At a glance, reinforced wood seems to be the best "non-special" armor in the game and steel of any strength is utterly pointless. Only real use is repelling muskets and rifles with steel walls extremely early on, but even then, your balloons are still vulnerable. it's like bringing something weak to water to a gen 3 pokemon game. water types make up the largest demographic, and similarly in airships, most of the weapons are piercing, including some of the highest-damage ones in the game, and piercing hard...

Curious if anyone turns on spies in your games? I tried it yesterday and got all my money and tech stolen and constant uprisings started by spies. I researched the tech for stopping spying but it had no effect. I know we can turn off spies in options but in other games I always turn on spies if there is a choice to add more happenings. I don't mind some theft and uprisings but it was very 4 seconds or so a new spy success and they would never let me build up more than $600 to try and build a bigger sh...

Every single enemy nation starts off with enormous, flying dreadnoughts. They usually have a higher max ceiling, better armor, cannons. Meanwhile, every single starting ship I get is a balloon armed with a rifle. Also is the autoresolve intentionally designed to be terrible? Not very fun....

never seen them used effectively. the only "aircraft" I ever use are free ones from the heroes(guarian spirits and gargoyles OP as balls btw

as far as I can tell it pretty much just makes the game about who got the better hero from RNG rolls rather than who has better ship designs and economy. i mean, 99% of the leaders are borderline useless but there's seemingly a few of them that are just unstoppable monstrosities. It really doesn't help the situation of conquest being nothing more than fighting a single AI nation the whole game that blobbed up and steamrolled everyone when the aforementioned nation can cast spells to instakill any forts, su...