Blitz promotion is INSANE

[thungrim]

I've been playing a huge marathon continents game as Egypt. I thought I'd love Egypt because of the 20% wonder production bonus, but now I love them for the war chariot. Specifically, the war chariot with the Blitz promotion.

For those not in the know, Blitz allows you to attack multiple times per turn, basically allowing you to trade movement points for attacks. Given the chariot's 5 movement points, you instantly go from one-shot-per-turn to a LUDICROUS 5-shots-per turn. Since you gain XP just for shooting, you also effectively quintuple the rate at which you gain XP.

After getting Blitz, I quickly leveled again and took Mobility (+1 Movement) and got another attack per round.

I'm close to leveling again, and now I'm trying to decide between Mobility 2 and Charge.
- Mobility 2 will give yet another attack/move for a whopping SEVEN attacks/moves per turn
- Charge gives a 25% bonus against already damaged units.

EDIT: Corrected information. War Chariot base movement is 5, not 4.

 

[mattavich]

Woo will have to try that

 

[Doomwyte]

Woo will have to try that

me to.

 

[duxup]

That sounds crazy powerful.

 

[Narn]

i assume the developers took this into consideration when making the game and it wont be a surprise to them to hear you;ve done this

 

[Druin]

This is exciting

 

[thungrim]

At least its not easy to get. You need Shock3 or Drill3 to open it up, which means you have to survive quite a few fights. Even so... what's better than a war chariot with 65% damage bonus (shock3/drill3)? How about one that can do it 4 times a round.
You just need to be sure to get in enough fights (and survive) to rack up that amount of XP. Shouldn't be a problem on marathon games though.

I got there with lots and lots of spearmen and only the two chariot archers. I typically had a line of 3 spearmen with the two war chariots behind those, and a single great general behind the chariots. A few spearmen got chewed up over the years, but it was well worth it for the final results on my war chariots.

 

[last skunk]

i assume the developers took this into consideration when making the game and it wont be a surprise to them to hear you;ve done this

That comment made me laugh so much I pissed myself, needless to say it would be highly unproductive to list all or even the most basic features, such as ability to save a mp game, that the developers decided to leave for future generations to Repair. 2k must only have two programmers on staff; one that writes glitchy patches and one to delete dynamic game play.

 

[thungrim]

Ok... minor adjustment to my numbers. War Chariot base movement is 5, not 4.

So with Blitz and Mobility2... SEVEN movement/attacks per round.

 

[Dizzy75]

I have a strong feeling they will nerf this at some point...or else have the AI take advantage of it or something.

 

[ond_magiker]

It might be overpowered, but at least it's historically correct.

 

[thungrim]

It might be overpowered, but at least it's historically correct.

I'm still rolling around in these bad bows in the Renaissance Era.

 

[thungrim]

Ugh... I upgraded one unit to a Knight, and the Blitz promotion does not appear to apply anymore.

 

[thungrim]

I wonder if the Blitz promotion is available for boats at all.

 

[mrt144]

It might be overpowered, but at least it's historically correct.

Which makes it a bad game design.

 

[dannythefool]

Reminds me of my blitz tank armies in CivRev :/

 

[duxup]

I have a strong feeling they will nerf this at some point...or else have the AI take advantage of it or something.

If at all possible it would be amusing to see a highly effective AI patch quietly released and just watch the community freak out when the AI starts pulling all sorts of moves they haven't seen before.

I know AI fixes tend to be a lot more iterative but one big powerful AI patch would be keen.

 

[Tridus]

Between this, the burial tomb, and the wonder construction bonus, I'm really liking Egypt this time around.

 

[durindana]

Ugh... I upgraded one unit to a Knight, and the Blitz promotion does not appear to apply anymore.

A ranged unit upgrades to a melee unit? That's... weird.

 

[Tomice]

Don't your units get damaged a bit in every fight? what are they fighting against?