Balance idea

It has been quite a while since the last change, and to be honest I think the current state of the game is pretty good, so try to make as little changes as possible. Only a few thing I wanted to address here:

1. Tower meta: It is self-explanatory. Not the most interesting meta to play with.
2. Defensive-booming meta: Quick walling is so good that sometimes you don't need too many military to defend yourself.
3. Water dominance from Italian: The nature of water battle in AoE2 means water balance is just very hard, but I think at least we can have some civs being better in some water map and game mode (like how Vikings is just a beast in team game but just meh in 1v1).
4. Slight buff to Vietnamese and Saracens. Both of them have low appearance and little places in the game.

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General

• Eagle scout -1 LoS in Dark Age
• Watch tower HP reduced from 1020 to 820
• Watch tower attack reduced from 5P to 4P
• Extra arrows from watch tower attack reduced from 5P to 4P
• Watch tower +2 Bonus damage against towers and stone walls
• Palisade wall costs 5W each (consistent with stone wall)
• Palisade gate costs 30W each (consistent with stone wall)

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Civ specific

Franks

• Foragers work +15% faster only

Italians

• Fishing ships costs -10% only

Japanese

• Fishing ships work 10%/15%/20%/25% faster (+5% per age)

Saracens

• Market, University and Monastery cost 75W less
• Transport ship no longer have 2XHP and +5 carry capacity
• Transport ship cost 75W less

Vietnamese

• Remove "Free Conscription"
• New Bonus: Military production +30% faster starting from castle age.
• (Elite) Rattan Archer +10HP
• Paper money: Market trade when selling resources are free.
• Paper money costs 300F 200G