RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[P&nny]

Cannons are awesome, but yeah, ladder players generally modify flanking for later-era games.

@Krill - Can you make a ruling here? Of all the rules, the "no mixing attacks across players" seems to be one that's pretty darn important and ripe for abuse.

High level, and most importantly advanced era start, MP games, including teamers have shown the ubber dominance of 2-movers on any era from Medieval on.
And like Sunrise mentioned, we often remove Flanking from our star events (we play our prime competition on MP mod on the ladder).

Cannons arrive at a time that the 2-mover stack is large and promoted enough that they can ALL be flanked & evaporate easily.
That said when flanking is off, there an absolute upgrade from Catapults and really awesome !
The only thing is that you can manage pretty well with lots of catas, so you better prioritize other (military techs) (like Sulla did) over the too expensive - too early, kinda deadend-ish (at the time) Steel tech.

Earlier cavs would have helped better Nakor