22FEB15 - INFANTRY & CRAFTING CHANGES NOW LIVE

I do want to add that mountain-dwelling in general has been disincentivised, especially for non-elves, but really in general, for lack of an attack troop that is not highly penalized for attack there.  The change to the terrain modifier for infantry could make dwelling in the mountains more attractive for some people (especially dwarves).  Still would require terraforming though.

First time I have seen the "Benevolent Masters" referred to as "The Market"

Interesting, lets see how this plays out, a change is as good as a holiday I guess.

Hi there, and thanks for the updates!

Two questions here, including one that's in my mind for some time:
* The terrain modifiers chart does not mention one type of terrain, although it does have modifiers: glass (that redish mountain-like terrain that can be found in and around the Calumnex region). It seems to be somewhat similar to mountains, since it heavily penalises heavy troops (infantry and cavalry); has it been changed too?
* The other question is: when you train a unit you have to provide its equipment (weapons, armours etc.); the quantity varies (advanced units need more than basic ones, we can imagine various reasons for that), but still we can assume that those weapons are given to them for regular use, and indeed they can go to war with what they're trained with. Then if you give a unit, say, a crafted bow, what becomes of its previous, regular bow? Is it consumed? Does it return to the armoury (but then why isn't it added to the inventory?)? If at some point you unequip it the unit is still able to fight, so we can assume it takes back its regular weapon. How does it work? The unused weapon isn't really returned to the inventory so that the unit is sure that it'll find its original weapon back once we order it to unequip the crafted weapon? But if the unit is killed while having a crafted weapon, then is its original basic weapon lost too, although it was not using it?

Anyway as an elf having little infantry and living partly in mountains, this update isn't really favouring me. But it still is good, seems to improve the game balance and I do hope it'll encourage the use of infantry and variety in armies! Also it is an incentive to create more dwarven accounts...
I can't wait to use all this against factions ;)

I should also point out, stalwarts are penalized the most severely, as they require three items (2 swords, 1 chainmail) from the Blacksmith. No other unit gets stuck like that. I bet a lot more people would build stalwarts if the requirement was 2 swords, 2 plate mail, and that the price of both swords and chain would drop as a result.