WARGAME RED DRAGON NAVAL UNITS SERIES

This requires minimal change to the current game-engine and unit interraction. (This gives them an alternate role than just healing, and being much more aligned with being a “monk” unit at sea). When Ships are at low-health (burning) They are capturable by supply ships. They could also add interesting feature with Ship-capturing. This also helps balancing stronger cannonships such as the Baochuan, being slower and more exposed to Boarding(Melee)-ships. This encourages having a mixed unit composition in navy, and not solely spam cannonship. This also helps giving reason to keep Arrowships in Imperial to help protecting them against these attacks.Īnd Attack-ships becomes more cost effective than Cannonships in dealing with Arrowships. But the use of Boarding-ships if they get in range will counter them pretty hard, along with Demo-ships against any blob.

And removing the healing role from fishing ships.Ĭannon ships gets added, things become more cannon meta. We might be able to see role of Supply-ships, that kinda acts like a monk, able to heal individual ships. As well as blasting some coastal walls that might prevent landing. Which is mainly a early but weak cannon ship that has its major strenght vs Buildings and defensive structures. The French will have their Galleas (Mortar ship). Here we might see more new type of ships come into play. That will function similar to how siege effects the game in Castle-land battles. Aswell as Tradeships.Īrcher-Ships are fast, mobile ships with Range damage that does bonus damage vs Boarding(Melee)-ships.ĭemolitionship will be added. (Think of Fishing ships as Villagers, where Dheli fishing ships are English Vills)Īrcher-ships and Attack-ships are added. Other nation Fishing ships will also be able to do a weak melee attack. Dheli will have an advantage in Dark Age due to their fishing ships can act as aggresive support. That has a slight range advantage over melee ship, but is strong for all types of ships if it gets close enough.Īt least this is my perspective on what’s to come:ĭark Age: Boarding(Melee) ships will be made available for everyone, to allow some Dark-age aggression. The Byzantine will replace the Boarding (Melee) Ship with their unique Greek-Fire Ships. Where you will still have the Arrow Ships and Attack Ships, but an added 3rd ship, Boarding (Melee) ship. I’m starting to suspect we will see something working within the Balance Triangle. To be honest, now with the most likely upcoming Byzantine civ coming in. This would actually allow one to effectivly build coastal fortresses to protect docks, that dosn’t eat up limited pop-cap. And stone wall-towers with the same emplacement and culverin emplacement in age IV to deal with cannon ships. In form of Towers and Stone walls with navy-specific emplacements, that has the extra range needed to protect your docks. Personally I think one good way is Coastal defenses. Population cap when you finally secure the shore and able to build ships, you need to guard the little shoreline you secured with so many Siege that you hardly have Population left to effectivly build a navy that can fight back… Pop cap is indeed needed, but some sort of system needs to be in place to allow people on the defensive to be able to secure shores and win back some waters.Ĭulverins and Springalds are the answer to push back ships off the coast, But they need longer ranges vs ships and you need larger quantities of them in order to deal with ships effectivly. The only thing I don’t like about AoE naval combat is Pop-cap limitations.

WARGAME RED DRAGON NAVAL UNITS SERIES

Examples being Total War series (empires having the best afaik), Wargame Red Dragon (interesting take on modern naval warfare), Heck even remember Red Alert series having some naval units which were fun to use.īut I keep seeing the same trend of people avoiding water whenever they can.Īnd very often falls into the explanation why they don’t like it is due to one of the same reasons my friends who dislike naval warfare is: Adding another level of strategy.

I’ve played many strategy games, some with far better naval combat and some with just as bad as current aoe4 naval combat. Many games have land/sea some even air battles.īut sea units usually get unreasonable hate on em.

I hope the rework will encourage more people to play naval battles.īut I generally have a huge dislike to many of the people who don’t like naval battles, due to never really giving a good reason for it, nor people willingness to give it a chanse.

Wargame red dragon naval units