*I would expect there to be appropriate balancing to these steppe civs if they were given steppe lancers.*
We all know that the Steppe Lancers are broken but they are going to be heavily nerfed. From my point of view it seems the forgotten Empires team seems really hesitant to change hardly anything about the vanilla civs even though the game has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Common units are supposed to unite similar geographical civs. Giving a common unit to only some of these civs but not others really hurts the consistency of the game. It would be like if the Incas didn’t get eagle warriors or the Vietnamese didn’t get elephants. I’m just wondering what the community thinks about only giving 2 civs a common unit but not other steppe civs.
My theory is that if there was a steppe civ expansion then all the civs would be given steppe lancers and it wouldn’t even be a thought that only some should get SL but not others. Since there are already steppe civs the FE team doesn’t want to balance the older civs to make SL work. I don’t think it would change the identity of the civs but maybe they think people don’t like change and want the old civs to stay the exact same way from 20 years ago more or less.
We all know that the Steppe Lancers are broken but they are going to be heavily nerfed. From my point of view it seems the forgotten Empires team seems really hesitant to change hardly anything about the vanilla civs even though the game has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Common units are supposed to unite similar geographical civs. Giving a common unit to only some of these civs but not others really hurts the consistency of the game. It would be like if the Incas didn’t get eagle warriors or the Vietnamese didn’t get elephants. I’m just wondering what the community thinks about only giving 2 civs a common unit but not other steppe civs.
My theory is that if there was a steppe civ expansion then all the civs would be given steppe lancers and it wouldn’t even be a thought that only some should get SL but not others. Since there are already steppe civs the FE team doesn’t want to balance the older civs to make SL work. I don’t think it would change the identity of the civs but maybe they think people don’t like change and want the old civs to stay the exact same way from 20 years ago more or less.
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