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Medieval II: Total War (2006)

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The cost of infantry in vanilla M2TW was about one third to half the cost of cavalry and this reflected the stats, except the fact that cavalry goes faster, so the charge of a cavalry unit is multiplied by about 1.6 or thereabouts. So cavalry was OP and that was not reflected in the costs because the costs did not take into account that the charge of the cavalry is much faster than the actual stated value. Subsequently, some gamers pushed for the stats of the cavalry to go even further up and the stats of militia to be nerfed even further to the point where an encounter between cavalry and infantry is just a joke, as you can tell from my videoclips from many current medieval mods.

Now, why under these conditions, the costs of these two respective unit types were not changed in accordance with their new values is beyond comprehension. In BC 2.4.2, a couple of lancer units can wipe out entire armies consisting of only infantry and yet lancers cost just 2-3 times as much as the most basic levy unit. This is not only ridiculous from the viewpoint of a human player, it is cheating also the AI that is recruiting these worthless infantry types at high cost.

Here is the start of a Ghurid campaign on vh/vh using Broken Crescent 2.3.2 (where worthless infantry is somewhat cheap), to illustrate why the human player does not need this worthless infantry, even when it is cheap. It would be useless probably even if it costed nothing, unless it also had free upkeep. What is the point in recruiting infantry when it has been nerfed so much? Only the AI will likely waste money on them. On the one hand gamers complain that AI factions are given more money, then they stay quiet when the AI is being abused in this way.

I hope mods find ways to address this ridiculous state of affairs. No one is going to play a mod, if the unit stats do not relate to the unit costs, at least not online against other humans unless it is going to be a cavalry only fight, which is obviously not an exciting prospect for online gaming.

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