New trait combos for original leaders?

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dauphin


I'm not saying its easy, just that its not unbalancing if you follow the right strategy - which was the suggestion made.

You should play against someone like Snotty. He is very good at carving up Praets that come at him. One method is if you play as an aggressive civ you get the extra 10% making Axemen favourite to beat the Praet. If you have a barracks as well you can choose to have an Axeman with the melee upgrade for another 25%. Praets are damned good at city attack with their upgrades of course, but if you have a player who knows what he/she is doing then they can be stopped more easily than you'd imagine. Its about playing it smart.

Yeah, in MP it is balanced because of the traits. In SP though it is far from balanced as you don't see smart counters very often.

[Dauphin]

If it's unbalanced because of the AI then its not a problem with the Praet, it's a problem with the AI.

[DrSpike]

Yup.

[Palpster]

I don't know why this thread has come down to wether praetorians are unbalanced or not, but I'd like to get back to the original posters question, because I'm interested in an answer to that: does anyone know wether the original leaders' traits are going to get some changes??

[Will9]

Originally posted by Palpster
I don't know why this thread has come down to wether praetorians are unbalanced or not, but I'd like to get back to the original posters question, because I'm interested in an answer to that: does anyone know wether the original leaders' traits are going to get some changes??

There will be 19 more trait combos than leaders so many will probably change. Also I know that there will not be two leaders with the same same traits, and some new leaders are getting old leaders traits.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Palpster
I don't know why this thread has come down to wether praetorians are unbalanced or not

Dauphin always threadjacks.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Palpster
I don't know why this thread has come down to wether praetorians are unbalanced or not, but I'd like to get back to the original posters question, because I'm interested in an answer to that: does anyone know wether the original leaders' traits are going to get some changes??

Yeah, well, padillah et al threadjacked out Best UU thread and turned it into a discussion of the traits