Fimbulwinter is broken

[Tipsy.T-Rex]

Unlimited spawning of wolves at all of the opponents town centers creates a virtually unwinnable scenario where you spend your entire time trying to recover your population and economy and then more wolves show up. Two norse opponents with fimbul? Forget it, you wont even have a chance to recover. They don't even need line of site to invoke it! The cooldown or favor costs need to be enormously increased because this is ridiculous.

[Devang]

Can you garrison or not? In the Beta you couldn't, in the open stress test you could

[Doomed World]

You can still put villagers in TCs and towers

[Appiodici]

Just garrison with the bell, wolves will just kill 2 or 3 peasants, you just loose sometime and some life on building, it is not at all OP

[Eaglemut]

Originally posted by Devang:

Can you garrison or not? In the Beta you couldn't, in the open stress test you could

You can now.

[Kindra]

glad to know i wasn't going crazy, i didn't play beta but i played original, so was surprised i could garrison during winter in AoM Retold, espically since the towers/tc still got the frozen visual effect

[Thorveim]

i feel Fimbul is really a subpar god power. It kills unprotected workers in the wild, but the rest can just hide in TCs, towers and forts and wait it out, making losses to the wolves minimal. For a myth age power its.. kinda sad, and the best use I found for it was to create extra bodies to tank for my army while pushing in the enemy main base.

Also its too expensive to recast to be spammed, unless your opponent has a wonder, and even then i prefer it to getting spammed with meteors

[Unrealtairo]

I'm pretty sure OP is referring to the wonder age spam of Fimbul, not the "one cast" by 2 players every "once in awhile".

You can't just hit the bell and hide because there's only about 15 seconds where those wolves are "not" around outside your TCs. I mean you could, but then you're garrisoned....permanently because they will spam fimbul non stop.

In age V you can spam it every 75 seconds, if 2 players spam it every 75 seconds its a wrap. The wolves last 60 seconds. So do the math, its not a fun time lol. If they want to balance it, it should only be targeting 3 random TCs, not every single one on the map.

[Thorveim]

Originally posted by Unrealtairo:

I'm pretty sure OP is referring to the wonder age spam of Fimbul, not the "one cast" by 2 players every "once in awhile".

In age V you can spam it every 75 seconds, if 2 players spam it every 75 seconds its a wrap. If they want to balance it it should only be targeting 3 random TCs, not every single one on the map.

i see... thing is, the enemy having a wonder is already suppoed to be the end of the game,a nd not sure fimbul spam is worse than meteor shower spam or anotehr such destructive power being spammed. And out of that one endgame situation, fimbul is just... meh.

[Unrealtairo]

Depends on the # of players. If it's just a long 2v2 3v3 then yea its not that big a deal. But when we're talking 6v6 or something it gets way more destructive than spamming the other god powers because it hits "every" single tc on the map. 2 people spamming fimbul can take out 6 players just about all on their own.

Hell, I took out 9 legend AI with just me and one AI bot spamming fimbul too LOL. I got lucky that the AI actually did that. Was kinda funny.

I do enjoy the hell out of it but compared to other powers, at least in big matches, its absolutely broken. A lot of the powers are in wonder age though, but I think fimbul takes the crown just a bit too far. Not sure how I feel about age V tbh, feels like whoever gets there first if they can defend a rush is going to win it. Almost wish there was an option to disable Age V.

[Ful2leo]

I confess, i spam fimbulwinter in some games... They exist some issues to prevent the wolfs spam. The wolfs spawn in a radius around the TC, so you can wall close at your TC and get some farmer safe. But i think the better counter is to build your economy far away your TC. In that way, the wolfs destroy your building but not your eco. An other method consist to focus the wonder of north ennemy and find a strategy for destroy it fast (like hellgate greek)

[Unrealtairo]

^ Def agree.

Although then you're completely naked to being raided by horseback too.

Right now I'm noticing a lot of people don't even realize that there even "is" an age V yet, so I guess we should just grab some popcorn and wait for all the anti-fimbul posts lol.

[My Sunrise]

It should be nerf for real. Like, I'm playing it and I think it should be nerf.

[Appiodici]

Originally posted by My Sunrise:

It should be nerf for real. Like, I'm playing it and I think it should be nerf.

Especially in teamgame. When you have 3 Norse opponent and they put 3 fimbulwinter in a row whre all villager get idle for 2min and the game is 100% over. Nothing you can do against except win before age 4.

[Valkez]

Guys you're late to the party, they already nerfed it. Ring the bell when it's used and all is well. And if the opponent has a wonder, then whatever, you lost not because of Fimbulwinter.

[Aware]

If everyone has a wonder, fimbulwinter wins the game against all other god powers. So it needs to be nerfed