What's the best Coat of Arms?

[OpTricky]

All the bonus's seem really decent, I always have such troubles picking one. Which ones do you guys use?

[FireWars763]

Personally I am a big fan of the Vol bonus and the Wolf bonus, though both pretty much require you to spec into a dedicated weapons system (Aircraft and Landships respectively). As you said though, they are all pretty powerful if you use them to the fullest.

[Red Bat]

The Worm's Eye is effectively several bonuses combined with some extra on top of it, so almost certainly that one unless something got rebalanced since I last played.

If we ignore that one, the rest are a lot less game changing. I tend to pick ones that give a general bonus without restricting me to focusing on one strategy though, such as the Sextant.

[Raymond]

After trying all the coat of arms I am very certain the dragon one is literally cheat code. During age of pirate you can farm so many pirates with the dragons its basically money hack, and you are basically unbeatable early game (the hardest part of the campaign), and late game they are great escorts for your expensive and powerful ships.

[FireWars763]

Originally posted by YariMurai:

After trying all the coat of arms I am very certain the dragon one is literally cheat code. During age of pirate you can farm so many pirates with the dragons its basically money hack, and you are basically unbeatable early game (the hardest part of the campaign), and late game they are great escorts for your expensive and powerful ships.

Dragons are also great at capturing undefended cities as they are insanely fast and use practically 0 supplies. You can also get dragon riders without the flag if you raid a dragon nest, though its not guaranteed.

[Raymond]

Originally posted by FireWars763:

Dragons are also great at capturing undefended cities as they are insanely fast and use practically 0 supplies. You can also get dragon riders without the flag if you raid a dragon nest, though its not guaranteed.

The problem is by the time you can farm dragon nest, the point of the game where dragon would make the most impact already pass by and the AI will be fielding ships with heavy steel armor and well fortified town. The main point of having dragons is to get a head start over the AI and catapult your Empire straight to late game, or just rush them all with dragons spam from the beginning.

[Jamarian]

I use scales because it provides extra money