Koreans would dominate with their towers I believe. Even Vivi seemed like a top player when towers were being built super fast.Could be a fun mod. A balance patch with every civ balanced to it's most OP state in history. See what civ shines most when all of them are in fact OP.
What counter :-DBurmese had sick arambai, but not that broken balance, they had counters
Do you have any videos/recs from those tatoh trushes?Most people are mentioning a unit or a tech that's OP, but I think balance overall was probably the worst around the time AK got released. Most pro players didn't play on HD and WololoKingdoms wasn't popular yet. One of the first tournaments on WK was Enter the Sahara, where TaToH just trushed every game and won, because Arrowslits was stupidly strong in Castle Age. On top of that there was Indians with fully upgraded Arbalests, even stronger villager bonus and Camels that were better than they are now. You also had Malian halbskarls and they saved wood on farms.
And if we're looking at temporary states, the time where units could walk through walls and mangonels would deal 4x the normal damage to tc's was pretty broken :D
Recorded games can be found here although I'm not sure if they still work as it was one of the first WK versions.Do you have any videos/recs from those tatoh trushes?
I remember:
Malians at release, with wood discount on farms and free halb
You are right of courseDid Malians get free Halb upgrade I thought they had halb, but not free and Ethiopians had free pike/halb (now pike is still remaining)