Do you know what I actually don't understand? Isn't it natural for the Sweboz to die like flies when their soldiers are unarmoured? That's just the nature of their military, I don't really understand why you guys are so obsessed with bringing everyone down to the same level. If you want a "fair" fight with the Sweboz, just make sure you fight a battle in woods or something. Ambushes, anyone? The purpose of this Tournament, as far as I've understood, is just to put all factions together and determine the winner through some restrictions that are the same for all factions. By bringing everyone to the same level, you loose the point of the whole Tournament.
Why give one chevron to factions that have cheap armies? Why give weapon upgrades to factions that have unarmoured troops? And you know who gets the short end of the stick in the end, don't you? I personally don't really care wether I get my arse handed to me (which is most probably going to be the case if I face a chevroned and weapon upgraded army while having less money to spend if the cap is reduced to 35,000), but for Christs' sake try to keep things a bit realistic here. Rules like restricting elites, heavy cavalry and the like is good, I applaud that. Also, don't anyone mention the phalanx exploit because everyone with a considerable amount of sanity knows this is simply a cheat and it's banning is rational to say the least.
Do you want a solution from me? Implement the defender-chooses-his-battleground system. Because I know simply shouting the rule system is wrong is not right and won't get anywere. The only thing I ask you to do, at least, is to simply consider my points and aknowledge that what you're doing is bringing all factions down to the same level. Every faction has its own weaknesses and strong points, that's just the way things are no matter what you want to believe. The Romans didn't beat the Macedonians because they had better quality armies per se (which they did, by the way), but because they were more prepared, has must greater resources and the determination to keep coming back.
But if you still refuse to listen to me and take those fingers out of your ears, I guess there is no other option left that to actually let you see what is going to happen practically if those rules are implemented. And I want to see if you're going to have the guts to admit you were wrong then, because I'm almost certain our victory percentages are going to fall at least above 40%. Just to show you, I'm probably going to fight several battles with some mates with the new rules, and show you the results.
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