nerf British

[SiuYin]

There is too many british player in the game now.
if you look in the top 10alliances, most of leaders are british.
the conclusion is obvaiously, British is overpowered
it need some nerf

I truely believe british range army should be nerf: they should got a 10％penalty in dps, in order to balance+1range

 

[Motaz Tarek]

actually who ever is the brilliant gave them the extra +1 range also gave them extra 15% dps
am switching to British when i get to AA if they don't get nerfed but the reason is I haven't done till now is that i feel they r gonna get nerfed soon

 

[Wendy]

i do agree about nerfing british, maybe giving them 4.5 range instead of 5 or a damage reduction (i play british too) but i don't think is going to be done anytime soon, the game is full of bugs i hope they fix those first, then think of ways to improve minor things

 

[Wynne D Fanchon]

For +1 range, a 10% decrease damage penalty wouldn't do much really. It'll take like 1 extra second to destroy something. The extra range will always be a problem if you're against British, so something needs to be done about that.

 

[Master Contrail Program]

The extra range, plus the damage, plus the loot bonus, plus the relatively quick and cheap boosts in uni is just too much.

I'm not saying my base is a defensive juggernaut by any means, but since I've gotten to global age the vast majority of 5 star attacks against me have been from the same tired 70-80 shooters, 8 howitzers, 2 carts British armies. The Korean or Chinese versions of these attacks are not nearly as succesful. That's how overpowered plus one range is on such a cheap and plentiful troop.

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This game obviously has bigger issues to deal with. However, they were so concerned with ''balance'' that they arbitrarily nerfed tactics, perhaps the ''data'' can tell them to look at this as well.

 

[SiuYin]

+1 Range is so overpowered, in most case, after bring down mortars, nothing can stop green jackets
They are too good to bring down towers.
Either increase Tower's range by one (and drop some DPS) or DPS penalty to British

Otherwise， War between top alliance will be British VS British

 

[astero]

Archers/ranged infantry simply need to be nerfed so that they cannot ignore walls and just fire over them.

I mean tanks need to destroy the wall before hitting what's behind it, so there's no reason why foot troops shouldn't have to do exactly the same. The only unit that should be able to fire over walls should be the mortar and artillery. NOT foot troops with machine guns...

 

[LordJestix]

British do not need a nerf. What needs to be done is bring other nations up to the level of british.

 

[yemen]

If they fix the AI so all these units don't walk right by deadly defensive buildings on their way to the wrong building or enemy troops, then we can talk about nerfing.

Right now, all my British teammates feel like the AI has recently gotten worse, so those ranged units are just walking to their deaths and abandoning the ranged siege on their way to defensive troops that should be way outside of their ignore radius. Doesn't matter how great your range is if you are shooting at the wrong targets.

They already added sniper towers almost specifically to weaken the British, and all other recent rebalancing has been in favor of boosting defense. Combine that with weakening offense, and you will just end up getting wiped and rebuild more often.

Edited to add: Not being able to shoot at (or target) units on the other side of a wall might actually help this some. It would make them less prone to wandering off and dying, and the ranged siege does 90% of the over wall building damage anyway. But then the AI might get even stupider, so this would require A LOT of testing.

 

[FroggyKilla]

They can't have the +1 range AND 15% DPS increase. I'd suggest removing the latter.

 

[King Barbs]

Quit talking about nerfing the British, if your not good enough to defend against them just switch nations and join them. You don't want to do this as you wish to keep the unique feature of whatever nation you are playing. Just get on with the game & quit whining.

 

[Motaz Tarek]

lol please man, it's not about being good in defense or not, it's a skilless nation strategy to be British and yea easy to join them too, but where is the fun? sometimes they don't even need to bring healers or use rally which are two of the most strategic features in this game, even the tactic nerf specially sabotage was due to the abuse of british players of it
any abusive strategy will meet it's end by a nerf, previously cavalry and infantry and soon shooters, just hope game devs are smart enough to nerf British shooters only not all types of shooters cuz they r much more balanced than the British crap

 

[Skilladilla]

I strongly disagree that sniper towers have weakened british or any other nation. In theory it might be, but they never shoot at the same archer and they can't kill him in one shot, by the time they fire second time healers already did their job and it's back to begining...so they might kill couple of archers but that's it.

 

[JNation]

Yes, but if everyone switched to British then where would all the other NTG's come from? If you give more incentive to be other nations other than British then you wouldn't have the NTG issue you have now. Picking a nation should be a hard choice not an obvious one...

 

[Wendy]

i speak as a british player, king barbs i used to think like you before... i refused to use the line attack for a long time, and that to be honest needs skills.. but once you learn the line attack you just bypass every or almost every layout..they are speaking the truth..in war of course..when i play MP i do 5 star everything but using different army and not using line attack..i use rally as soon as i can and i try not to lose troops. But line attack is OP, you just have to deploy and use tactics and planes..no need to do anything else.

 

[Wendy]

sniper towers kill my healers and are a pain in the ass but that's my experience
in multi of course

 

[Manifesto]

The british unique unit is the Longbowman, what's the point of a LONGbowman who isn't longer than anyone else? Pointless argument!
Other nations attack with the same rifle,artillery,healer combo because it works, plain and simple.

 

[Htmk5]

The main purpose of a longbowman is to impress the bowomen

 

[astero]

Other nations attack with the same rifle,artillery,healer combo because it works, plain and simple.

Yeah, as I said I don't mind the British having extra range and damage but archers/ranged infantry simply shouldn't be able to shoot over walls. THIS needs to change. Even tanks cannot fire over walls...

The only units which should be able to bypass walls and shoot over them are mortars and artillery.

 

[Kaiser Shag]

The problem is that the british riflemen have no defense which can kill them. For each unit there is a defense which needs to be sabotaged. For example the french or greek tanks still get heavy damage from anti-tank guns, the british riflemen who should get damage from mortars or redoubts get in fact 0 damage because of their overcheated range. In this game for each unit you have a "counter-unit" to balance, except for the british riflemen.