Would this balance things out a bit?

[NewbieHere]

I see a lot of anger towards the Spear-Man-Beating-Tank problem, and personally, I'm not against any changes on the element of chance, but would increasing the hit point of all units by 1, so a conscript will have an HP of 3, and normal will have 4, and so on. My question is would this balance the probably a little, or would this just increase the battle time and use up RAM?

 

[ainwood]

It does affect play balance quite a bit, although quite a few players do mod their games in this sort of style (I think some people go as far as TRIPPLING hit points for each level!)

There is a bit of anger about the spearman beating the tank (it resurfaces from time-to-time), but my personal opinion is that the game is fairly well-balanced as it is.

The odd 'extreme' result makes the game more interesting than if it was utterly predictable. Look at the thread in the conquests forum where the alternative combat system was proposed and heavily debated!