New Expansion (Site Added 19 Sep)

[[AoFE]_Chiron_]

Anyways-
Does AOFE have some new cheatcodes?

Hacker alert!

EDIT: Have you considered making HEW have 8 base attack? It makes sense cuz its supposed to be halfway to EEW, and it's an expensive upgrade...

[timtim]

it's cheats like howdoyouturnthison

[TurboB1337]

Maybe the advancing message should contains the players color:

[playername_with_player_color] advanced to the [age].

ex:

TurboB1337 advanced to the Feudal Age.

[Barbarossa89]

Less arrogance than you have.

John, Cysion has played it. He is a 17xx player, just like you. You have not played it, he has. He has authority to speak on the subject. An argument is fine, but when he says that it works in practice, according to the experts testing it, coming back with "I don't believe you" is not the most convincing of arguments.

I choose to believe Cysion. Heavy eagles will likely become analogous to EEWs of the castle age. Rather than a fast imperial > EEW, the strategy will now be fast castle > HEW. EEW are countered by several imperial units, but not necessarily right at first, and they kill most castle age units. HEW will probably lose out to knights in the long run, just as EEW lose out to cavaliers or paladins in the long run. But Aztecs can do a VERY fast castle, and getting the jump on someone may be all it takes to keep him on the defensive. This will encourage the Aztec to stay in the castle age longer than he has in the past.

If you are so wise, then what would you suggest to make HEW as good as you think they should be, without being broken? Remember, because of the extra pierce armor, they need only one armor upgrade to be immune to unupgraded TC fire. This alone gives them superior fast raiding ability.

[John_Mendl]

Ratings dont always represent skill and the settings we are talking about is 3v3 4v4 ara and i doubt if Cysion is 17xx here, and i wasnt referring to his skill anyway.. HEW in castle age are not like EEW in Imp. EEW in imp are much better vs cavalry counterparts while HEW, even after requiring a really expensive extra upgrade still loses to knights badly. And why should i convince you? Have you ever played rated arabia rated TGs consistently? I dont think so. I have, from time to time and was easily 1750. While the way in which i wrote my comments regarding HEW may seem arrogant to you, those are just my honest opinions. And it was this comment which further made me speak in that manner:

It's amazing how people are so erudite to perfectly judge situations they've never even faced! Aztecs have more options now with the extra eagle upgrade, but it will be up to you (or others) to discover them. It's not because the existing tactics have changed that new ones don't come instead.

If this guy has to post something like this everytime I post some opinion, then i will react the same way. If inplace of me, it was some 18xx tg player who posted the same thing, i bet his statement would be different.

I have been repeatedly asking one or more of the beta team members to explain how the HEW is to be used at pocket since months ago and still got no answer. As far as my knowledge and experience about how unit bonuses and upgrades work, Aztec pocket will become worse than now. It will take forever for them to get Elite EW out, and Heavy EW arent going to work anywhere as good.

My personal suggestion is to remove the whole Heavy EW thing. It does more harm to the game than good. But if you really want to keep it, give it an attack bonus of +4 vs cavalry instead of +2. Again, thats my opinion and i wont bother answering any idiot who is gonna post "omg why are you saying the same thing again and again blabla".

[whack]

I think he would be 19+ if he spent as much time playing as many here do.

Now Ill go away and let you argue some more!

[John_Mendl]

And i think hed be 17+

[whack]

Ok, you convinced me!

[Carlos Ferdinand]

Agree cent per cent with john abt heavy ew. There is nothing complicated about this and theory is sufficient here. Hew is gonna be an improvment in 1v1 likely and a negative one in tg.

Barbarossa definitely does talk authoratively about arabia, in other forums disbelieving what i say so has no right at all to question johns rite to say his opinion and disbelieve cysion.

And whack should just stop comparing no of games found on a guys nick, less ur justifying ur sig.

[timtim]

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