Pietato
Platonic Perfection
GDR? I don't remember if that comes in Information or Future Era and I'm not at my computer right now.
Information Era. There are currently no Future Era units, though the GDR has upgrades there.
GDR? I don't remember if that comes in Information or Future Era and I'm not at my computer right now.
cavalry doesn't beat melee. crossbows doesn't beat muskets, cities can't stop massive pillaging, and then you're only left with muh allies, another uncertain source of defense.
Cavalry and Cuirassers are not medieval units, and beat muskets.
Yeah, people with guns are good at shooting people with swords and metal armor. What crazy talk!Why are people trying to compare muskets to knights? Historically, muskets were the counter to knights. Muskets didn't require the training that knights or archers did. The British conquered half the planet on a bunch of muskets standing in a square. The counter to muskets didn't arise until better guns and field cannons. The musket was a game-changer.
People obsessing about the RPS methodology in a civ game make no sense. Sometimes in history you find units that literally change the tech curve and if you're the first one to get them you SHOULD dominate the battlefield.
Why are people trying to compare muskets to knights? Historically, muskets were the counter to knights. Muskets didn't require the training that knights or archers did. The British conquered half the planet on a bunch of muskets standing in a square. The counter to muskets didn't arise until better guns and field cannons. The musket was a game-changer.
People obsessing about the RPS methodology in a civ game make no sense. Sometimes in history you find units that literally change the tech curve and if you're the first one to get them you SHOULD dominate the battlefield.
Well yeah, pikes should get knights.No, muskets were not the 'counter' to Knights.
When the only professional, full-time soldiers around are men on horseback with armor, they beat any bunch of amateurs on foot with shields and spears, or even swords.
The counter to Knights was Pikes:
1302 CE: Battle of the Spurs - knights massacred by Flemish pikemen
1314 CE: Battle of Bannockburn: Knights massacred by Scots half-pikemen
1315 CE: Battle of Morgarten - knights massacred by Swiss pikemen
See a trend here?
1411 CE: first "hand cannon or 'Hackbuss" (Arquebus) appears - first primitive musket in Europe, and it doesn't appear with a shoulder stock, making it a true individual handgun, until 1470 CE.
So, 100 - 150 years before any possible Musketman, Knights were already getting their heads (literally!) handed to them by Pikes.
Oh, and the first "Longbow Victory" over knights wasn't until 1346 CE at Crecy (well, technically the first massed use of Longbows was in 1340 CE, from Cogs in the naval battle of Sluys, but that didn't include a lot of knights on the receiving end of the arrows) - the Longbow had a great effect on the writing of English military history, but none on knights, or even on their armor - they had already started adopting fully articulated plate armor as an answer to the heavy prod Crossbow (Arbalest) in the previous century.
And the British did not conquer anybody while standing in a square: they conquered by standing in a line which developed the maximum firepower from their muskets - just like everybody else in Europe from 1700 to about 1860.
(The Square was strictly a defensive formation against cavalry and a great temptation for artillery/feild cannon, for which it provided a massive, immobile Target)
But if your game gets the Wrong Ones you wind up playing Fantasy and wondering why the Units don't work the way you think they should . . .
Any Swiss would have done but does push the point home.knights massacred by Swiss pikemen
... ssshhhh Waterloo ssshhhhAnd the British did not conquer anybody while standing in a square:
https://twitter.com/EdBeach23/status/1135947090167828482?s=19
Ed says there's a new Report Screen that wasn't in the video yesterday.
I'm strangely ambivalent about this and the unit ability tooltips because I know they'll likely not be as good as what the modding community has already come up with.Ed says there's a new Report Screen that wasn't in the video yesterday.
https://twitter.com/EdBeach23/status/1135947090167828482?s=19
Ed says there's a new Report Screen that wasn't in the video yesterday.
Here's my notes on what they talked about:
-- Medieval+ techs increased in cost