Increased Army Value Flag

[Pounder]

Even after these tests, I will still stick to single unit armies with bonus points, that will be for the sake of the AI and keeping the game even.

I will try the Increased Army Value Flag in my next game as that will be a balanced addition.

I will continue to have the Battle Created Unit be an Army and have additional armies generated by wonders.

 

[timerover51]

Even after these tests, I will still stick to single unit armies with bonus points, that will be for the sake of the AI and keeping the game even.

I will try the Increased Army Value Flag in my next game as that will be a balanced addition.

I will continue to have the Battle Created Unit be an Army and have additional armies generated by wonders.

I can see your reasoning for using a single-unit army with the increased bonus hit points. What you might want to do is, since the army is only a single unit, change the "number of cities required for an army" in the general settings menu of the editor from 4 to 1, to allow you to build a fair number of them. That would definitely be the case if you have Wonders producing them. My experience with Wonders auto-producing units is that you will get them whether you can use them or not, so you could have more armies produced that you can actually have.

 

[Pounder]

I can see your reasoning for using a single-unit army with the increased bonus hit points. What you might want to do is, since the army is only a single unit, change the "number of cities required for an army" in the general settings menu of the editor from 4 to 1, to allow you to build a fair number of them. That would definitely be the case if you have Wonders producing them. My experience with Wonders auto-producing units is that you will get them whether you can use them or not, so you could have more armies produced that you can actually have.

Only one Battle Created Army can exist a time, they are like Battle Created Leaders, they must die before another can be created.

My game is 1000 turns, so I have a wonder auto-produce an Army every 100 turns.

If you build the wonder half through the game you could have a maximum of maybe 5 or 6 Armies in addition to the Battle Created Army.

 

[timerover51]

If you are auto-producing every 100 turns, then you should not have to worry about the number of cities then. Are you going to use the Military Academy as your Small Wonder?

 

[Pounder]

If you are auto-producing every 100 turns, then you should not have to worry about the number of cities then. Are you going to use the Military Academy as your Small Wonder?

I'm using Hero Epic.

 

[timerover51]

That should work nicely. Good choice.

 

[timerover51]

How are the Increased Value for Army tests going, Pounder?

 

[Pounder]

How are the Increased Value for Army tests going, Pounder?

I haven't started a new game yet, still working on finishing my current epic game, could be another week or two.

 

[Pounder]

I can't be positive that there is any difference, too bad the value wasn't adjustable so that randomness could be overcome.