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Civilization Balance

General

Units & Buildings

• African Bandit Catamaran: Damage multiplier against guardians now only applies to water guardians.
  
• Chevauleger (House of Wittelsbach): Melee damage multiplier against Skirmishers improved to 0.75x (up from 0.6x).
  
• Fishing Boats: Reduced sound volume of fishing.
  
• Hand Shock Infantry: Slightly increased the obstruction radius from 0.49 to 0.59 for Chasquis, Chimu Runners, Coyote Runners, Disciples, Rattan Shields, Shotel Warriors, and Tiger Claws.
  
• Hot Air Balloon: Fixed a bug that made descending hot air balloons count as unit losses.
  
• Inquisitor: Cost increased to 110c (from 100c) and train time to 45s (from 35s).
  
• Javelin Rider: XP reward corrected to 11 (down from 12).
  
• Lipka Tatar (House of Jagiellon): Ranged damage reduced to 10 (from 12.5).
  
• Mounted Rifleman: No longer considered a Counter Skirmisher.
  
• Napoleon Gun: Cost increased to 475c (from 450c).
  
• Royal Dragoon (House of Bourbon): Range increased to 17 (from 16).
  
• Wokou Pirate: Fixed the non-functional melee attack in the Melee stance.

Cards & Technologies

• 11 Renegade Spanish (II, Aztecs, Inca, 500c): Cost increased to 600c.
  
• Oresund Customs (I, House of Oldenburg): Now also affects American Citadels obtained from the Maya native settlement.
  
• Sarmatism (House of Jagiellon): No longer grants Lipka Tatars +1 extra range on top of the default range increase.
  
• Sudanese Red Sea Trade (Sudanese): Technology research time increased to 30s (up from 10s).
  
• TEAM 3 Villagers (Aztecs, Ethiopians, Haudenosaunee): Only one of these cards can now be sent per team.
  
• War Ceremony: Reduced the effectiveness the War Ceremony by -2.5% on average.

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