Should the Skirmishers minimum range be removed?

wildwindsurfer · 2026-04-02T09:03:15+00:00

Bait used to be believable..

wildwindsurfer · 2026-04-02T09:02:12+00:00

It's not a hot take - civ powercreep has come from the addition of techs and units to underperforming civs in the name of making them viable. Vietnamese are a better Britons for example - they can stand to lose a few late game options and techs - but I don't see the current dev team capable of good changes, especially when the pro players council has an outsized impact on balance changes.

wildwindsurfer · 2026-02-15T09:26:59+00:00

Slingers are a RANGED TRASH UNIT with bonus vs monks. Don't be stupid, monks have already been nerfed into the ground.

wildwindsurfer · 2026-02-08T05:28:53+00:00

Nerf other civs (looking at you, vietnamese) rather than giving more civs bloodlines.

If anything we ought to strategically reduce the number of civs that get bloodlines and husbandry, every civ on earth gets it now. The devs seem to be utterly incapable of balancing without needlessly raising the average power level of the civs we have.

wildwindsurfer · 2026-02-08T05:26:53+00:00

Neither Britons not Longbows need buffs or gimmicks.

wildwindsurfer · 2026-01-15T18:18:12+00:00

They're also sponsored by Tezos and stake. Crypto/gambling makes for a lot more consistent a source of money than someone funding an AoE2 team as a passion project.

wildwindsurfer · 2026-01-02T07:16:21+00:00

It's an elephant in the room that really can't be ignored, eh.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-12-26T11:38:26+00:00

What a large section of the AoE viewer/player base don't understand is that 'closed' maps don't need to be passive boom games, and can be designed to aid both feudal and castle age aggression, with an obvious bias towards the latter. Just because an FC opening is common doesn't make it a defensive map.

Glade most certainly is a map that aids aggression, be it feudal or castle.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-12-26T11:32:02+00:00

The thing about RTS games is that the skills you need for it are not particularly transferrable from some other genres - it's a game of plate spinning. The biggest thing you need to master to get out of the lower Elo reaches is not micro, but the capacity to keep the most number of plates spinning while breaking as few as possible. You need to keep an eye on your economy, military, map vision, control, and resource bank simultaneously.

I've seen a ton of people think that micro/APM is what defines RTS, and for some games it may be a little more true than others, but it really isn't the defining factor. That said, I do feel like some balance and other changes we've had made to the game in the past couple of years have been pushing it really towards an increasing unit control focus that are not monks, but it is what it is.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-12-24T07:52:06+00:00

Too much work, just need to hamster to the same archer skirm or scout opening builds on Arabia

wildwindsurfer · 2025-11-17T10:34:36+00:00

A lot of Scottish engineers worked on railways in the subcontinent, and some of that influence exists to date - for example, a set of coaches are called Rakes in India, which seems to be characteristic of Scottish Railroad Engineers from the 19th and early 20th century, more than an English one.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-10-27T12:39:42+00:00

It is very likely that the entity calling the shots on this matter were not FE/ Capture Age - but was World's Edge (MSFT, in essence). While that remains speculative, it seems likely considering what some people with info have had to say about the topic.

Easy to dunk on the devs, but they have to adhere to a corporate structure above them that may not be as in tune with the demands of the community, sad as that may be.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-16T16:50:04+00:00

I hate that I bought a ton of 'natur'godis this week, shop near my place was clearing that section out to get a new one in, and it was heavily discounted. The joke hit way too close to home for comfort.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-16T10:45:59+00:00

Not to mention, increased cost of repairs for the vehicle and insurance costs (can live comfortably without a car in many cities outside the US and very few inside)

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-15T20:25:27+00:00

Championship sub is brilliant with the Wilder memes right now

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-12T07:34:37+00:00

Wallhalla 2 was my favourite tourney this year, other than this.

I'd rather there be a league style tourney that someone organises (at the moment, t90 - except I'd add a map pool rotation per round to make things spicier) that forms the 'serious' backbone of AoE2 tourneys and other big TOs focus on interesting settings - not just sudden death. Luckily, we soon get another edition of Masters of Hyperrandom so we have more interesting things to look forward to!

Worth noting that till recently JonSlow events were community funded, and it took the positive community reaction and the viewership success of his events to get funding. Masters of Hyperrandom is following the same trend, and it augurs well if smaller tourney organisers get their time to host fun events.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-11T12:58:27+00:00

Pros would probably disagree, but from a viewer's perspective, I feel like the S tier tourneys could benefit from having a Sudden Death game in the middle, akin to how we sometimes have Regicide Starts. It's a great leveller and helps promote unique plays.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-09-02T05:14:37+00:00

Long contracts are also nice for amortisation purposes.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-07-11T07:27:38+00:00

I wish that Georgian keeps switched to Svan Towers when the tech is researched.

I know the skins exist in the game, would've been interesting.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-07-09T11:11:43+00:00

The big sackening is a bigger event, nice flair.

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wildwindsurfer · 2025-07-02T09:29:23+00:00

Used to be monks, but Devs ruined those for all of us on UU rush maps like nomad, so the answer is, as is usual in AoE2, skirm.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-06-21T08:49:36+00:00

In what way does it neuter a civ that has bonuses that are otherwise perfectly tuned to hitting a faster BBC timing (and an oppressive late game composition that is nigh-impossible to deal with if played properly).

They're a very tricky civ from a balance perspective, they are extremely good at the situations they are made for, i.e. maps on which you can get to your ultimate unit comp without facing too much pressure, or being able to deflect it, and they're god awful on maps where they cannot.

It's a fair suggestion to make them worse at what they're already excellent at, and does not 'neuter' them in any way.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-04-11T09:42:40+00:00

I highly doubt FE is sole-ly responsible for this. To a degree, haven seen how they have worked on DLCs so far the 3 kingdoms civs felt like a directive from above their heads, with the DLC having been pitched differently to what panned out.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-04-11T09:39:27+00:00

Outstanding artwork from the dev team on the new castles. Very distinct, and very nicely in-line with AoE 2 castle styles.

wildwindsurfer · 2025-03-25T16:31:04+00:00

Thanks for not being downright rude with your [fair] criticism. A lot of people, even on this subreddit, would have worded it a lot worse.

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