Re: New Expansion (updated 20 Feb: Trailer added)
In a late imperial game, a Persian pumping out war elephants will probably need 80-100 farmers to keep it up. Then there are woodcutters to keep those farms going, for extra buildings, and for siege. (War Elephants can't get through walls as well as cannons or rams.) Then you need 40-50 trade carts. In 200 population, this is maybe 60 war elephants max, assuming they don't die too fast. If you're up against someone using heavy scorpions, mamelukes, or a Goth flooding out halberdiers, the scenario gets more dire. War elephants can't act on their own so well anyway, and this is only for extremely late imperial play in any case. I think they are fine as is.
War wagons are situations. Great against anything with a pierce attack, great against buildings, great against most infantry and cataphracts. But they die to cavalry in a pretty big way. They are just too big. You can't mass them as you can other archers to protect them from the wiles of an enemy paladin flood.
Regardless, the main reason Koreans are so powerful is their siege ongers.
In a late imperial game, a Persian pumping out war elephants will probably need 80-100 farmers to keep it up. Then there are woodcutters to keep those farms going, for extra buildings, and for siege. (War Elephants can't get through walls as well as cannons or rams.) Then you need 40-50 trade carts. In 200 population, this is maybe 60 war elephants max, assuming they don't die too fast. If you're up against someone using heavy scorpions, mamelukes, or a Goth flooding out halberdiers, the scenario gets more dire. War elephants can't act on their own so well anyway, and this is only for extremely late imperial play in any case. I think they are fine as is.
War wagons are situations. Great against anything with a pierce attack, great against buildings, great against most infantry and cataphracts. But they die to cavalry in a pretty big way. They are just too big. You can't mass them as you can other archers to protect them from the wiles of an enemy paladin flood.
Regardless, the main reason Koreans are so powerful is their siege ongers.