Ghulam – Hindustani unique infantry unit that thrusts its spear through multiple targets. Strong vs. archers. Weak vs. cavalry.
So, this unit is tanky, has high pierce armor And even as a spear, yet weak to cavalry somehow? Ghulam seem to be slower moving version of the Huskarl, and can only be made in a castle.
How does this unit fair when compared to the Huskarl? I’m sure it will be most costly as well. Might cost something along the lines of a teutonic knight, and might even slow movement speed like them.
If you see the video you can see the sprint of the Ghulam
I don’t think it’s a slower version of the Huskarl, it seems more like an Eagle with high PA and 1 range similar to the Kamayuk
It will be perfect against a group of pack archers
It may do full damage to the unit in front and still damage the unit behind
It’s what I imagine from the description and from the video
I thought of it closer to an eagle warrior or Malian infantry.
It’ll be faster and it’s aoe attack (in a line) will damage multiple archers, but does low damage and that’s why larger tanky units like Knights will beat it
Just because it has a spear doesn’t mean it’ll rek cav
But ill guess something like 4PA base(2dmg from arbs) or maybe even 3 so it’s not as tanky as eagles. 1.1 speed. 8 dmg in a line(just picking numbers out of the air, could do the math later)
i think it will have low attack and a bit of bonus damage against archers
Otherwise with the thrust effect it could be really strong against mass infantry aswell which I think isn’t intended. (It can be decent, but shouldn’t be like kamayuk which shredd mass infantry besides having already reduced base damage.)
The tech tree only states they are weak to cavalry, so I suppose the unit is left to be good vs infantry units because they have small hitboxes, while cavalry units are bigger so you can only ever hurt one at a time.
So that’s it’s no longer a “here get your castle age janissary one age too late” tech. And it’s probably a good idea to make it worse vs infantry than kamayuk is, we just can’t quite know yet whether they followed said good idea.
There are already so many Knight clone Unique Units, a Throwing axeman clone Unique Unit, many Champion clone Unique Units, and many War Elephant clone elephant units… Didn’t see you complaining then
Nah it’s clearly a specialised unit designed to compensate for their light cav losing 1 PA in castle age.
Might be strong VS archers but most likely kinda bad vs evrything else.
I don’t think the Ghulam is “good against archers” just because of Pierce Armor. We have to consider that that might be because of the fact that archers tend to clump up together really easily, and that the Ghulam is able to hit multiple units simultaneously with the spear, thus countering archers that are tightly packed in enclosed spaces.