I was talking with a couple regular players and we'd like to see a few changes made to the accuracy values, which would, in our opinion better balance the current state of EBO.
1. Reduce the accuracy values for horse archer units. As is, units like Dahae Riders and even Scythian Riders shred a lot of cheaper foot archer units which have to constantly walk back and forth after men die while HA keep firing.
2. Increase slinger accuracy. The value for levy slinger accuracy is 0.14. The value for levied archers is 0.066. That is a world of difference. Slingers should lose to archers but currently they hardly even damage them. Professional slingers (Balearics/Rhodians) are also worth less than they should be with an accuracy of 0.09 which is still much less than that of levied foot archers. I think an increase is warranted in this case to 0.09 for levy slings and 0.04 for the more professional ones.
3. Some javelin units are also rather inaccurate. While javelins perform well against units that are standing still, moving targets net very few kills for medium and lower jav units. I think their values are identical to slinger values and may need a tweaking, although not as extreme as the slinger change.
Let me know what everyone thinks about this, especially gg2.
And as a reminder for those unfamiliar with the projectiles file, the lower the accuracy value, the more accurate the unit.
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