Kingdom vs Empire balance in 1.1

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Am i the only one that notice empire is much more overpowered than kingdom?

I guess this is because their Sion, when they get sion, kingdom is pretty much finished.

I think it is because their savage strike ignore armor and their magic immunity, it's ok if they have only either one of them, but both? 

It's really ridiculous when my knights that has 300 armor got hit with full damage of 900 by those sion's savage strike, yet the description says that those sion will hit me for 0-0 damage while i hit them with 10-20 x 12 damage.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Archers are your friends....

sions have low armour and go down easy

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

and if you pimp them out with magic items and really strong bows XD

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Ya, I try and get a company or two of archers maxed out for defense and offense.  Works wonders when you can whittle them down before they get too close.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I dont think the the OP is referring to himself, but the other kingdom factions on the map.  Yes I agree with you.  Every game I play the kingdom factions get ran over by the empire.  The AI is to simply on rid/rid to be a threat to me playing as kingdom, but against the AI kingdom factions they never stand a chance.  This should be fixed and I have always noticed it, but could never understand why and I think you are right about the sion units.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, i was talking not only about myself, but the entire kingdom faction.

I don't know any other reason why kingdom always lose to empire other than that empire sion is overpowered.

I rarely play empire though, last time i played empire was at v1.07.

But i'm 100% sure now that empire sion is too overpowered because of their savage strike ignore armor, this is too ridiculous.

You're right that archer is the best solution, but that makes archer is the only way to play kingdom making knight (melee unit) is useless while empire can play both knight (melee unit) and archer. I think this is not the balance we all hoped for.

 

This is maybe out of topic, but i think the units from last tier of diplomacy also need to be improved. Dragons and demons are too weak now, yet they cost 1000 gold, what a joke.

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

To be fair though, even though they cost 1000 gold, I end up with hundreds of thousands of gold, I can't spend the gold I got no matter what. 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

No, that is not my point, my point is dragons and demons abilities doesn't reflect its cost, not that they're expensive for us to hire.