I was playing as Norway (don't just say they're a bad civ - they should be at least viable for conquest in the renaissance) but after upgrading my uniques to a strong force of experienced caravels and musketmen, my army is useless against renaissance walls. For most civs, this is a significant challenge. Before I felt this was an appropriate challenge for 'adapting to the era of gunpowder' but now it doesn't even feel worthwhile to upgrade to musketmen if I should spend all of my niter upgrading or producing bombards. Niter creates an effective bottleneck on unit production and upgrades in the early Renaissance. It basically means that you should upgrade HARD on siege units throughout the whole game otherwise, renaissance and later campaigns are effectively useless. It's completely ridiculous that musketmen should provide effectively NO damage to a city with renaissance walls.

After restarting a few times due to the challenges I explained above, my upgraded renaissance army completely washed over the renaissance walls of an enemy capital. In my first June Update game, I had to restart to a couple of saves a quite a few times to ensure that the support units I was using for each era and the walls I was approaching. Those graphical reasons are enough of a complaint to warrant a post, but my annoyance with the new wall buff go much further.

Why should a thing that's used to pound down city gates be useless based on the era of the city games? Just ask GROND. I never really liked how I could keep using battery rams until the information era, but this update completely nerfing them - to the point they are useless - makes even less sense. The wall graphics do show enough of a distinction to be gaming at a glance. The fact that battering rams can only work against ancient walls and seige towers only work against medieval and lower seems arbitrary.

But this June update goes too far in making or breaking invasions in Civilization. They should be a last line of defense that enables a city to stand long enough to withstand a quick invasion.

Civilization vi update june 2019