Garja wrote:In fortress the cassador is the main and meta unit so it makes to buff it. However since the stats are not too bad (and you don't want a cheaper unit to be straight up better than the standar skirm) we could make a cost buff so that Ports still save some food but also trade more efficiently.
Overall i agree with your points. About cassa, i think there’s a few ways to go about them.
-Cost decreased and shipment adjusted accordingly; i’ve read somewhere that zoi didn’t seem to like this option because he would have preferred to avoid changing shipments (not sure why, since Spain received a lot of shipment adjustment too).
-Buffing speed (necessarily with a lower rate of fire than 3); more speed would allow cassa to force on the enemy the intervals at which they trade shots (e.g. cassa shoot, run out of range and then come back in after 3.5 seconds, while the enemy skirms can only shoot at 3.5 rate, losing potential damage).
Probably it was the initial intended design, but the current speed isn’t really enough for this. Also, if this is the route we wanna take i’d even go all the way to RoF of 4 or 4.5 (not my favourite, because of overkill but i guess that it can reward good micro, with additional speed). I guess it would also differentiate them more from besteiros.
-Just normal hp or other stat buff.