They should just have it as a Quechua Slinger more like the Aztec Otontin Slinger.
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Maigadi, bolas warriors. Both have range resist
Bolas warriors were great awhile ago but it seems anything remotely good for the inca gets nerfed next patch.
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Are Huarraca useful? I keep trying to use them and they seem useless. The last game I just played, I had a bunch of them vs 3-4 gatling guns with no other units around and they got utterly annihilated and did nothing. Arenāt they specifically supposed to counter artillery? They donāt seem to be good against anything other than buildings. Another time I had a cost efficient number vs troops and the Mexican hero simply ran close to them so they kept targeting him when I attack moved and they did minimal damage to him meanwhile all the troops were killing the Huaraccas. What am I missing?
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Huaracas are not good anymore, they now have neagtive multipliers vs infantry and cavalry and the only unit you actually want them to kill (artillery) also have more range than huaracas and counter huaracas because theyāre infantry.
Thats such a shame, was such a cool looking unit, I wanted to try Inca because of the unit. I thought āoh cool, abus guns for a native civ!ā So the only way to counter heavy infantry that everyone loves to spam are Jungle bowmen and get blown away by cannons? Hmm maybe Iāll passā¦ What kind of unit composition am I supposed to use to actually win a game? Can maceman break even with muskets on a cost basis?
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They used to be like abus guns because they do siege damage so they were quite strong vs infantry even though they are designed to be anti-artillery, they nerfed them heavily vs inf and cav and didnāt buff them vs artillery at all, they actually nerfed them vs artillery then reverted the change lol.
Only real option currently is to go jungle bowmen vs heavy infantry and suicide some chimu to kill cannons, itās not cost effective though.
With inca itās important to get your 10 priestesses dancing on the plaza and use the attack dance to buff your units during fights which makes up a bit for being at such a disadvantage.
Macemen are actually quite strong, basically skull knights with range resist, you need to send the road building card to give them 10% more speed though so they can get into melee fast, melee infantry combat buffs them a lot too and the war hut big button tech is worth getting for another 5% range resist.
I used to main inca pretty much from release but in itās current state Iād just recommend choosing another civ, malta is my new favourite.
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still have x1.5, so now they do 35 damage instead of 40
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Where are people getting the ānegative bonusā idea from? When it says ā1.5ā bonus vs infantry, does that include light infantry or just heavy? It seems like it would still be good vs heavy and light. Maybe it is the rate of fire that messes it up? I canāt figure out why they arenāt better than they appear to be in actual games.
It is kind of weird how soldado have similar melee attack yet are cheaper and spawn quicker from multiple haciendos compared to having half the tribe on the firepit.
I personally remembered it wrong, they changed it recently and lowered the multiplier. It used to be 2x vs infantry and they lowered it to 1.5x.
The unit was good vs infantry before, basically an abus gun but now it is significantly worse when combined with itās very slow firing animation. It also does half as much damage as an abus gun while firing about the same speed when you take the animation into account and is 2 population just the same and a similar price.
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huh I never noticed this but the Huaracas isnt affected by the attack boosting ceremony. was that intended?
I think all units are it just doesnāt show on their stats when you click on them.
ok yeah from testing it it does seem to get he boost, just hidden for some weird reason
the other units changes the stat numbers when you change to the ceremony
It shouldnt then. Attack ceremony boosts range attackš¹, not siege oneš£.
after check this further, it does affect other units that deal siege damage in their range attack like the grenadiers as well, so its not about the type of damage but the attack type
Though the grenadiers suffer from the same problem that the stat change isnt reflected in the UI
this doesnt seem to be a problem for other units that doesnt deal range damge in the range attack though, the dervisher UI does change
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I think this units could be rescued from the WOL mod. 
Manco Horseman
Auca Runa
Pishtaco
These units could be used to replace or complement the Inca civilization. 
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Huaraca has an animation before firing, during which the artillery may have already fired. So huaraca takes a lof of damage
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I actually think Inca is the worst civ in the game right now. Its the only civ I can almost never win a game using. I do better even with Ports. They are just so screwed vs artillery its not even funny. I think they should give them a card such as Hausa has which after it is sent it allows them to recruit something that actually works vs. artillery. Such as the Somali Darood (skirm specialized vs artillery) or something, it would send a batch of them and make them show up in the native embassy.
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I think the answer to most of incas problems is 1 of 2 things itās either give huaracas more range or siege resist so they can effectively counter falconets or allow training of light cannons in age 4 like haud have, even if it requires a card itās better than nothing.
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Light canons would be good or huarrca range buff. Macemen being 3 pop is far too much, its a 2 pop unit and it costs too much res, perhaps give them an ability to jump forward (on a cooldown) into units to help them with catch as inca does not have a cav unit to take skirm attacks or attilery shots, maybe inflict AOE damage when they land? That would be cool. Atm they are far too slow and too low hp (688) to be used against a mass like in treaty.
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