Chinese Heavy Cannons

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Chinese Heavy Cannons

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I don't really get why China has access to 2 different heavy cannons that are treated as two different units when u select them together; one from factory and one from consulate, the former of which is listed as costing export and doesn't have an upgrade bizarrely.
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Consulate units are automatically upgraded to imperial stats when reaching the imperial age.

I agree, however, that it's both strange and inconvenient that the Factory, available through the Chinese consulate, doesn't itself grant consulate units. Maybe something EP could change? Although it makes it slightly stronger (free imperial upgrade for the Factory Heavy cannon that they didn't get before), it seems like a minimal balance effect to correct something that seems like a design flaw.

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A free imperial upgrade for regular heavy cannon seems a bit unfair. The whole point of the consulate is that it's hard to crank out a lot of units because export is a finite resource; free upgrades are given to compensate.
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The alternative would be to have the chinese factory have a imp cannon upgrade that makes the two cannons the same, though that itself kind of makes the consulate cannons obsolete unless you lose the factory.
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i'm confused, which 2 different kinds of heavy cannons do they get?

you mean the crows?
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umeu wrote:i'm confused, which 2 different kinds of heavy cannons do they get?

you mean the crows?

They get two different versions of the Heavy Cannon. Both is called Heavy Cannon and looks identical, but the consulate ones upgrade automatically, while the factory ones (china gets a factory via russian consulate) have to be upgraded manually.
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duckzilla wrote:
umeu wrote:i'm confused, which 2 different kinds of heavy cannons do they get?

you mean the crows?

They get two different versions of the Heavy Cannon. Both is called Heavy Cannon and looks identical, but the consulate ones upgrade automatically, while the factory ones (china gets a factory via russian consulate) have to be upgraded manually.


The ones you get at the factory dont have an upgrade as far as i am aware of.
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As far as I know, the cannons from factory get the same imperial upgrade as those from any european factory, costing 1500wood/gold.
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was this in EP? cause im pretty sure that it doesn't have the upgrade in RE

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