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Balance changes

General

• Wall hitpoints decreased to 1500 (down from 3000).
• Bastion improvement effect changed to give 300% wall hitpoints increase (up from 150%).
• Wall line of sight decreased to 1.
• Elmeti, Mamelukes and Li’l Bombards are now unavailable to train in the Fortress Age.
• Hire Egyptian Mamelukes home-city shipment effect changed to give 4 Mamelukes (down from 5).
• Monitors cost decreased to 600 wood and 200 coin (down from 800 wood and 200 coin); Long-range Attack ability range decreased to 70 (down from 100) and increased cooldown time to 1 minute 30 seconds (up from 1 minute).
• Native Scout snare-effect removed.
• Mass Cavalry improvement cost decreased to 600 coin (down from 750 coin); effect adjusted to –40% train time (down from –50%).
• Dragoon ranged resistance decreased to 20% (down from 30%).
• Town Center cost decreased to 500w (down from 600w).
• Culverin multiplier against warships increased to 12.5 (up from 10).
• Fishing Boat cost decreased to 70w (down from 100w).
• "Schooners" shipment effect changed from "-60% Fishing Boat cost" to "-20w * * Fishing Boat cost and -40% train time" (decreases train points from 25 to 15).
• "East Indiamen" shipment effect changed from "-30% Fishing Boat cost and a dock wagon" to "-20w Fishing Boat cost and a dock wagon".
• Canoe range & line-of-sight decreased from 20 and 24 to 18 and 22 respectively
• War Canoe range & line-of-sight decreased from 30 and 34 to 25 and 29 respectively.
• "European Cannons" shipment effect changed from "+20% warship attack and +5 warship range & line-of-sight" to "+30% warship attack".
• "Offshore Support" shipment effect changed from "+20% warship attack and +5 warship range & line-of-sight" to "+20% warship attack and +2 warship range & line-of-sight".
• "Admiralty" shipment effect changed from increased warship build limit to "Dock warship improvements cost & train points halved".
• Town Center Kill bounty set to 200 XP (down from 240 XP).
• Fishing Ship Kill/Build bounties set to 7 XP (down from 10 XP).

Aztecs

• War Chief's cover mode tactic removed.
• TEAM Cheap Fishing Boats home-city shipment effectively removed (no effect now).

British

• Manor cost increased to 140w (up from 135w); bounties recalculated accordingly.

Chinese

• Village pre-Fortress Age fattening rate decreased to 25% (down from 50%) of the regular rate.
• Banner Forbidden Army (2 Iron Flails & 2 Meteor Hammers) train points increased to 33 (up from 29).
• Old Han Reforms home-city shipment attack and hitpoints effect decreased to 50% (down from 100%); cost effect decreased to 20% (down from 50%).

"Old Han Reforms" shipment cost removed (down from 1000f).

Dutch

• Bank XP bounties increased to 140 XP (Build - up from 70 XP) and to 280 XP (Kill - up from 140 XP).
• Bank base build-limit increased to 5 (up from 4).

French

• Coureur Des Bois cost increased to 125 food (up from 120 food).
• Thoroughbreds home-city shipment no longer decreases the train time of Cuirassiers.

Germans

• Uhlan hit points decreased to 180 (down from 190).
• Doppelsoldner hit points increased to 240 (up from 230).
• "Lipizzaner Cavalry" shipment increased to +25% Uhlan attack & hitpoints (up from 15%).

Indians

• TEAM 5 Urumi home-city shipment effect changed to give 4 Urumi.
• Sepoy hit points decreased to 180 (down from 190).
• House cost decreased to 60w (down from 80w), hit points decreased to 800 (down from 1200); Bounties recalculated accordingly.

Iroquois

• 200 food added to starting crates.
• 200 wood removed from starting crates.
• “Crates of 100 Food, 100 Wood, and 100 Coin" infinite shipment increased to 200f, 100w, 100c.
• "Crates of 200 Food, 200 Wood, and 200 Coin" shipment increased to 400f, 200w, 200c.

Japanese

• Bakufu home-city shipment effect on Daimyo and Shogun training-rates decreased to 50% (down from 100%).
• Shogun Tokugawa hitpoints-aura decreased to +10% (down from 20%).

Ottomans

• TEAM Silk Road home-city shipment moved to the Discovery Age (from the Colonial Age); effect increased to 25% (up from 15%); team effect removed.
• Abus Gun reload time increased to 3.5 seconds (up from 3 seconds).
• Veteran Abus Gun improvement effect changed to also give +2 range.
• Janissary hit points decreased to 210 (down from 235).
• Janissary cost decreased to 90f-25c (down from 100f-25c); Bounties recalculated accordingly.
• Mosque cost XP income increased to 0.7 XP/second (up from 0.4 XP/second).
• Mosque settler improvements halved in cost:
• Millet System improvement cost decreased to 50 wood (down from 100 wood);
• Koprulu Viziers improvement cost decreased to 125 wood (down from 250 wood);
• Abbasid Market improvement cost decreased to 300 wood (down from 600 wood);
• Galata Tower District improvement cost decreased to 100 coin (down from 200 coin);
• Topkapi improvement cost decreased to 200 wood and 200 coin (down from 400 wood and 400 coin);
• Tanzimat improvement cost decreased to 200 food, 200 wood and 200 coin (down from 400 food, 400 wood and 400 coin).

Portuguese

• Settler cost decreased to 85 food (down from 100 food).
• 100 food removed from starting crates.
• Genitours home-city shipment effect changed to give additional +4 range (down from +6).

Russians

• 17 Strelets home-city shipment effect changed to give 20 Strelets.

