[EB] Whats Wrong?

[Kival]

I would not discourage to use steppe at all but one should not hope for a barbarian faction to fight six times against you only to loose. I've a general "homerule" not to play against a player in tourney anymore if one got 2 (or perhaps 3) points out of this matches.

Not all matchups were meant to be. Simple as, if you ask me. There's only so much you can do, because this entire issue is like most: it's like a hydra. You fix one spot, ten other issues arise.

I do not have a problem with it. It's just a fact. One could consider not to allow steppe vs barbarians but that could be quite harsh so I would not really propose it. If one wants to play more often against a player refusing to play against steppe anymore, he could fight non-steppe. I don't see the problem. Is any player here who had problems to get some matches in this tourney so far? If it is just about some changes for horse archers... one can propose them in the edu-thread. If one has viable points I think it will be changed accordingly.

Getai are probably the only barbarian faction that can take on the steppes.

They can use steppe themselves and have some trustworthy archers, so that's not really suprising.