I think all axe units could use an increase in attack. Would be nice.
I actually agree.
Either this or Market prices should be changed:
Buying
- 1 Militia costs 11 Corn
1 Axe Fighter costs 23 Corn
1 Sword Fighter costs 37 Corn
Stats-wise
- Axe Fighters only have 1 more Def than Militia
Sword Fighters have 1 more Def and 20 more Attack than Axe Fighters
This means that the cost difference for buying a Sword Fighter instead of an Axe Fighter is very similar to that of buying an Axe Fighter instead of a Militia, but, in addition to the +1 Def, Sword Fighters also get a huge Attack increase.
Iron availability does not matter in this case: either the Market prices are way off or Sword Fighters are too powerful.
But! Pikemen consistently win (seen in an old test) against an equivalent number of Sword Fighters, both with and without ranged support for both; making Sword Fighters weaker would imbalance this and we'd never see Sword Fighters again.
Also, since they are both Iron troops, Market prices don't actually matter here.
So if I'm not wrong the only logical conclusion is that Axe warriors do indeed need a buff.
Also, economy needs a lot of work to run effiecently, I noticed, that wihtout sausages it's really hard to set up and maintain your food economy. It's okay if there's plenty of fish, but then you need to rely only on bread and vine combo later on, so you need to focus on making these early on (it's especially hard and not worth it on 60 PT).
How so?
Bakeries can produce up to 2,38 Loaves per Farm per minute (which equals 2572,01 seconds of feeding per minute), while Butchers' can produce up to 0,88 Sausages per Farm per minute (which equals 1420,83 seconds of feeding per minute).
Even accounting for building space and the more frequent travels to the Inn, the difference is still huge...
I remember when I lost 70milities vs 8knights without a single kills on an opened battlefield. And there wasnt snipers.
At this moment i dont beilive in the mass milities.
70 Militia (20 columns formation) vs 8 Knights (8 columns formation): Militia won 100 out of 100 battles (100%).
I think you were just incredibly unlucky...
Or maybe, since you mentioned Snipers, these Knights had the Retribution bonus, which is a huge boost in this kind of situations...
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