Ranged Attack Penalty

[ASCII Guy]

There has been a change in the way ranged attacks affect units since the September 15th beta.

Experimental: Units no longer suffer additional damage from ranged attacks based on missing health
           i.e. a unit with 25 HP or 100HP will have the same effective CS against ranged attacks
            Rationale: damaged units are more spread out, thus they are not easier for ranged units to kill - does not affect other promotion elements, just missing health bonus for ranged attacks.
           Can be disabled - set BALANCE_CORE_RANGED_ATTACK_PENALTY to 0 in  CBO

Now that the change has been in the mod for many months, I wanted to know people's opinion on it. Especially with the recent buffs to land melee, nerfs to non-mounted/non-siege ranged, and drastic changes to mounted range.

 

[vyyt]

I like the change, I think the change should stay.

 

[Stalker0]

I'm generally in favor of anything that makes melee stronger against ranged, so I'm a fan of letting it stay. It also makes the barrage promotion for ranged more useful

 

[phantomaxl1207]

Forgot about this, no wonder it wasn't so easy to pick off weak Units with Ranged Attacks.

 

[kenneth1221]

Honestly, I hadn't noticed, but it explains the resilience of some of my units in my past few games. I'll take it.