[DLL] (6-04) Moai Defense Bonus

[bahamut19]

Currently the Moai offers a 20% combat bonus to any unit up to 3 tiles away. This is a great defensive bonus that exists even if all Moai are pillaged. Currently you can pillage all Moai and the land units still get a 20% combat bonus.

This proposal is to remove the 20% combat bonus from the Moai if it is pillaged. The Polynesians are slightly demoralized from their fallen heroes.

 

[adan_eslavo]

Simple, but logical.
How does it work for other improvements with defensive bonus on its tile?

 

[pineappledan]

tbh I just don't really like that combat bonus, and would just remove it if it were up to me.

It feels vestigial, and too similar to Shoshone’s friendly lands bonus. Polynesia aren't geared in any other way towards forward-settling or agressive/defensive warring. In fact, they are incentivized to settle very differently from other civs, so I rarely found myself pulled into wars as Polynesia, because I rarely have border tensions.

 

[Enginseer]

Feels like a weird nerf. Polynesian Units get this combat bonus even from Moais they don't own so they may get a chance to reclaim lost territory better if needed.