EpsTweak for Anti-Cavalry
EpsTweak is a series of small mods that tweak the balance of Civ 6. Rather than put all of them into one hefty package, I’ve split them into small fragments to allow you to make your own custom rulesets.
In unmodded Civ 6, Anti-Cavalry is the worst unit class due to the massive +10 strength advantage that Melee units have over them. It’s so bad that you never see Spearmen or Pikemen get any use, and fielding a defensive army depends entirely on whether the map’s RNG was kind enough to give you strategic resources.
So this mod removes that – Melee units no longer get any inherent bonus against Anti-Cavalry. To balance this out, Anti-Cavalry units now get a -7 strength penalty when attacking district defenses, and their "Schiltron" promotion grants +5 Strength against Melee instead of 10. Also, because this change would make Barbarian Camps much harder to attack, they now spawn a Melee unit as a defender instead of an Anti-Cavalry unit.
Note that unlike other EpsTweak mods, this one works in Vanilla and Rise & Fall in addition to Gathering Storm.
