| 5 | | There is an additional balance consideration, which is that although garrisoning a heavy warship with catapults is extremely expensive, an ungarrisoned heavy warship is cheap (200 wood 200 metal) compared to the cost of a catapult (350 wood 350 stone). However, I believe tests show it is not necessary to increase this cost. Garrisoned medium warships are greatly superior to heavy warships for ship to ship combat, and my tests show that ungarrisoned heavy warships are inefficient at attacking fortifications no matter how many you have, because they get in each other |
| | 5 | There is an additional balance consideration, which is that although garrisoning a heavy warship with catapults is extremely expensive, an ungarrisoned heavy warship is cheap (200 wood 200 metal) compared to the cost of a catapult (350 wood 350 stone). Therefore, in this patch I increase the cost of heavy warships to 350 wood 200 metal 350 stone, to encourage players to garrison catapults instead of just making more warships. This change might not be necessary, since my testing indicates that ungarrisoned heavy warships can't break shore defenses well even if you have a bunch of them, because you can't pack them together tightly enough to concentrate fire. |
