Could the new militia change end up buffing archers?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Think about it; with the speed change maa can run away from archers but still actually lose to them - the only units the now beat are skrims.

Given that spear/skirm is the counter to the common scout/archer wouldn’t going all in crazy on age2 and pushing with a gold heavy comp of maa/archer be really hard to hold?

Like, you make skirms to hold archers, then add a few spears to zone the scouts - but maa can also kill skirms now (if they try to stop and fight) and dont care about spears anyway.

Which civs could pull this off?

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Whenever this happens, it can go either way.

Similarly, does buffing infantry indirectly buff Cataphract/hand cannons or not depends on where on the curve we are.