increase pierce armor
Gambesons greets. Didn’t seem to do too much in general. But there are notably now some Archer civs like Britons who seem to have issues with good Infantry civs.
Pierce Armor is a really tough stat to change cause one of it can “make or break” a unit entirely.
Especially since Gambesons came out I learned that the OG 1 PA was actually ideal for the Balance between Archer, CA and Hand Cannons in the ability to counter the line.
2 PA already makes it quite hard for Archers to counter them - meaning with a lower Archer amount it’s really, really tough. Whilst Hand Cannons still work very well.
Ofc extra Pierce Armor would help the unit massively in the midgame. But then the question emerges what then will be the counter unit? Very easy to see the potential to break the game there.
So on it’s own it’s probably more a D than a C Tier. With massive compensatory tweaks it ofc can bring it up to A-Tier. But it would be quite some work to get there.