This could also still keep the 3 hexes radius as 'draft range' for that combat so you can pick units from other armies, if you want.

If you would start at the concept phase of the game and design everything around 1x18, all these problem could be tackled.įor example, when combat happens you would get a pre-combat UI (similar to the one we have now but with more functionality), where you select the 18 (or whatever number) units you want to use. However, to me that still is all a problem of the current implementation. Yeah, the whole thing would need to be re-designed to go the 1x18 route without losing the convenience of that. restriction to 6 units when entering wonders). The rest of the issues brought up can still be tackled with appropriate design around a 1x18 stack (e.g. Other than more overhead when controlling the game? Like when you start from a conceptual level, where is the benefit of having to move 3 stacks instead of 1. Like, as a designer, you could design an army size and then the appropriate rules for all content around it (spells, leaders etc.). I was more coming from the UI side of things. That's just arbitrary and someone decided to design it like that and the balancing followed. Well, the number '6' or '18' is nothing I was really getting at (it just happens to be 3圆 = 18) What benefit this mechanic holds that we wouldn't have otherwise. (Which in itself is not really an argument for anything).Įspecially those that will click on 'respectfully disagree'.īecause I really want to know why this exists. What is the point of this feature, other than 'legacy feature' - always been like that. It's already weird and the rules trump the logic of 'but I got more troops in the city to defend!' But even now, you can have 7 stacks in them, and just 3 of them actually fight the battle. Besides that, I don't see any mechanic that relies on it.Īnd that could easily be just a check, that says: 'Send a small brave entry force.

Looking at the content, it seems like the only thing that uses this 'feature' is the ancient wonder mechanic. When you could just get rid of the 'draw in nearby armies to the fight' mechanic, and just make the stack size 18. Why add the extra burden and hassle of trying to move 3 stacks in sync (very important in simultanious turns) and the general added UI mangement in clicks? I just don't understand the game design reasoning behind stacksize 6 with the added complicated feature on top to 'draw in' nearby armies.Įxcept multiplayer /multi-faction battles maybe.

Age of wonders 3 perfect unit stack