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Jump back to quoted post22 Sep 2017, 18:52 PMelchino7

With most factions basically sharing the same units. That's not the problem, cause you can even play mirror matches which even further reduces unit balance issues.
The uncertainty comes from a basic design point. Age of empires is a game which focuses on simple "micro" game mechanics but with HEAVY macro/economic/teching decisions playstyle.

Jump back to quoted post30 Aug 2017, 10:48 AMLeo251

+1

Jump back to quoted post16 Aug 2017, 15:19 PMButcher

Lol. They make the weakest faction weaker by nerfing its "crutch" unit and expect a useless unit to suddenly become viable.

By that logic I could make Conscripts useful by nerfing Penals.

Jump back to quoted post13 Aug 2017, 07:24 AMkarolllus

The main problem here imo is balancing philosophy. Instead of making allies focused more towards quantity instead of quality you try to reproduce axis styled unit. After the changes the only things jackson will be lacking to be identical with axis units is better frontal armor. xD

Problems concerning tank vs tank battles are:
- too narrow maps with not enough flank spaces
- too much mobility for axis tanks
- not enough mobility for allied tanks
- too expensive allied tanks

Axis tanks prefer frontal, long range skirmishes. Hence elephants, jagdtigs, jp4s, panthers etc. Frontal armor on axis tanks is high af like its supposed to be. Armor penetration on most axis tanks is high too. Also cost of axis tanks is high. Now the problem here is retarded blitzkrieg, it makes axis tanks too fast too furious. Being slow with slow turret rotation is literally the only chance for allied tanks.

Now allied tanks have shitty armor pen, no tankiness, bad armor but some of them have somewhat decent mobility. If anyone then allied tanks should have something like blitzkriego mobility to make better raids.

I would concentrate on making allied tanks best for making massed raids with high mobility. Give blitzkrieg to all allied tanks. Lower cost of sherman and make it less effective vs infantry to compensate and voila we have a fun game. One side prefers static frontal skirmishes while the other wants to make big raids. It sounds better than making jackson an axis clone.

Jump back to quoted post13 Aug 2017, 09:05 AMVipper

The real problem with large games is the inflated economy and the ability to instantly replace a Super heavy call in.

The first can be fixed with reducing the turnover of cashes while also increasing the price.

The second can be fixed by making the cooldown start when a Super heavy is destroyed and not from when it called in.

Jump back to quoted post12 Aug 2017, 22:17 PMmiragefla

So I'm bringing this back up since we've had more time with 1.2. What do people think of the Jackson now?

From my experience, the unit likely needs to be toned down against medium tanks a little more and possibly go to 560 health, which is in discussion behind the scenes. Yes that means it'd go back to getting 2-hitted by Jagdtigers and Elefants and require less to kill from non-160 sources.