I'm actually a little disappointed with the Russian changes. The barracks is nice and so is the strelets vs. light cavalry. What I would've really liked to see though is something that would make halbediers, cav archers and grenadiers a little more useful. As much as I like strelets, opris, cossacks etc. it would be nice to use some other units sometimes. I feel that Russias lack of diverse units is one of their major drawbacks and since their RG units are grenadiers and cav archers it makes them a lot weaker late game, especially with only 1 fort.
The new grenadier tech at the arsenal sounds promising, I just hope it's enough to make them worth building. I think a food cost reduction would also be reasonable, maybe down to 100 food. Don't want to make them too good in colonial though.
As for halbediers, it's hard to say what could be done. The problem with them is their speed but you can't exactly make them faster since it would be kind of stupid. I think giving them a fair bit more hitpoints would be good as you generally associate slow with strong.
I think for cav archers, I think a base damage increase would be pretty reasonable. It really is quite pathetic compared to dragoons and the wind up time doesn't help.
I'm surprised that these units won't receive any treatment in 1.08 since people complain about them all the time. That being said, I think that this will be one of the better patches and I'm still looking forward to it regardless.
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