Germany Too Strong Very Early and Very Late Game??

[Creepy Old Man]

I'm playing Germany currently, and I was horribly behind on tech for a while. Greece came after me with a rifleman army before I had gunpowder, and I only had two iron for longswords. Fortunately, the landsknechts are so cheep, that I was doing fine losing one for every rifle I killed. Ended up eliminating Greece before I finally figured out how to make rifles of my own. I couldn't have done it with normal cost pikemen.

But ... as for tanks? What are they for? That stage of the game, the only melee attack I do is against a city with 1 hp. I've got an air force, and a mess of rocket artillary with range upgrade.

 

[Suntechnique]

However, Arabs and Mongols can stil get Blitz on their Horsemen, then promote them to Camel Archers and Keshiks respectively. The Camel Archer with 3 attacks is impressive enough, but the Keshik with 5 attacks is pure horror.

I tried that, and that failfixed. I had lvl 5-6 horsemens upgraded to keshik only to find out, that NO melee units promotion works for them. Blitz+Shock-3 Keshik are the same as vanilla ones. No 2nd shoot, no terrain bonus.

 

[Rathelon]

Their Tanks seem to come too late to make a difference in all but the most hotly contested games. And they have to be built/bought, so while good, they aren't overpowered - an AI enemy of roughly equal tech could shoot it with Rocket Artillery/Bombers/Helicopter Gunships.

Tanks come before all those in the tech tree. That enemy would be ahead of you in tech, not equal.

Apart from that, lots of good changes/fixes, some of them undocumented

Satellites tech reveals the entire map now. I dont recall seeing that in the patch notes.

 

[Nunya]

I tried that, and that failfixed. I had lvl 5-6 horsemens upgraded to keshik only to find out, that NO melee units promotion works for them. Blitz+Shock-3 Keshik are the same as vanilla ones. No 2nd shoot, no terrain bonus.

Thanks for the correction. I'll stop spreading falsehoods now.