Hey fam,
Been a while since I played but I'm really happy to see all the incredible work that was put into 2.35 across the board! Including the speed bump to the Illyrian Phalanx
One thing I noticed that seemed unusual was the massive +5 armor bonus to (a) nearly all bataroi equivalent celtic swordsmen during the 1st reforms, (b) all celtic and galatian retainer units (infantry and cav) during the 2nd reforms. Last patch, the bataroi units only gained +1 armor during 1st reforms, and retainer units gained +2 during 2nd reforms.
I guess I have a few questions:
- What justified the +5 bump?
- If it's because of the proliferation of chainmail, why don't galatian colonists get it? Or cisalpine swordsmen? And why do bataroi get it now that their reform models only get linen as opposed to chainmail (per the patch notes)?
- Isn't it kind of unbalanced? Wouldn't it have made more sense to just create new units with greater costs available during these period? I mean, the costs of equipping entire units of professional and retainer soldiers with that much mail would surely justify raising their price to thorakitai levels.
Personally, bataroi have been my favorite units in the game ever since EBI, so I'm not really complaining. Might do another Boii game for more ahistoric bataroi spamming <3.