Martin Alvito
Real men play SMAC
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America's UA is quite good against the living, and the portion of the community that is single-player only rarely realizes this.
The problem with the Longbowmen is that you need to bring both high-quality damage per shot and additional range to bear to make a unit with a range advantage genuinely useful. When compared to CKN, they end up looking pretty bad.
The problem with the Ottoman UUs is that you have to build them from scratch. If you could upgrade lesser units to those UUs, the Ottomans would be at least decent if not strong.
Bismarck's design ultimately revolves around the UA and Landsknecht. The UA is great in a compressed Ancient-era time-frame game (eg: Duel) and bad otherwise; the Landsknecht is a lousy unit on the offensive.
The problem with the Longbowmen is that you need to bring both high-quality damage per shot and additional range to bear to make a unit with a range advantage genuinely useful. When compared to CKN, they end up looking pretty bad.
The problem with the Ottoman UUs is that you have to build them from scratch. If you could upgrade lesser units to those UUs, the Ottomans would be at least decent if not strong.
Bismarck's design ultimately revolves around the UA and Landsknecht. The UA is great in a compressed Ancient-era time-frame game (eg: Duel) and bad otherwise; the Landsknecht is a lousy unit on the offensive.