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"My point exactly..."the Unovan woman muttered. Well, she had no desire to travel with the suicidal. Those sort of people tended to be as dangerous to those trying to help as they were to themselves.

You're the type of person who gives themselves unlimited resources, aren't you?

High-tier elite units should be the shock troops, the special ops of your armies in games like Total War. If a game devolves to each side spamming top-level units at each other much of the tactical goodness is lost and, frankly, the game becomes less fun.

Look at Dawn of War, for example. Each army has ultimate units that they typically only get one of at a time. These things cause dread in the enemy and are capable of wiping the floor with lesser units, to the point where only specialized grunts, or superior numbers of high-tier units, or other ultimates can take them down.
Once you mod it to remove the unit caps however...every match eventually gets to the point where for many armies there's zero point in building anything but ultimates. They're just that good. The specialized grunts tend to be fragile and the non-ultimate elites often have their own caps. Having an army of Baneblades go up against an army of Monoliths is cool at first but you quickly realize that much of the fun is gone. The game becomes a spamfest where whoever can pump out ultimate units the fastest, wins.

Velites? Psh, everyone knows archers are the superior ranged units.

"If that's your attitude you should probably just go home now. Pokemon training isn't fun and games, you know. Not here."

Seriously? The hell, people?

Quote from: BFEL on March 05, 2016, 08:42:53 pm

Well I'm in the giveaway thread for it, so I certainly HOPE its fun

Honestly I don't even know why I'm humoring my curiosity, given realistically Ill likely need to dump all the money in my bank into hospital bills.

You could always sign up for the giveaway thread. I would assume it doesn't cost you any money to do that

Quote from: Sirus on March 05, 2016, 08:28:04 pm

Unit limits are sensible, especially if there might be historical or lore reasons for their limited numbers. That way you save them for the biggest, most important battles where they'll make more of an impact.

Which frankly... there isn't

The limits are just for gameplay reasons alone.

Which is still fine.