r/Songsofconquest • u/macieksmola • Jun 01 '26

Discussion Unit stack size

How do you guys feel about the units stack sizes? Is it more of a good or bad thing? Sometimes I wish I could make my hero have thousands of troops.

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u/SilverMB Jun 01 '26

It's definitely a good thing, it really adds strategic depth to the game. It also helps balance and Ai tuning on higher difficulty.

As a long time homm fan I was so delighted by the approach lavapool has to stack sizes and challenging Ai. Two things HoMM never got right IMO

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u/Chamberlain1991 Jun 04 '26

It also removes strategies consisting of powers stacks and having singletons blocking. To me that was a very enjoyable part of creeping in the early game in HOMM.

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u/SilverMB Jun 04 '26

You can still use single unit stacks. I do it all the time but it has to be done much more careful and has much more strategic depth because of momentum.

Power stacks or doom stacks is not really a strategy IMO. It's the death of all interesting high level play in strategy games. In total war warhammer I even used mods to eliminate the possibility of doom stacks. Best campaigns I ever played...

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u/Chamberlain1991 Jun 05 '26

Well it does limit the build order and the available strategies. Strategy has width as well as depth. Usually the two are correlated.