Additional Changes (these changes replace the "Other Changes in the Works" section above):

* Shepherd will receive -50% Rune/Food Decay

* Sending extra generals on attack will now be a 3% bonus

* Specialist armies will be slightly more effective at capturing & protecting land & resources in battle.

* War will have 50% science production from both libraries and other buildings.

* End-game scenarios for war have changed a bit:

MUTUAL PEACE - 1% honor loss for both sides
WITHDRAW - 2% honor loss for the withdrawing kingdom; however, the withdrawing kingdom gets 20% of the other kingdom's explore pool
SURRENDER - 5% honor loss & lose 20% of your explore pool

* Ambush attack likely statistics will be:

14 hour attack time
Re-capture 50% of land taken
Defense fights at 80% strength
Off Specs are treated like Def Specs for the defender
Can only be done once on a particular army
Ambushes can then be re-ambushed by the opposite party ad-infinatum

We will probably make this attack fairly limited this age; it is mostly an experimental feature in the main game this round.

Final changes will be posted Monday; we would still like continuing feedback on these changes as well as input on race balance issues. We recognize that the likelihood of having relatively balanced races this age is pretty slim because of the volume of changes.

Mehul (Original post)

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