Likely because it also has 33% less melee armor and 40% less pierce armor. As to why they have it in the first place, it’s because I guess rebalancing it after Mongols received it (they are going slow on the balance, like trying +1 attack last patch). Tbh if the Battle ele was a bad unit their addition to Indian wouldn’t be that much of a hassle to discuss.
I invite you to go read Balancing the new khmer - #29 by CactusSteak2171. I did genuinely think that mass eles aren’t that big of a problem but many people here disagree.
To be honest said stats make 0 sense especially for high level.
https://aoestats.io/civ/Indians/RM_1v1/1650+
I don’t think they can actually both 100% counter 5 civs while being 100% countered by 5 others.
Unfortunately this wouldn’t be enough. I know I’m repeating myself but I don’t think that most people who asked for BE on Indian will be happy to see they are the worse BE civ. Just imagine Franks being the worse knight civ or Brits the worse archer civ. We do have Spanish being so bad at crossbows they don’t get it but this issue has been 100% accepted by Spanish fans/citizens (as to why: no idea)
Sure he disagrees about this decision. Just like you could disagree about the fact his team completely screwed Korean design. In the end both of these innacuracies are just AoE things.