Scythian Bug

[diamond geezer]

Can't see that this has already been posted, but I've now played two different games as Tomyris where I started getting two units later in the game, that were not Saka Horse Archer or Horseman. In my last game they were Missile Cruisers. Once the bug happens it seems that type of unit always produces double.

Perhaps other Tomyris players are keeping quiet about the bug...

 

[BrendanVI]

If you are getting two missile cruisers when you build one, you likely have built the venetian arsenal wonder. I am not sure what you are saying about the horses.

 

[diamond geezer]

Ah. That explains the missile cruisers then. But I also got double Cavalry in another game.

 

[Sun Tzu Wu]

I wiped out Tomyris, when she started sending pairs of Horsemen to attack me with. I don't know whether that would have progressed to pairs of Knights, pairs of Cavalry, pairs of Tanks, pairs of Helicopters, and pairs of Modern Tanks (all cavalry type units). Also, I don't know whether that would be considered a bug; it probably would be so considered though. I suspect that only the unique unit (Horse Archer) should be generated in pairs for Tomyris.

 

[diamond geezer]

It clearly says that Horsemen will as well, but I don't think anything else. Knights are Heavy Cavalry and they definitely don't double up.

 

[Sun Tzu Wu]

It clearly says that Horsemen will as well, but I don't think anything else. Knights are Heavy Cavalry and they definitely don't double up.

Well, both Saka Horse Archers and Horsemen doubling up is unbalanced, although perhaps intended. A lot of things in Civ VI are intentionally unbalanced to make the game for fun for those players that leverage those imbalances to their advantage. These imbalanced do make Civ VI less suitable for competitive play though.

In my game (King level) versus Tomyris, I had 14 of her Horsemen in my territory, before I could build enough Varu (Gandhi) to change the tide of the war. A Civ other than Gandhi would have been hard pressed to overcome this Horsemen spam from Tomyris. For other Civs, Spearmen would have been the only reasonable counter to this Horsemen spam from Tomyris. Maybe Spearman would be enough, but several Horsemen can wipe out a Spearmen in ghe field easily and the damaged Horsemen can run away, heal and fight later with additional promotions.

 

[Zaapp1]

This is intended behavior. As it says in her ability text, Tomyris gets double units on all Light Cavalry and her unique unit, the Saka Horse Archer. So Horsemen, Cavalry, Helicopters, and Saka Horse Archers all produce 2 units when you train 1 (buying only produces 1.) Like Brendan said above, any other units producing double are probably from a Wonder.

 

[Sun Tzu Wu]

This is intended behavior. As it says in her ability text, Tomyris gets double units on all Light Cavalry and her unique unit, the Saka Horse Archer. So Horsemen, Cavalry, Helicopters, and Saka Horse Archers all produce 2 units when you train 1 (buying only produces 1.) Like Brendan said above, any other units producing double are probably from a Wonder.

This is grossly unbalanced. Early reports in August suggested that only the Saka Horse Archer would be doubled when produced. I'm surprised they doubled all light cavalry units.