Do we really need or even want weaker gunpowder units in the game?
As it stands right now, to get musketeers you have to invest nearly 25000 florins for ONE city to be able to produce them. To move them to the front in a timely manner, this also means that you have to maintain a network of ships. For their extremely high cost, gunpowder units aren't really that powerful, are they?
As it stands right now, gunpowder also lacks any real armor, which means that they still take casualties to bows... but a weaker gunpowder, as far as I can see it, would leave us at MTW the original... with gunpowder infantry a novel weapon that isn't worth the cost and effort to put on the battlefield.
Shouldn't arqubusiers replace bows? Shouldn't muskets be more powerful than crossbows? Thoughts?