While points 2 and 4 might get addressed, I doubt points 1 and 3 will. Big, close, bloody battles are a detriment when the AI recovers way faster than you and they give less exp to boot. Even fast units coming to reinforce from the battlefield edge will find themselves arrive too late to turn the tide.ĭoomstacks get incentivized by supply lines, exp gain being tied to battle result and Lightning Strike being abusable when combined with ammo, magic and healing cap resetting each fight instead of at the beginning of the turn like replenishment. Most fights are decided 1-2 minutes after the lines engage but walking into position from deployment takes twice as long. Large battles feel bad because everything dies too fast. In contrast player missiles are unhindered by AI buffs so it's a no brainer choice. AI missiles get silly accuracy buffs but it's only really noticeable on high spread artillery (mortars, rockets, cygors).

AI melee is beyond overpowered if two units with identical stats are fighting one another the AI ones will do 40-80% more damage and will essentially never route to terror.

Charge Defence being bundled with anti-large (save a few exceptions) is another reason why halberds are always the way to go if you want to be optimal. The answer is never 'get some anti infantry', it's 'get more magic' because magic is flexible. Hell, even bunched up cav is vulnerable to that. Magic and explosion damage demolish any sort of infantry, be it melee or missile. #14 Warhammer 2 single player has deep balance problems that can't be solved easily. Especially the fact that high tier units are barely any better at dealing with low tier archers than low tier units is pretty absurd and makes these peasant or elven archer doomstacks so tedious to deal with. That being said especially archers need a general nerf, they are way too strong for how much better they are on the map and unlike monsters they are cheap and don't have a reason to be that strong. But in tww the star dragon can roast 3-4 stacks of phoenix guards before it goes down, so since the triangular balancing isn't really working mass stacks of the unit types that are powerful are simply the way to go and that's generally arty/archers/monsters. t4+ halberds could handily beat even heavy monsters in a manfight building monostacks would be a lot more dangerous. Monsters suffer from the same problem where they are basically uncountered by slot, if f.e. In TWW a lot of the archers can manfight the light cav even if the latter doesn't get turned into a needle cushion first. Apparently light cav in 3k have 50% missile resistance and archers are squishy. I still think the best way to address doomstacks is simply to introduce harder counters to ranged and monsters.

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