@Muf-Muf, will these new changes make the fights easier to win? If so, how much easier? Will they make the fights harder? Will they be about the same difficulty?
The difficulty should be similar, given that you are in the range of battles where we -balancing-wise- expect you to be at a given time.
One Question will the research for the dogs as an human player then change to a mortar research or will humans still have the better dogs?
We will have to rearrange quite a big number of technologies. The current Cerberus research doesn't necessarily have to become the new spot for the Mortar unit.
Why not introduce the merc camp in chapter two for the dogs, and have the merc camp research in chapter seven be just a research for the new unit?
We couldn't pull the Mercenary Camp forward, as it's tied to the Fairy Units, which become available only in Chapter VII.
If the programming requires 2 additional buildings,there's no reason they couldn't be 1x1 each...Problem solved.
Or we could give you unlimited city space, but we won't do that either. Sorry.
- there will be new training grounds for dogs: I am an elven player and I don't want to have such ugly looking dogs in my city many hours of playing before the orcish guest-race comes in, especially not trained in the fairy-style mercenary camp
The Cerberus unit will be trained in the Training Grounds, which is a different building than the already existing Mercenary Camp.
- I understand the sense of using the existing units before rebalancing (although this is a hint for degradation altogether) when they are cheaper to build afterwards - but I want to have an amount of units as stock, so I can fight provinces and tournament, when I have the time for it (yes fighting in this game is "time-eating") and the changes at squadsize reduces also my amount of stock (at my level to an third), for me this is a reason against using up my existing units
If you want to keep your current units and not use them that is of course perfectly fine. You can and we won't stop you from doing that. Just be aware that your current amount of units will fill fewer squads after the first package has been released, which means that you could potentially fight fewer battles with them. But, as said: if you want to keep your units, you of course can.
PS: Sorry for bundle 4 different aspects in one post - if requested, I post each aspect in extra answer
That's perfectly fine - we'd rather have this than "double posts" (means that you post multiple times in a row).
I'm sorry if I just missed where it tells. But that "pentagon" illustration, when will it be relevant? From what date is that part of the update "active"?
You will be able to see this on Beta very soon already. If all goes to plan (and we cannot say that for certain until the update has been released), we hope to see the first changes with version 1.15 that is scheduled to come to Beta next week.