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Hey Guys one thing.
I dont understand one thing in the Gameplay/Balance:

If one xbows shoots to one bowman (NOT WALKING), normaly the bowman is dead only by ONE shot.

However when a Xbow shoots on a serf or sth like that. (NOT WALKING) they need sometimes 2-4 shots.

Mr bo told me that it is like that:

Bowmen: 1 HP
Citizens: 2 HP


If it is really so, i dont understand why? Normaly soldiers in war should have more defense points than a normal citizen in his city or not?
Why should have a serf, who have only a T shirt and not a leather armor more life points than a Bowman going to fight, having a leather armor on it


What do you think about that Guys?


pawel95

In TPR archers were overpowered already, I guess they figured out they would be unbeatable if they had more life points.

Well ok, maybe it is ok like it is now, but I think, citizens should have only 1 HP than,too
However you don´t think that its little bit hard, that you need that much more bowmen than xbows, that you have a chance to win?!. 30 bowmen vs 20 xbows, the bowmen haven´t any chance, for example...


And why Vagabond (milita on a horse) has attackrate of 40 and a pike only 35

Well I think we all agree that archers in their current form are too weak (in Remake).

Crossbowmen also only have 1 lifepoint. Bowmen/crossbowmen are both very powerful units so they need some weakness. If they had two lifepoints they would be quite hard to kill. I think the lifepoints for bowmen/crossbowmen/citizens are balanced well. It's not completely intuitive but I think archers need to be really weak.

We're planning to rebalance bowmen so they are more viable.

Yeah this is clear, i would say.