EBOT 2012 July

[gamegeek2]

And the old legacy rules for EBO restricted just how many you could bring and also forced you to bring some infantry IIRC. With no infantry to attack, there is really nothing you can do now except hunker down and wait out an arrow storm. Recreating Carrhae is not the most fun thing to do.

Regardless of whether individual battles are "fun" or not (that of course is entirely personal perception though I generally agree with you), the current situation is an huge improvement over vanilla EB. If this becomes a legitimate problem, where everyone decides that HA is the best strategy and brings 5+ of them to a battle every time they can, then we can address is, but right now I don't feel it's nearly that much of a concern.

However with the legacy rules, every battle using a steppe faction that I played was a Carrhae re-enaction. No exceptions. Now you have flexibility and you have competent foot archers to counter annoying HA.