An idea to improve Swordsman-line. Remove Long Swordsman upgrade entirely. If Man-At-Arms researched then upon reaching Castle Age, auto upgrades to Long Swordsman

At least if we want to bring an Infantry line to the state it can compete with the other “Power Units”.

I see mainly three options for that:

A) Make Scorpions “trash”, but less generally powerful

B) A new trash Infantry line (Axeman eg) that counters other Infantry

C) A new Archer Line speciaised to counter Infantry EG the Lightbowman

And some Infantry units could get a small resistance to that anti-Infantry bonus damage of the trash counter unit. Not necessarily the Militia Line (Gambesons could give a small amount), but more expensive stuff like TK and Huskarls.

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