Lack of variety and special use

[Bwaho]

Lack of variety and special use, this is a very fragile matter that decided if the gameplay will be good or not.

Having too many units that are too much like eachother takes away the unique feel of training different units.

If the attack stats are nearly the same for 2 different hoplite units then you will naturally get the cheaper one.

using these rough standards for different units I can show you what I mean:

*Attack
*Defending Skill
*Armor
*Moral

Athenian Hoplite:
*Attack - 5
*Defending Skill - 5 a well-rounded hoplite
*Armor - 3
*Moral - 3

Athenian Militia Hoplite:
*Attack - 2
*Defending Skill - 1 very poor hoplites, but cheap and large in numbers
*Armor - 0
*Moral - 1

Spartan Hoplite:
*Attack - 6
*Defending Skill - 5 extremly efficient hoplites, only setback is the weak armor!
*Armor - 1
*Moral - 5

well you get the point :original:


It should be like a game of chess, each piece has it's own advantages and place

[spirit_of_rob]

We havent actualy put alot of work into unit balancing yet but dont worry the point that you are trying to get across is somehting that is important to us

[Sparton Matticus]

I hope you set the defense really high of alot of the units, especially hopilites. This will make battles longer right? and making the mod more realistic?

[Gelgoog]

well lack of variety also means you just need better tactics and generalship.

[spirit_of_rob]

Im not really sure where this idea of lack of variety has come from... okay so most factions use hoplites as the base of their armed forces but there are plenty of different style units to use in conjunction with them, i think there is more variation in these armies than most mods have between the armies of the Hellenistic kingdoms for example.

[Sparton Matticus]

The other factions like the persa, and the cathaginians will be the major alternatives in the variety sense of units. I dont think you can do much with greek cities, except using variations of hopilites giving each one different strenghs and weekness, but you have the other units like archers, marine units, horse units. And then you have the ZOR department so in theory you can recruit lots more units depending where you are on the map.