📜 Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition — Update 36906

Great patch as usual as a whole!

I’m not sure though the Lithuanians needed such a massive buff, considering they already enjoyed a relatively comfortable positive winrate for all levels of players, except for the very best (cf. https://aoestats.io/civ/Lithuanians/RM_1v1 and https://www.aoe-tc.com/)…
A Lithuanian imperial skirmisher now has more pierce armor than a Huskarl! The Leitis can slaughter Teutonic armies and is so cheap in gold!! One shouldn’t forget the relic bonus as well, so if there is a team with, say, the Burmese, the Leitis definitely feels OP to me. I do like the relic bonus, my problem is more the Leitis’s gold cost.

Speaking of Teutons, I love them and they have been my favorite civ. for 20 years, since AoK until DE (now it’s the Bulgarians). Therefore I of course still have a very soft spot for them and wish them all the best. Only the stable buff just seems too-much.
It just doesn’t feel right for me that the Teutons, marked as an infantry civilization, now have a stronger paladin then the Cumans, marked as a cavalry civilization!

Speaking of Cumans, considering they are now arguably the weakest civ. in the game (as they don’t even have an excellent navy as the other civs. at the bottom, see https://aoestats.io/ and https://www.aoe-tc.com/), I maintain they should get bracer (see for the whole The Cuman Kipchak - An Analysis). As I think the main problem is the too-weak kipchak, the second proposition of Walkop, in effect bracer, but reserved to the kipchak himself (+1 damage to the standard kipchak & +1 range to the elite kipchak, see The Cuman Kipchak - An Analysis), seems to me a good alternative idea.
I would support a gold cost in the elite kipchak upgrade as well as an increase in the gold cost per unit.

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