I think red line skills are too good, and forgoes any decision tree regarding when to take them.  Also they encourage doomstacking which is terrible.  I've heard of an elegant solution to this issue from this forum:

Units which are buffed via red line skills also have their upkeep increased (lord's army) proportionately.  This way if you maxed out buffs for say Handgunners, their inflated upkeep would discourage you from having too many Handgunner units in the army.

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Sandboxhead#8494 wrote:

I think red line skills are too good, and forgoes any decision tree regarding when to take them.  Also they encourage doomstacking which is terrible.  I've heard of an elegant solution to this issue from this forum:

Units which are buffed via red line skills also have their upkeep increased (lord's army) proportionately.  This way if you maxed out buffs for say Handgunners, their inflated upkeep would discourage you from having too many Handgunner units in the army.

Thats a good suggestion. 

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Sandboxhead#8494 wrote:

I think red line skills are too good, and forgoes any decision tree regarding when to take them.  Also they encourage doomstacking which is terrible.  I've heard of an elegant solution to this issue from this forum:

Units which are buffed via red line skills also have their upkeep increased (lord's army) proportionately.  This way if you maxed out buffs for say Handgunners, their inflated upkeep would discourage you from having too many Handgunner units in the army.

Yep, there should be a balancing element to redline skills because as it stands they increase the punch of your entire army considerably. That increased punch should come with some sort of cost-factor.

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Sandboxhead#8494 wrote:

I think red line skills are too good, and forgoes any decision tree regarding when to take them.  Also they encourage doomstacking which is terrible.  I've heard of an elegant solution to this issue from this forum:

Units which are buffed via red line skills also have their upkeep increased (lord's army) proportionately.  This way if you maxed out buffs for say Handgunners, their inflated upkeep would discourage you from having too many Handgunner units in the army.

Nice, I like that.

Other thought I have had around the latter half of the red line is, instead of all 4, 1 or 2 maybe, then the other 2/3 locked. But I think maybe cost is better. +1 from me