The Egyptian Chariot Archer should be nerfed because it has too much attack range, too much rate of fire, and too much pierce damage per second and is fast unit in speed.
Egyptian players are taking advantage of this and they are spamming several Egyptian Chariot Archers which is practically impossible to counter.
Comparison between the best Greek archer (Hades) and the Egyptian Chariot Archer.
Lets see:
Tox dps: 12.6/1.1 = 11.45; 5.72 per pop (not including the poison)
Chariot dps: 20.9/1.5 = 13.93; 4.64 per pop
So this tox has more dps per pop with all upgrades without it would be 4.4, which is close.
Tox: trains in a cheap, production building.
Chariot: trains in exoansive forts
So tox is easyer to train.
Tox: archer
Chariot: cavalry and archer
So chariots recive bonus damage from more targets.
What chariota have? Speed and range obviously.
Regardless, comparing one unit between 2 completely different civs in a vacume is meaningless, everyrhing is different!
Sometimes greeks have the upper hand, sometimes Egyptians. Thats the whole point of asymetric civs.
Chariot Archers require you to be in Heroic Age (Age III) and build a Migdol Stronghold (Fortress Type Building) to produce them from and they are more expensive in cost to train (100 Wood and 40 Gold vs. 55 Wood and 35 Gold) while taking up more population each (3 vs 2) with a slower rate of fire then take bonus damage from both anti-cavalry and anti-archer attacks.
Chariot Archers recently got +5 Hit Points and +1 attack because they weren’t that good. Chariot Archers IMO don’t need to be nerfed.
Currently, Egyptian players are only spamming Egyptian Chariot Archers and kiting the enemy. Honestly, who cares about the cost when your unit is so overpowered? Plus, Egyptian Chariot Archers are very fast they attack, retreat, and attack again because they are untouchable and have a very long attack range… With those stats, an Egyptian player could easily win any match just by spamming Chariot Archers and a few other units. definitely the Egyptian Chariot Archers need to be nerfed
less cost effective than toxotes
requires migdol and tier 3
only has one god specific upgrade, toxotes have several
gets counted as cavalary and archer so gets countered by both counters
you keep claiming the chariot archer is overpowered when it simply isn’t. The only aspect where math really changed is that greeks can no longer counter chariots by spamming their far superior toxotes, which was a good change.
Not quite true. They can be effectively countered with anti archer, anti calvalry as Greeks (which I mostly play) and other civs. The speed and range is part of their strength but not unstoppable.
No , it’s horrible to play against an Egyptian rival, they only play with only Egyptian Chariot Archer
My man, Egypt has been massing chariot archers since forever. Even before the latest buffs.
And no, is not used 100% of the time.
CAs are fine. Is a strong unit, sure, as many others.
They should reduce the range by 1, I think. The unit already has many benefits. I don’t understand why so much, or else lower the damage a little.
