Ok then Schild, I will. Here's why I think these changes would make India OP:
1. Because they will have +1 villager and the removal of XP, the wood gathering time is reduced significantly. First off, you have one less villager to have to put on wood. Second, Distributivism gets there faster.
2. Ghurkas will be very powerful in early Fortress. If they made a CIR tech, it would be at an easy building because they aren't going to give India an Arsenal merely for the sake of putting CIR in it. Or, if they put it with the Disciplined upgrade, then you're getting dudes running amok with 2.5x vs. infantry very early in Fortress at what is essentially no extra cost (unless they actually did boost the Disciplined upgrade cost.
3. Mansadbars would be too strong. Yeah, they do need a slight boost but 15% is too much. It's already hard to focus a Mansadbar, so now when they are boosting guys even more, and you can't focus them because they are hard to pick out, you're getting big units right on your ass all the time.
Side note: Shoguns/Daimyos need a nerf. A Shogun is running around with +3000 HP in Imperial, they are too damn strong. Leads to huge Ashigaru that you can't do anything about. Ashigaru already have Howdah like attack, the don't need Veteran Cuira like HP too.
Side note 2: I've always found the FF China's strong suit, not the rush really.
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