25 Egyptian CA's vs 25 Hittite CA's? the egyptian wins. however, no decent egypt player would simply use CA's. Chariots, camels and priests are necessary to make an egyptian bronze army complete. I am trying to use chariots more, under the intention of getting SCs within 2 minutes of hitting iron. That can be truly devstating to any enemy player. But the bronze war shold jst be avoided by egypt, instead you should focus on getting those scythes as early as you can, you *will* need them vs a hittite.
I don't suggest we get into a fight over who is more powerful, hittite or egypt. They are *very* close, however, in an ideal situation, unlimited gold, unlimited wood, unlimited food, the hittite will eventually overcome the egyptian forces (ae's, sc's, ha's, cents, ea's, *hcats* vs scythes, ea's, war eles and priests?)
Yesterday i got into a game, 1 vs 1, egypt vs hittite. no bronze skirmishes (thanks to my walling in and towering all economic outposts During iron, the game was highly contested. Although there was only one skirmish, it showed just how egypt can force stalemates on hittites. My scythes attacked a force of ca's and cats (siege workshops near my base). They were defeated. but his focus shifted back toward my base. at that moment i attacked the outpost with another force, war elephants, ea's & scythes. brilliant technique. the war eles take in the damage while the scythes close in for the kill. i wiped out 3 of his 6 cats. my ea's were going down, so i sent another force of scythes from behind the cats. the cats were knocked down, the siege workshops torn apart and the towers dust thanks to my ea/war eles.
However, this was merely a battlein a huge war that was about to begin, unfortunatley, i got dropped. But i'm sure it could have gone on for hours more. why?
Ever try to take out a hittite on *defensive* with any civ? trust me, a determined hittite will give you one hell of a time. And i have yet to come up with how egypt can handle a hittite with walls, guard towers, cats behind the walls, ha's, ca's outside of the walls.. too much.
So, if ES is gonna tone down ANY civ in RoR, I suggest it should be hittite not shang
Perhaps removing coinage, and preventing them from getting guard towers would help?[This message has been edited by Indigo (edited 01-19-99).]