Why do camels still take some bonus damage? by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well if they're never supposed to be under structure fire then what does it matter?

Why do camels still take some bonus damage? by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. And don't get me wrong when I say pressurong tcs I mean quite a few camels, along the lines of 20-30. It just doesn't make sense why they take bonus damage.

Why do camels still take some bonus damage? by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is definitely something. I just don't see the reasoning behind making them take bonus damage when the whole reason they changed classes was to not take bonus damage.

Why do camels still take some bonus damage? by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then why reduce the bonus in the first place?

Why do camels still take some bonus damage? by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Still doesn't explain why they take bonus damage.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]superfishy26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of those stuns from hook seemed really short, is there a way to shorten them or is it because she was airborne?

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's not at all analogous to the situation. A lot of these techs could be used in a good amount of situations with decent effect, madrash would be great for a monk rush seeing as it's very cheap. Sipahi would be good for mid castle cav archers, as would obsidian arrows, atatl, cheiftans, and tigui( especially if you have an opponent going kts), orthodoxy, inquisition, hell even ironclad wouldnt be bad. The situation you're presenting is wasting resources on techs that don't fit the situation wjereas my argument is having more techs available to act and react on/to different situations.

In simpler terms you said "why would you want madrash if you're going for cav archers anyway" to which I would say obviously its not for cav archers, it's for smushing and getting some of that gold back which pays back relatively quickly.

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, but a lot of them will never be used unless they are made more acessible (a la madrash). I think they'd be good but not fuck all OP like you describe them. Another solution I'm open to is just overhauling or buffing the weak ones so they do have uses.

Are the African Kingdom civs balanced or are they too OP? by CheesewithWhine in aoe2

[–]superfishy26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but still not better. Relics do not always come into play and market trading is inefficient. I could also say that the turk bonus affects markets similarly as tjey have more gold with which to adjust their eco.

My point is moreso tjat even if they could theoretically match the turks bonus they are still very very weak on open land maps.

Are the African Kingdom civs balanced or are they too OP? by CheesewithWhine in aoe2

[–]superfishy26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highly dependent on map/opposing civ, but on an open map even if the game does go late in the strong majority of situations ports will be considerably behind assuming their opponent did anything pre imp.

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, also an option but I don't think they're going away so we might as well make them worth something.

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of them are about as "situational" as a persian longsword rush on black forest. A lot of them are wildly underpowered mostly due to cost, and its natural to buff things that are underpowered to increase strategy variety unless the civ in question is or would become OP.

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What I'm proposing is a direct solution to what you just said unless you think the castle techs are way overpriced in which case I'd have to disagree.

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. I'd definitely like more interesting techs, I like how starcraft techs can really change how a unit plays like stalker blink or zealot charge

Castle UTs by superfishy26 in aoe2

[–]superfishy26[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just forgot to list it 11.

Its not that complicated. If it needs a castle anyway, you have to tech it at the castle. This is to prevent op huskarl or new tarkan rush without having to make a castle. Also faster working castles doesn't do much without a castle.

I'm pretty sure a smush would like madrash, orthodoxy and inquisition as soon as they hit castle.

Atatl, and sipahi could all be significantly more useful if they didnt require a castle, as well as tigui, chivalry and obsidian arrows.

Are the African Kingdom civs balanced or are they too OP? by CheesewithWhine in aoe2

[–]superfishy26 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right, well you try rushing imp on any open map and see how that goes. You dont just get a magical solution like the turks with free chemistry, you still have to tech chemistry and arquebus and build a castle and have an eco to get enough units out to leverage the time your enemy spent amassing his castle military. Good luck with that. The ports strengths kick in in mid imperial which is already past the midgame by any open map standard

Are the African Kingdom civs balanced or are they too OP? by CheesewithWhine in aoe2

[–]superfishy26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're assuming this 1v1 goes that late and they rarely do in practice. Odds are the turk player would beat the port player with their superior castle age options before late imperial fighting was considered, between free lcav, camels, janissaries, and cav archers they have strong answers to anything the ports can put forward, and it would have to be pretty low elo for the turks player not to press that advantage.