There is always a cost. Thats is why I had quoted such very high differential gold cost 800 and 1200 for infantry and cavalry respectively. Booming civs like Bengalis with Elite Ratha can overcome aggressive civs like frank paladins in late game using woots steel. Look at the image above, Woots steel will have delivered 60 damage extra for 12 hits from Elite Ratha thus killing the paladin 1 vs 1.
Yup! Agree. Even with woots steel, a legionary beats Elite Urumi. I think the splash damage is skewing “Mike - Zero empires” videos. But the range of 0.75 is too less to be able to have any effect in ranked games.
The castle age Urumi loses terribly against Roman long swordsmen. They are tied with Generic long swordsmen in 1Vs1 which means all that castle investment is a waste to produce Urumis.
I think this range attack of 1 tile like Kamyuk might be a good solution for the problem. Atleast Urumis will be able to deliver a stacked attack to an enemy with high HP and armour. To balance the unit, we can reduce the splash damage to 0.5 tiles.