I find this patch kinda meh. Not to be party popper but why is there Sicilian nerf from 50% to 33% but Gurjara from 50% to 40% only? I have no idea what to do against this civ. Cavalry is basically out of equation once you reach castle age. Crossbows are fragile and nerfed a bit since new patch. Shrivamsha counter them in small numbers. Pikes are useless castle age unit and somehow it feels as if they were pretty weak against shrivamsha too. And once you are forced to mass pikes in castle it means you are in pretty dire situation anyway.
Pretty similar situation in case of Hindustanis. OP camels that just stomp your knights... On top of that Hindustani have really good eco bonus. This brings question. Why does Hindustani villager discount applies from dark age when similar Persian faster working TC/dock was removed due to being OP? Hindustanis have better tech tree (imho), much better eco bonus, better camels, better hand cannons... yet their eco bonus applies to dark age unlike Persian one.
Burgundian eco nerf could be bigger.
Conquistadors are still one annyoing piece of **** unit. How do you counter that unit in castle age? Especially on nomad and arena style maps?
Briton bow range and faster archer ranges is still very hard to counter in castle age.
Crossbow nerf have indirectly buffed cavalry archer civs. In early castle, mass of crossbows was decent enough to counter them, now its gonna be harder. CA deathball in late castle age is practically impossible to counter to many civs.
Polish farm bonus is still OP. Yes, it is vulnereable on open maps but any semi closed or closed map it becomes ridiculous.
Why civs that do have bracer also get shipwright while those who lack bracer, often lack other naval tech such as shipwright, drydocks, etc. Water maps are very tiresome to play...
And much much more...
Pretty similar situation in case of Hindustanis. OP camels that just stomp your knights... On top of that Hindustani have really good eco bonus. This brings question. Why does Hindustani villager discount applies from dark age when similar Persian faster working TC/dock was removed due to being OP? Hindustanis have better tech tree (imho), much better eco bonus, better camels, better hand cannons... yet their eco bonus applies to dark age unlike Persian one.
Burgundian eco nerf could be bigger.
Conquistadors are still one annyoing piece of **** unit. How do you counter that unit in castle age? Especially on nomad and arena style maps?
Briton bow range and faster archer ranges is still very hard to counter in castle age.
Crossbow nerf have indirectly buffed cavalry archer civs. In early castle, mass of crossbows was decent enough to counter them, now its gonna be harder. CA deathball in late castle age is practically impossible to counter to many civs.
Polish farm bonus is still OP. Yes, it is vulnereable on open maps but any semi closed or closed map it becomes ridiculous.
Why civs that do have bracer also get shipwright while those who lack bracer, often lack other naval tech such as shipwright, drydocks, etc. Water maps are very tiresome to play...
And much much more...