(May 28th, 2018, 01:28)Zalson Wrote: What is the benefit of Numidian cav in RB mod? Str 6 + defensive bonus plus C1?
Just C1 on top of normal HA (str 6, no defensive bonus). One could say it's only a minor boost, but on the other hand it will improve something that is already useful in the first place.
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Macrowise, our output demos (GNP, MFG, Food) are not looking completely terrible at the moment, but the most alarming stat in our demos is the amount of our land tiles. The leaders have 50 % more land than us even after we settled our latest filler-quality cities. In order to succeed we would need to keep expanding heavily in the short term, but reality is that we will probably stagnate for 20-30 turns before we can achieve something via military or overseas expansion.
The lack of land tiles is of course related to the fact that the early expansion phase just did not go our way. Both OT4E and Toku expanded solely towards us and as you might remember, in addition put 10+ axes inside our borders at turn 60. As a result, in the south it seems that GJ and Donovan have a lot of land available (also thanks to eliminating razing Dark Savant) and even Elkad, who seemingly started slow, is now allowed to settle areas that should have been contested 40-50 turns ago.
OT4E and Elkad already signed peace so the OT4E-backstab that we started organizing last night when we got sight of Elkad's stack is not happening. So we are now trying to make the most out of our cards, which includes grabbing couple of key techs supported by Currency/wealth-building. Maths-Calendar for MoM attempt and much needed luxury resources (we go vertical as horizontal is not in the cards). And then some of Constru, HBR, IW and hopefully bulbed Machinery so that we can convert our hammers into military that can actually create trouble for our neighbors. More of that stuff surely in the coming reports.