This is meant to help you have enough gold to spam eagles, archers, plumes for as long as you want. Which means Mayans get 15% more Gold and Stone than any other civ. Mayans have 10/20/30% discount on Archers, which helps with saving gold, on top of a really good eco bonus - 15% longer lasting resources bonus. Meso civs are designed to be Gold intensive civs, but they have bonuses to help them before gold runs out I’m really not used to having some 25+ villagers on Gold by mid-castle Age and only 15 or so on Food, but that’s how Meso economies naturally tend to play out.ĭo you guys think that Meso civs are more Gold-intensive than other civs?ĭo you guys think Eagle Warriors could be rebalanced around being a 25f 45g unit? (Perhaps 30f 40g but that would maybe be too strong). How do you guys feel about the Eagle Warrior line in terms of Gold expenditure? I often feel that teching into them pre-emptively makes me burn gold too fast, put too many villagers on Gold and as a result have a very unbalanced economy. While I’m not necessarily stingy on gold, I am often wary of massing Eagles early on, since Eagle Warriors in Castle Age are not necessarily a powerhouse unit (get hard countered by mass knights, for example), and waiting to imp is often hard. While this is a good strat, particularly the Skirmisher line makes me go either Skirmishers myself (and I don’t like countering a unit with same unit because it becomes a game of numbers, micro and economy, all of which I don’t feel incredibly strong at atm), or Eagle Warriors.Įagle Warriors are the focus of this thread, because while I think they are an excellently balanced unit, costing about 1/2 resources of a Knight while being slightly stronger than 1/2 a Knight, I can’t help but notice that they have one of the highest gold/total resources ratio in the game (at about 71%). One thing that I always notice with Meso civs is how common an Archer opening is and how often the opponents either mass Scouts or Skirmishers into Knights (often both or a mix of all these). I am learning a lot about the game, but recently I started playing more Meso civs (especially Aztecs and Mayans as I don’t really like Incas and I think they are underpowered with no clear bonuses to take advantage of atm) because they pose an additional challenge for me as I often use Scouts/Knights (in early castle age) to have map control and gain a positional and scouting advantage. I’m a relatively new player hovering around 1100 elo.

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