I hate noobs that make their game inbalanced by giving only a few civs multiple UU's. Now Germany and US are overpowered. If you are going to give out multi-UU's, at least do every civ in the game.
Actually, most civs in the mod I play myself do have multiple UU.
That will be the 2nd part of my post.
As long as one plays an ancient start, it can't be OPd if the game ends before either civ builds any UB or UU.
The SEAL won't matter(much if at all). A fighter UU wont matter (much if at all), a Tank UU won't matter(much if at all), and a Jet UU halfway between the fighter and jet fighter - in abilities and tech - becoming the latest UU, won't matter much if at all.
Consider the impact of early praetorians, or a mali mint (+ skirmishers) - the building UU advantage lasts the whole game.
Consider *value of advantage per turn* x *Number of turns you have the advantage*
The American and german UBs compare horribly.
If the game ends 10 turns after industrialism, the UUs compare horribly.
If you consider the gains made with early UUs, their advantage continues to last the rest of the game. Even if the game ends just as you get to future tech, those extra cities gained early on by praetorians are not going to be countered by extra range on a fighter, extra space on a carrier, or first strikes+march on a marine.
The later they come, the stronger the benefits need to be, and we in fact see that the Seal+ Panzer are in fact the latest UUs, with some of the most inconsequential advantages.
A few other bits of info about the mod:
The English get a longbowman (old longbowman replaced with heavy archer), that basically also fulfills the role of the crossbowman (see battle of Crecy).
They also get the East Indiaman, as Britain used that ship type as well, and most of the demonstrations of their combat capability, were done with british ships (see battle of Pulo Aura).
Meanwhile, many forget that the Byzantine empire *was* the Roman Empire.
Cataphracts *and* Praetorians! oh my!
Meanwhile the Native American Empire, already admittedly a fictional construct, is merged with the Aztecs who also occupied North America (and in one version, the Maya and Inca as well, but *that* was OPd)
China gets the Hwacha - It had gunpowder and rocket propelled arrows first, even if it didn't design the Hwacha.
The distinction of the German + Americans in that mod, was that their UUs were all in the same era, as opposed to Praetorians and Cataphracts, or redcoats and English Longbowmen.
I also merged Germany with the HRE, but the Landsknecht obviously does not belong in the same era as Panzers and jets.
I'm also contemplating a U-boat UU.
