EBOT June 2011 - MP EDU - Feedback needed.

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Post Marian units retain their discount cost. Hastati and Cohors Reformata have stats that make sense cost-wise, now.

Post Marian units actually got better as shortsword lethality was increased to 0.15 for units that use shortswords a lot in melee.

That was far from the only reason, CV. There were lots of other units that simply did not have balanced stats at all, which made them nearly useless.

-Overhand spear cavalry, particularly the Germanic ones. Germanic light horsemen were historically very good and highly praised for their fighting ability despite their simple equipment.
-Germanic "retainer" units seem to have been styled as large-size troops, in reality they were more of a small cadre of highly loyal soldiers. Thus they lost numbers, got higher costs, and got much better stats overall.
-The cost of falcatae/kopides was actually higher than that of axes/maces, but they were weaker. They are now approximately equal in strength.
-Elite infantry cost far too much, their base cost was reduced so on average elite infantry cost about 200 mnai less now. It's not much of a reduction but it's something.
-Elite cavalry had a similar base cost reduction, but it was smaller.
-Several Arabian units had a few boosts.
-Phalanxes had their ridiculous shield stats lowered to 2, which makes sense given the small size of their shields; now mass arrows may have some effect on them. They had a corresponding increase in defense skill. Pike attack was also slightly reduced.

Of course there were other important changes but I won't discuss them all.