Anyone find Poland remarkably powerful ?

[CaptainUnknown]

People complaining about the UU and UB:

The UB:
+1 Gold from Pastures
+15 XP for Mounted Units
-25% Production Cost
No Maintenance Cost
No Terrain Requirement (so can be built in cities without access to horses, cow, or sheep).

Don't forget, the UB has no maintenance cost while a stable does (1 gold). This factor alone should mean that if you have pastures, build it.

 

[Gyra Solune]

...And here I thought the devs said Casimir was supposed to be the second fiddle Luigi who never really goes for any victories. Cripes, sounds like he's especially prone to being a surprising runaway even more than Harald or Hiawatha.

The one thing that does seem to impede Poland is the fact that their UU is a Lancer and doesn't upgrade from Knights, when their UB is early-game and promotes building lots of Horsemen. If Winged Hussars did upgrade from Knights and got all their promotions then they would just win automatically.

 

[pawelo]

Confirmed - Poland is truly a gem, especially when you have a terrain full of sheeps/horses.
In my first game as Poland, I am going for a cultural victory based on religion - Piety for the Reformation Sacred Sites belief, Aesthetics for faster GP rate and ability to build them with Faith.
The UA is great, UB rocks with pastures around and gold being really scarce. I just built a few UU to defend in a futile war a neighbour declared on me - haven't had the chance to really use them to their full potential.
I still feel like I'm experimenting a little bit - however the game feels really great with new civs, mechanisms - tourism, great works, archeaology, congress.

 

[Martin Alvito]

It's clear enough that they're good. Whether they're great remains unsettled, with the principal question being whether or not someone can find an unbalanced SP strategy for them.