Civilization Idea: The Balts

I always thought that we have too much european civilizations, but it`s true that there`s place for one or two more. If I need to choose a european civilization for the next dlc, I would choose Balts, who are the biggest hole in europe.

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Balts

Cavalry civilization

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• Villagers work 5% faster
• Stable techs 30% cheaper
• Buildings heal twice as fast each age

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Team Bonus: Mining camp, lumber camp and mill +4 LOS

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The reason of having such a good economy and the healing bonus is since the civ is based on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so it needs to have this to represent the wealth of this powerfull state. The villager vonus may be OP, but it can be nerfed if needed.

Also, Poland and Lithuanian cavalry was among the best on europe. It needed to be a cavalry civilization.

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Now, UU and UTs

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Serbian Lancer

• HP: 90 (130)
• Unit Cost: 75F 60G
• Attack: 8 (11) +13 vs cavalry and monks
• Range: 0
• Armor: 1 (2)
• Pierce Armor: 2
• Upgrade Cost: 450F 650G
• LOS: 6
• Movement: Fast (1.5)

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Winged hussars were serbian warriors who migrated to Poland after the fall of the Serbian empire. It may not have the wings in-game, since that`s something I prefer to have only for Hussars, but it will represent them.

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UTs:

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Commonwealth: Repairers work 4 times faster. Cost: 500W 300G

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Konfederacja: Towers and castles +1 attack and range, higher accuracy. 300F 250G

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While the second UT may look bad since they lack Bracer, the extra movement speed on the cannonballs may be nice.

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Disabled Techs:

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Barracks: Champion, eagle scout

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Archery: arbalest

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Stable: Camel, battle elephant

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Dock: /

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Monastery: Illumination, block printing, theocracy, herbal medicine

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Blacksmith: Bracer, plate mail armor

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Siege Workshop: Siege onager, siege ram

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University: /

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Castle: Sappers

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Economy: /

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A weird tech tree, without champion, plate mail armor or bracer, you may go at late game with your heavy cavalry and siege, adding some hand canoneers, and try to keep booming your faster working villagers.

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In term of gameplay, your early game is pretty much wathever you want, since everything you do will be 5% better, so you can try couts, tower rush or even archers. At castle age, you`re still versatille, but you may be trying to go cavalry to use the cheaper techs and not need to do a transition at imp. Hope you enjoyed, I will back with either Javanese pr Swahili.

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