Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian
I agree with Orda. HA should stay the size they are. Factions that have themusually didn't have a problem recruiting them. They are already smaller than regular archers and much more expensive, which pretty much balance out things. HA weren't like European heavy cavalry, and armies who did use them, tended to use them in much larger numbers than Europeans used heavy cavalry. They could use a bit of tweaking though, to reduce the micromanagement. Somehow RTW:BI was much more friendly in this regard, IMHO.

Ok, will wait and see, but I think reducing the size of HA is a bad idea, both from historical and gameplay point of view. It's not enough to say "eastern factions will get some new units to counter improved westerners". HA should be effective as they were...

rofl HA in BI were so overpowered it was unbeleivable. The standard multiplayer rules were max 2 HA no CC because of this. Sounds to me you just want an easy game, as if the AI didn't make the SP battles like playing a retarded monkey already

If you do the maths there is actually no difference between the +25% accuracy and -25% unit size, they have exactly the same firepower (although if it's like LTC 3.1 HA will get a boost due to unit stats being increased and unit stats of almost all the other units being decreased.) They may all die quicker but they will kill quick as well making it almost identical except for the fact that all the other units defense will be weaker.

So far I'm liking most of the changes, althuogh i've only done unit vs unit tests thus far. I'm just about to play online with a clanmate to properly gauge the balance although so far I feel some of the 2 handed units are overpowered although the new normality for missiles may counter this.

Another worry is the lowered armour values will decrease the worth of AP units in general and i can see this has been overcompensated for with infantry, however English Longbows and AP cav still seem to have the same level of stats comparative to all the other units. A change I would like to see however is a slight range increase of Longbows and possibly Composite bow Archers to reflect thier true range if there's still time, but again this may imbalance things with England especially looking to become an intensely strong faction.