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Did you watch the tournament? The Dwarves were crushing everyone. They need to be nerfed, and severely. The second overpowered faction is Humans. Training 20 Paladins a week is excessive. Either the second building for retraining should be removed, or the cost of training Paladins should be increased. Let them train Archers. Dwarves should have the Rune of Exorcism, Elemental Resistance, and Magic Ward banned. In the tournament, I think everyone saw that they are completely overpowered.

Demons are usually played as archers, in the Chaos league.

If you think about it, it's easy to understand that upgrading SA (by the way, it's not available in the mod and is very situational) is not the same as using runes, which are easily accessible and cost almost nothing (and give advantages that are almost as great as the 3rd level of Wrath, but okay).

Do you often see them in online games? Or maybe it's time to use your brain and realize that the convenience of leveling up and implementation is much more important than some pseudo-overpowered things.

This needs to be addressed, especially when the vast majority of games end with a rush. Or when rushes can be so overwhelming that they are impossible to defend against.

I'm saying that it's too predictable, and it's very difficult to assemble other builds.

If it's too predictable, then the defense is also predictable, hence players can take a step to the right or left of this predictability. Knowing that there will be a demon-engineer, you can take control of the machines, and knowing that there will be control over the machines, you can take the rest of the machines, so that there is a 1 in 3 chance of subduing a ballista.
In general, if we are talking about rushing and other things, it seems to me that this mod could accelerate the development of heroes, so that they meet not in the middle, as it is now (and as practice shows, the middle is different for everyone), but at the end, when the hero is fully upgraded, with all the perks and abilities that the player wanted. And it would be possible to make a huge map, with huge locations and strong mobs (or make it by zones, with the player's Castle in the center, around it a weak zone, around which a middle zone, around all this a zone with strong mobs, and from the last zone a transition to the central zone without mobs, from where you can go to the strong zones of other players), then there would be no rush, as the mobs would not let you through, and it would take a long time to get there, but all races would not be offended, and demons (you could level up Nimue with his special ability), and necromancers (with a large number of mobs, you could raise a sufficient army)
But this is my vision of solving the current situation. And in general, if we are talking about tournaments, then everything should be the same, and only resourcefulness and ingenuity will be the main advantage.

back then, there wouldn't be any rushing, as mobs wouldn't be allowed, and it would take a long time to get there.

This is unfortunate:
1) Mobs prevent entry - no rushes are possible.
2) Mobs prevent entry - no scouting of the opponent's actions.
3) Mobs prevent entry - no harassing enemy objects with small units.
4) It takes a long time to get there - no timed attacks.
5) In addition, current maps in turn-based multiplayer mode lack secondary cities - no expansion.

What does strategy degenerate into then? Into pure linear development, an RPG with mob clearing and a tactical battle at the end. Into everyone playing in their own sandbox 90% of the time, with no interaction with the opponent.

Large maps are good from the point of view of a single playthrough (campaign, single-player), but in multiplayer, you need to play dozens or hundreds of games, and the scenario of "developing to the very end with all the perks and abilities" is not exactly diverse.