My thoughts on 1.9 update to Empire War
Archers-- Almost everyone will agree with me when I say that something made archers better. I don't know what it is, but 4 or 5 shotting a troll is way to strong.
Shields--In my experience with shields, they can break quickly if constantly being shot at. Tim might want to consider adding unbreaking to them. Also, since he added shields to Lossarnach axeman, he will probably add them to other classes. I am fine with that as long as no goblin classes that fight the dwarves on Moria gold, Moria, and Erebor have them, because that's what makes dwarf guardian special . I don't know if it was old even be a good idea to give dwarves 1.9 shields because you can knockback and block arrows at the same time.
Knockback-- Everyone knows that it's broken. Tim said he is going to fix it, so I'm not complaining, but please do that soon. Until then orca will crush dwarves on both Moria maps since hammerers have no chance of turning the tide at stairs and great stairs.
Textures-- I think some of them like ent textures are fixed but I'm not sure about orcs iron axes. I think it would be cool to give trolls a 3d model for the stone hammer. Also please change sea lantern textures inside of morgue, some thing more magical and dark.
Mages-- mages seemed very strong since they have no cool down for one reason, and I was one shotting orc archers over and over on Minas Tirith. Also white wizard could one shot normal ent class.
OVERALL-- I was super excited about when it first came out. At first everyone was complaining, and I was one of them. I had played 1.9 pvp actually a decent amount before but I was getting reked. After playing some more and as the day went on Tim was being helpful and was working on stuff. (Thanks) So now I am really liking this and after time, buffs, and nerfs, I think a lot of people will like it.
Thanks for everyone's work on this (Tim and staff).
--Fundin