I definitely don't want to weaken the Elves, so in parallel with nerfing the Dancers and Archers, I suggested increasing the Fae's growth by 20%. The upgraded Archers are already top-tier in their tier, and the Alt Archer is an obvious overpowered unit. A similar situation exists with the Dancers: the upgraded ones are very strong (the best unit of tier 2), but if we raise the regular ones to their level without violating the concept, we will get simply insane additional damage for rushers, which will ruin the game (the Elves already have the strongest rush).
Unicorns or Dragons cannot be buffed (these are rush units again), and Ents can be buffed if desired (with the consent of the majority), but only in terms of damage (because a buff to hit points will seriously strengthen the Elf-Chaos hero).

What motivates the reduction in damage for the Human and Elf Alt Archers? These are not only super-strong units, but they also introduce a huge element of luck in mirror matches. Whoever shoots first one-shots the opponent's Archers, which is clearly not a very good practice (there was no such imbalance in any of the previous parts up to the 5th part).

I completely agree with this (especially the one-shot imbalance is annoying), and I was generally surprised that someone thinks that Unicorns are weak and need to be buffed:eek: - initiative, magic defense, decent HP for their level, and also Blind. Ents are also awesome - for me personally, they are the most amazing unit of level 6 in the entire game - units of this level suffer from low growth and a considerable cost, which leads to the fact that the loss of even one unit is noticeable - Ents are almost unkillable, and if you attach someone dangerous to them (for example, the same Chaos Demon), then you can practically ignore him - after rooting, the defense is off the charts + infinite retaliation, which makes the low initiative of the Ent a fact of not the first importance, and if you also take Nymphs, then you can even bring a couple of Ents back from the dead. By the way, regarding the Fae - the Alt version is a hundred times better than the upgraded one - symbiosis, higher damage (2-3 versus 2-2), the spells Remove Charm and Swarm can be ignored - at level 0, both spells are useless (in my mod, I gave Lay on Hands instead of symbiosis)