Castle Age Condottiero?

Yeah that is a good point. I was thinking of a bonus like availability in castle age to follow the OP.

My whole point is that it is very difficult to buff the unit since it affects all the civs, not just the Italians.

And Italians do not need a buffed condo, but other buffs for sure.

So I have several doubts about a condo buff…

This problem happened when Italians was just introduced. Condo resists to anti-infantry bonus dmg, making it very good for infantry civs allies.

Italians have Pavise, yet Condos is still quite weak. I think +1/2 atk for them is OK.

This deprives the immediate availability upon reaching imperial age. One of the selling point is that Condos does not need upgrade.

This thing should be designed carefully, indeed I am not a big supporter of condos or condo buff. The only thing that I see is making them a replacement of Champions for Italians as they hit imp but the unit cost should be changed.

Malians and Vikings have solid condos. Italians need other kind of buffs imo.