How Good Do You Think 2-Handers Should Be?

[Carl]

Just had a jam on the forums Dopp? I did too just after my last post.

Let me look at DFK stats and get back to you as i agree somthing about their stats looks a littile screwy to me if they are the same as late era units, thought the distribution changed with late era units.

Allthough like I said Dopp. We CAN'T, (from a balance point of veiw), give 2-Handers better defence IMHO. Or REDUCE the defence of S&S units, it would kill the missile balance between the two. Even early era S&S are supposed to be somewhat more missile resistant than the best 2-Handers. Lets not forget it would also turn 2-Handers into unstobable killing machines that can devestate multipiule S&S units. That one of the bighgest issues with cav pre-sheild fix. The can rip through multipiule units with few losses.

With your proposal I would expect to see 2-Handers rip through 3 units of S&S units with baerly moderate losses. As it is now they'd actually get beaten with heavy losses to the enemy. Also, Defence sems to effect charge resistance so cav would be much less effective.

Basssiclly your propsed 2-handers would become near unstopable death machines that even missle and heavy cav would struggle to counter, that sounds a lot like cav pre-sheild fix. And thus rings a lot of alarm bells for me.

Or am I not understanding what you saying, (you are a touch confusing, are you crying foul about DFK being so similar to DCK, or about DCK having such a high defence? I've tried to cover both in my post but i'm ot sure which you mean. I agree that DFK are a bit high on the defence though ATM as they are much furthar ahead of DFK in the tech tree).