Horses are powerful already. If you do the horseman rush, as Mongolia, you won't get keshik that quickly since it replaces knight.
I did a simple game, duel map, warlord or prince difficulty to test quickly. Keshik is nice, but I couldn't take over cities with it. I still had to build a swordsman to take over enemy city. They are quite powerful and fun, but you are a warmonger, you should've been attacking with horseman already, it takes a while to get keshik in comparison and once it's out, ouch for the enemy.
mongol's are completely overpowered. I just played the mongol scenario on King. I took the Military Tradition policy which doubles already doubled xp promotions.
attacking walled cities is cake. move unit up, fire, and then move back (3 tiles from city) and get no damage whatsoever. the double xp w/ the military tradition doubles the rate at which i promote, and i save insta heals, and most of my units are so promoted it is laughable.
only drawback is that you need melee unit to capture cities (heard you could capture w/ archers, tried it with keshak and apparently can't).
made for another boring civ 5 experience.
You can't take cities with your Horseman or Knight??? I seem to recall that I and many here have done exactly that. I would think an uber-Knight would be even more greater than already overpowered
unit(s). But this goes along with a lot of other things, must give most of the players a fun, easy game.
yep capture cities with horsemen, just resist the urge to promote to keshik.
also, the Great General heal rate comes in handy.
also, anyone know if Mongol's have a high spawn rate of great generals??? I have 4 of them now and on turn 60 of 100 in the scenario. 1. Genghis, 2. Berke, 3. Hulegu, 4. Mongke
I've downloaded the Mongols yet they don't show up in-game at all...not even in the Civilopedia.
Well, the question is what is going to come next?
Any DLC now will be measured by units like the Keshik. Especially when you have to buy it, it has to "offer" something in return.
Seems like Civ0.V becoming more and more a fantasy spectacle, or some crazy Marvel comic with more and more and stronger "super heroes".
That's the way the franchise is going to take? Thanks for the beer and have a good night.