulani Archer Combat. Whatever you do, stay away fr...

aztec has 4 anticav units, and 3 rather mediocre scaling units alongside them, some unit needs to be reimagined as a not-anticav unit in other news, these african farms can be (almost) free amd still generate build xp, this is fine Yeah, they only get 7 units and 4 of them are anti cav? Like really...

https://clips.twitch.tv/GoodRespectfulPenguinSeemsGood-rDMcOfaHb1nIy0gM Good patch so far , sometimes we are not allowed to go age 2 , i think we gonna win more and more playrs with those insane update ! So far i've played 1 game , and i had a bug , and i watched 1 aizamk game with a bug !! It's no...

aztec has 4 anticav units, and 3 rather mediocre scaling units alongside them, some unit needs to be reimagined as a not-anticav unit in other news, these african farms can be (almost) free amd still generate build xp, this is fine Yeah, they only get 7 units and 4 of them are anti cav? Like really...

Is for historical accuracy they didn't buff aztek or what? i think people talk about aztec wrong. it's not categorically an underpowered civ. the rush is quite strong. it's just an extremely one-dimensional and boring civ that can only do one thing Could not disagree more xD Curiously could you ela...

Well Japan is still going to suck all the fun out of the game for me with its stupid crutch design nonsense. Balanced it might be, but ugh. Anyway nothing new from me.

Interesting that they made dominions age 2 again after otherwise nerfing them hard. Not sure that’s a good idea but ah well.

Japan in general is a stupidly designed crutch civ and needs a complete rework. It sucks all the fun out of the game for me, overpowered or not. Personally I think yabusame were fine for a civ that lacks culverins, though I’d have probably lowered their effectiveness on hand cav more rather then on ...

Ugh there’s no problem with the voice for it being one unit, or at least not that much. The issue is that it’s one voice for every single unit with no exception at all except female villagers. It annoys me a little because the idea of being more aware of native Americans and others is a good cause b...

Still don't know how ethiopia fits in the AoE time frame. Would rather see italians. Still a better fit then US which already had a mechanic that worked to have it in the game. Maybe make it less stupid if you want it used beyond asinine nonsense. The only reason I'm semi against Ethiopia is that t...

A musket having range resist imo is a hard no no. Melee resist isn’t all that useful on them because they either counter anything that gets close to them or outrun it after shooting it silly especially with the ability, so it’s not like you are actually giving anything meaningful up. Melee units (ca...

Yup it’s silly but in strict ‘power level’ terms it’s no more silly then certain other things that are meta and get used over and over and over while other things go unused in consequence. I kinda wanted towers to be more viable but not like this. Keep in mind those wagons come from one building and...

Spanish immigrant pikes are an option for anti cav if you are really desperate but State Militia are so strong and fast they can focus fire hand cav in many cases anyway while the cav just bump against each other. I haven’t tested them myself recently but I’ve heard cowboys are actually pretty good....

[mention]u4550[/mention] You're expecting historical consistency from a game whose purpose is to turn real history into commercial replayable content. They simplify things for the sake of turning history into entertainment. You know before the French Revolution there wasn't much of a national ident...

United States IMO are OP and if not very strong. It won't surprise me to hear people complain about them in the same capacity they do Sweden in a few months time. People haven't figured them out yet but the aoe3 community can be very slow to pick up on new things or styles simply because they don't ...

did engelberg ironworks get rebuffed at some point or did i imagine that up, No, it's been nerfed several times but the build order meta has been polished. Even the patch when everyone thought Swedes was nerfed too much, with what players know now about Swedes, it would have been OP cause cheaper t...