Talk:Polls/@comment-184.59.205.232-20130406191221/@comment-5395153-20130412224808

Yeah it's odd that the Imperial Elephant has a barbarian-looking guy on the top of it. Almost makes me think whether the Elephant was intended to be the Barbarian Advanced Cavalry instead of the Warlord. Also agree with that the Wood Elves should've had the archer general, but maybe not with the Manticore as I'd guess they abhor siege engines and other mechanical objects and prefer to use more naturalish stuff like Treants. Those Unicorns are a bit lacking for the High Elves, cost a bit too much to unlock and they get them too late in the game for them to be much use imo. I reckon the Wood Elves should be left with Unicorns though, to me it feels at least a little more fitting than the High Elven Unicorns. Absolutely agree with the two Fey units in the White Tree - they're pretty much 100% pointless thanks to the Sprite not getting effected by any arrow upgrades at all anymore and a cost increase in Pixies in the 1.03.24 patch even though the Pixies weren't upgradable with the Wood Elves and they have an appalling economy by comparison to the Fey, effectively making Wood Elf Pixies a dud unit.

In the upcoming 1.03.25 patch I've changed their costs for the Wood Elves to help prevent them from being a dud unit at least. Back in Warlords Battlecry 1 I think the Pixies and Sprites were with the Wood Elves, Fey just came along and pretty much took control over them a bit. But yeah, Wood Elves and Fey probably do need some splitting up a bit, maybe it'd be best to leave that until WBC4 though, I'm not keen on changing anything particularly drastic with the races (unless it's causing serious balancing/AI problems).

I'm guessing ranged heroes weren't made because hero models all had melee weapons or maybe that Infinite Interactive were concerned it may cause some imbalance or abuse to occur (I would love to see an Archery skill placed on one or two hero classes though :), especially since a ranged skill already exists in Fire Missile and imo did get ranged heroes nicely balanced).