Quote Originally Posted by fallen851
QM and Ludens you're wrong. That isn't a personal attack, it is a fact.
Your accusation that the EB team is unable to rationally discuss their system is a personal attack.

The EB team has clear ideas of how thing should work, so they are not going to be swayed by a few observations that something is wrong. Only when you can prove that a situation regularly gives illogical results then they might change their mind. For example after repeated complaints that peltasts were overpowered compared to hastati and thurephoroi Qwerty reexamined their stats. I don't know if they have been corrected in 0.74 but he did announce they are going to be weakened. However, AFAIK no-one ever did systematic archery tests to prove they were indeed underpowered. If you did I, for one, would be happy to see them. Unfortunatly, it is very hard to balance cavalry charges in 1.2; and this is a rather futile excersize anyway since the mod is going to move to 1.5 in the next build.

Lastly, if I interpret Qwerty and econ21 correctly, they did not say that under similar circumstances unit performance can differ significantly (which is obviously wrong) but that in a campaign differing circumstances can have a very pronounced effect on performance.