I played a game a few days ago on the zone in the quirinal room. one of the opponents was roman and i got yamato (random civs). not very far in the game i had cataphracts [none of the enemys ever made camels!] and i had a lot of HAs. when i aw that the roman had scythe chariots and HELEPOLI i started makeing stone throwers to help them out. it was to late. NOTHING i had or my partner could stop the heepoli, heavy cats he had now, and scythe chariots.
i played a game today and ironed in 22:30 with roman. i uickly build 8 ballistas and sent them to the enmys town. GAME OVER for that enemy. he resigned. then i upgraded to helepolises. i had 8 helepoli and 4 catapults and took out the other enemy that had gotten tool rushed by my allie early on. the other enemy got swept up by my heavy cats and helepoli and my allies HAs.
i played a game today and ironed in 22:30 with roman. i uickly build 8 ballistas and sent them to the enmys town. GAME OVER for that enemy. he resigned. then i upgraded to helepolises. i had 8 helepoli and 4 catapults and took out the other enemy that had gotten tool rushed by my allie early on. the other enemy got swept up by my heavy cats and helepoli and my allies HAs.
my conclusion is that helepoli are way way way way too powerful. with a large group of them they canstop nething.
i think that helepoli should be tamed down. with maybe 20 attack or so. maybe 25 i guess but not more than 25. thx for reading this.
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