umeu wrote:Obviously it's smaller, I never claimed otherwise. The Mongolian ponies were also smaller, yet they were sturdy and durable, much better at long distance. Anyway we're ralking about different things now, and we are straying from the original point that you made, which was clearly wrong.
It's silly to say that China having cavalry in the game is ahistorical because players decide to make mostly cavalry. It's equally ahistorical that ports spam pure dragoons or that French make mostly cuirs even though heavy cavalry was barely used anymore. In that way everything in aoe is ahistorical.
Also the role of European cavalry began to decline in the late 14th century already. And mass cavalry charges rarely dominated battlefields in the 15-17th century, with a few exceptions. They were mostly kept in the armies due to equestrian traditions of the nobility, and cavalry was useful in their role of scouting, foraging and raiding obviously, but this was a light cavalry job.
no, my original point was right. it's ahistorical. games are better when they are historical because they teach us about things as they really were.
No you are wrong, its not ahistorical for the qing to have cavalry in their unit roster in that time frame. That the player then chooses to make purely cavalry or artillery is up to their discretion and has nothing to do with history. It is neither historical or ahistorical
You said China training cavalry was ahistorical but that was clearly wrong. So you shifted to China didn't have an army mainly composed of cavalry which is correct but also totally irrelevant. It is a game not a simulation.
it's ahistorical that the game makes heavy cavalry the optimal choice for the player, since it implies that heavy cavalry occupied a role in the chinese military that it never did.
The game doesnt do that. Players do that. And if you are so stupid to think the chinese army would be 121 population strong and that if you make only flamethrowers, it would be an accurate representation of the chinese army, then no amount of history classes will remedy that stupidity. I guess you are beyond saving. But I must give you points for how hard you try to make it appear as if you werent wrong. You can change your initial statement a million times over, it remains wrong. So thats it for me, enjoy your trolling.
the only fool in a troll argument is the one who gets trolled
i know you troll, but that doesnt make you any less wrong.
Hey quick question about the actual op. Is a samwise build where you just try to idle all vills with huss and siege infrastructure (villages, rax, consulate) viable? Even if it's only like 5 huss 10 musk followed by an age up?
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