So he hits Fortress, and I think to myself, yep, 40 seconds to Spahi, starting thinking man. Pikes? Nope, Spahi will eat 'em alive, and then ask for second helpings. Rods? Ditto, though I might get a couple Spahi dead in the process.
Oh, I know, why don't I build a stable (OMG! Build a military building as Spain?!) and train some Dragoons?
So I do. Sure as rain, here comes 5 Spahi and 4 Hussars to raid my villagers (ofcourse I'm not stupid, I move them out of the way). He runs into my base, and meets with 9 Dragoons (I didn't have the gold for the 10th So the poor bastard thinks, hey, I got Jans and Abus now, why don't I try raiding with the Spahi/Hussars again? So here he comes again, OOPS, my Dragoons, with their crazy speed, simply bypass the Jans and Abus, and another Spahi dies. I keep chasing, and before his cavalry reaches his Jans and Abus, yet In the hopes of saving his Spahi and Hussars, he runs RIGHT past his Jans and Abus and keeps on running for the safety of his Fort. Well my Dragoons Obviously in panick, the guy runs his cav back towards his troops (the Fort isn't killing a thing, I keep the Dragoons moving and the Fort keeps missing them, or doing only minimal damage, when are they going to fix that by the way?). So knowing I'm going to take fire again, I veer away from the Jan/Abus, so the Jans don't touch me and only some of the Abus are able to fire. I then Then the Dragoons wave their pistols in the air in celebration, and go home. Oh yes, the Jans and Abus are stil desperately trying to catch them, but ofcourse as we all know, they never will. So you tell me, how is this unit balanced, when its crazy speed allows it to stay the hell away from its very counters? To add insult to injury, even when it So honestly, if my opponent brings a "balanced" army, with units that, on paper, should cover each other's weaknesses, shouldn't it work? How come the end result is nearly the same as if those supporting units weren't even present at all? And that's not the end of the story. Later on, when the poor guy shipped in his two Falconets, those remaining 6 Dragoons Out of the 12 Dragoons I made that game (I thought he'd be making more Falconets and I so did not want to build Culverins), only 4 died in the entire process. Now tell me they are balanced.
Again in desperation, he runs back right across his Jan/Abus and back to the Fort, the guy is obviously dumbfounded. So not even caring anymore, I chase his last surviving cav right past his troops again and into the Fort (at this point I don't really care about the Dragoons' fate, they've done their job). As they run past, another Dragoon dies (oh noes, a single one!), and yet another one gets killed by the Fort before I kill the rest of the cav and escape.
You know
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