[Anonymous Player]

Of course, in reality, you would wash and cook the meat before eating it.

However, if hypothetically you were able to eat lambs that had not been prepared, would it disrupt the game in any way?

What would now be overpowered?

[kochapi]

It is not kosher

[DisIsGoodForBitcoin]

The sheep has sword cum

[Celthric317]

Who the hell washes meat in real life?

[mojito_sangria]

It’s a frustrating feature since the vanilla version of AoE2

[Nieshtze]

I don’t think everything is (or should be) about balance imo.

The original devs just made a game they thought was cool (and there were many balance issues like the Teuton TC drop strategy).

I don’t mind meme units like Teutonic knights (and I will even make them) for this reason.

[vesnoimorskoi]

It not much about balance, it’s more about fun.

Kinda mini-game called “make sure you don’t kill a boar with military/TC” to make Dark Age more interesting

[kazoohero]

Well for boars, the original game mostly assumed you would eat them where they spawned.

So taking this meat was a risky maneuver, where you either needed to send lots of villagers out or risk some of them dying.

I imagine they added the rule where military units can’t kill food for meat because it felt like a way to cheat the system and not risk any villagers against the boar.

[CamRoth]

It’s honestly just an old clunky mechanic.

It definitely throws off new players.

Military can kill sheep and boar in AoE4 and it works perfectly fine and doesn’t confuse players new to AoE.

Boars however leash to a small area so you have to go out on the map to take them.

[kaptain_sparty]

Age1 you could eat military slain animals and get food from crocodiles and lions

[cloudstrife559]

There was a bug a while back where you could kill the boar with the TC and still get the food.

My impression was that it wasn’t broken in any way, but many people preferred the old way for historical reasons.

[mittenciel]

I wouldn’t mind it if you lost a percentage of food if you killed it with military, and it wouldn’t be all or nothing.

[some_random_nonsense]

You have to risk vils for resources i thinks that’s what its all about.

If you’re good you can micro your scout or TC to chip away health but this has other weakness in the possible loss of a major resource.

Otherwise their is no risk to the boar at all.

Just smack it with scout wait for it be in range of the TC and pepper it down.

In the current state you could loose a vil, bad players even two, or destroy some 400 food with an unlock arrow or sword.

[Snizl]

Originally the boar was not supposed to be lured and killed by villagers as an integral part of the dark age.

That never was intended from the devs, and it seems they carried that idea over to AoE4 as well.

So I suppose the idea was, that you need a lot of vils to kill the boar, and cant just kill it with much stronger military.

What this changes for the game nowadays is manyfold: When going forward with a vil to lame the opponents boar, you can last hit it with the scout to completely deny the food.

On the other hand, if the opponents scout is stealing your sheep, you can kill them with your scout to lessen the damage a little bit.

[Arjen_Arg]

You would also nerf lamming a little bit with that change since killing enemy animals with scout wouldn’t be as devastating.

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