Sioux

• Bow Rider hitpoints decreased to 220 (down from 250).
• Cetan Bow hitpoints increased to 100 (up from 90) and speed increased to 4.5 (up from 4).
• 4 Villagers home-city shipment removed.
• 5 Villagers home-city shipment added to the Colonial Age (note: added as a separate shipment, not a changed version of the 4 Villagers one — has to be unlocked manually).
• Teepee base hitpoints increased to 600 (up from 300).
• Teepee gather rate aura boost added (3% per Teepee, range 24).
• Teepee hitpoints aura maximum range increased to 18 (up from 12).
• Teepee damage aura (enabled by the Friendly Territory home-city shipment) maximum range decreased to 18 (down from 24).
• War Clubs’, Cetan Bows’ and Wakina Rifles’ ability to build Teepees by default added.
• Aggressive Policy home-city shipment effect changed — increases the Teepees’ gather rate aura boost to 5%.
• War Chief “heavy cavalry” unit-tag added.

Spanish

• 3 Lancers home-city shipment effect changed to give 4 Lancers.
• 4 Lancers home-city shipment effect changed to give 5 Lancers.
• 5 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 6 Rodeleros.
• 6 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 7 Rodeleros.
• 7 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 8 Rodeleros.
• 8 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 9 Rodeleros.
• Unction home-city shipment damage-aura effect decreased to 4% (down from 5%) per Missionary (maximum damage increase decreased from ~63% to ~48%); Missionary cost decreased to 50 wood and 50 coin (down from 100 wood and 100 coin).
• "Spanish Gold" shipment effect replaced with: "Grants 400 coin with every shipment starting with this one." Availability changed from Industrial to Fortress Age.

Map changes

Four new map pools are introduced and the Quick Search pool has been changed. The new map pools consist of the following maps:

ESOC Maps (all currently existing ESOC maps)

• ESOC Adirondacks
• ESOC Alaska
• ESOC Arizona
• ESOC Arkansas
• ESOC Baja California
• ESOC Bonnie Springs
• ESOC Bengal
• ESOC Cascade Range
• ESOC Colorado
• ESOC Florida
• ESOC Fertile Crescent
• ESOC Gran Chaco
• ESOC Great Basin
• ESOC High plains
• ESOC Herald Island
• ESOC Hudson Bay
• ESOC Indonesia
• ESOC Iowa
• ESOC Jebel Musa
• ESOC Kamchatka
• ESOC Klondike
• ESOC Manchac
• ESOC Manchuria
• ESOC Malaysia
• ESOC Mendocino
• ESOC Pampas Sierras
• ESOC Parallel Rivers
• ESOC Tassili
• ESOC Thar Desert
• ESOC Tibet
• ESOC Wadmalaw

Standard Maps (Quick Search pool)

• ESOC Adirondacks
• ESOC Alaska
• ESOC Arizona
• ESOC Arkansas
• ESOC Baja California
• ESOC Bengal
• ESOC Cascade Range
• ESOC Colorado
• ESOC Fertile Crescent
• ESOC Florida
• ESOC Gran Chaco
• ESOC Great Basin
• ESOC High plains
• ESOC Hudson Bay
• ESOC Iowa
• ESOC Jebel Musa
• ESOC Kamchatka
• ESOC Klondike
• ESOC Manchac
• ESOC Malaysia
• ESOC Manchuria
• ESOC Mendocino
• ESOC Pampas Sierras
• ESOC Tassili
• ESOC Thar Desert
• Mongolia
• New England
• Painted Desert
• Patagonia
• Siberia
• Yukon
• Andes

Team Maps (maps recommended for team games)

• ESOC Adirondacks
• ESOC Alaska
• ESOC Arizona
• ESOC Arkansas
• ESOC Baja California
• ESOC Bengal
• ESOC Cascade Range
• ESOC Colorado
• ESOC Florida
• ESOC Fertile Crescent
• ESOC Gran Chaco
• ESOC High Plains
• ESOC Hudson Bay
• ESOC Iowa
• ESOC Jebel Musa
• ESOC Kamchatka
• ESOC Malaysia
• ESOC Manchuria
• ESOC Mendocino
• ESOC Pampas Sierras
• ESOC Tassili
• ESOC Thar Desert
• Silk Road
• Siberia
• Himalayas Upper
• Painted Desert
• Andes
• Deccan

Classic Maps (the standard map pool currently used for Quick Search on the official RE patch — TAD 1.03)

• Araucania
• Bayou
• Borneo
• California
• Carolina
• Deccan
• Great Lakes
• Great Plains
• Himalayas
• Hispaniola
• Indochina
• Mongolia
• New England
• Ozarks
• Painted Desert
• Patagonia
• Saguenay
• Siberia
• Silk Road
• Sonora
• Texas
• Yellow River
• Yucatan
• Yukon

KnB Maps (map pool created by AOE_Fan for the Knights & Barbarians mod, now rebalanced and adjusted for competitive gameplay)

• KnB Alps
• KnB Andalusia
• KnB Ardennes
• KnB Bosphorus
• KnB Crete
• KnB Cyprus
• KnB Dalmatia
• KnB Danish Straits
• KnB Finland
• KnB Greek Archipelago
• KnB Hedjaz
• KnB Ireland
• KnB Lake Geneva
• KnB Lombardy
• KnB Low Countries
• KnB Massif Central
• KnB Morea
• KnB Norway
• KnB Portugal
• KnB Pyrenees
• KnB Rhodopes
• KnB Sahara
• KnB Savannah
• KnB Sicily
• KnB Sweden
• KnB Tuscany