Oh ... my ... god ...
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CIR has always affected Abus Guns. I guarantee it. I use it often and a Musket taking 80 instead of 40 damage is hard to explain otherwise.
With the patch changes, a CIR Abus Gun will have 2.5x against heavy infantry.
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So, Iroquois now basically steamroll right over Ottomans. We're gonna reduce Elite Forest Prowler ranged damage by 2.5, but we'll take away 30% ranged resistance from the only unit that actually gave you a chance against Prowler spam. Enjoy!
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A 1.5x bonus against heavy infantry for Abus Guns?! Holy mother of Kerensky!
With CIR on top of that just Colonial Abus Guns will be doing 100 damage a shot! 120 damage for Veteran. 150 damage for Guard. Yeeeeouch.
You want to basically make it impossible for Portuguese and British to compete with Ottomans late game? It's not like anyone else spams heavy infantry ...
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A 0.75x penalty against artillery is actually fine, since I can stil kill Falconets cost-effectively. It just takes 7 instead of 5 now.
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You shouldn't have touched Military Reforms. It's the Dutch economy powering them that was the real culprit.
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The Forest Prowler change is quite good. Except if you're Ottoman, that is.
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Brits ... welcome back to 1v1. And you can stop worrying about Musket/Jan/Tomahawks rushes.
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Spain got a very slight nerf. Maybe it's enough. We'll see.
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Cossacks and Uhlans got 10% extra ranged resistance. What about Hussars? ES can't possibly be under the impression that Hussars are actually cost effective units ...
Overall, the patch is just the ES style. Get in a few of the right fixes that were necessary ... get in some other ones that nobody requested but are actually a pretty good idea ... and change a whole lot of other stuff that once again will turn the game on it's head.
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