Adjusting retreat ability on a per-unit basis?

[mirrutatep]

Any idea if there is a strategy for manipulating retreat chances for units on a per-unit basis?

I am trying to differentiate between heavy and light cavalry and thought it would be cool if light cavalry had a higher chance of retreating.

Another idea I had was maybe to give blitz to light cavalry to give them some strategic value even though in most cases I am setting them as slightly weaker in attack/defense than heavy cavalry. I also have light cavalry units as requiring fewer resources to build and slightly fewer shields

Thoughts?

 

[Predator145]

Any idea if there is a strategy for manipulating retreat chances for units on a per-unit basis?

I am trying to differentiate between heavy and light cavalry and thought it would be cool if light cavalry had a higher chance of retreating.

Another idea I had was maybe to give blitz to light cavalry to give them some strategic value even though in most cases I am setting them as slightly weaker in attack/defense than heavy cavalry. I also have light cavalry units as requiring fewer resources to build and slightly fewer shields

Thoughts?

C3X mod/patch allows you to set retreat modes. You can set it to retreat if faster. Light cavalry can have 3 movement and thus retreat from 2 movers.

 

[mirrutatep]

That sounds interesting, although I would prefer to keep that class at 2MP if possible. Don't want light chariots to be TOO good early on hahaha

 

[Predator145]

That sounds interesting, although I would prefer to keep that class at 2MP if possible. Don't want light chariots to be TOO good early on hahaha

If you think legit 3 movers are too strong, here's another way. But you'd have to overhaul the whole mod. Have all flat terrain use up 2 movements. Rough terrain like hills 4. Worst terrain like mountains, jungle and marshes 5. Then have all your 2 movers ignore movement costs of flat terrain. Have your legit 3 movers ignore them as well. Then you can have 3 movers that don't ignore the penalty. They move like 2 movers without roads but like 3 movers on roads. They can also retreat from 2 movers. It's an intermediate class.