I’ll refer of what I said in my previous post about kamandaran an the trash war system (it was a post before the previous nerf, so I made this post with 50 wood archer).
In castle age it’s insane. You get the best castle age unit for no gold. You just save more gold for lategame. When you hit imp you wasted less gold in castle age. And on some map, its usual to see castle (arena for example).
A nerf to 70 wood would be enough I think. If you flood them in castle, you don’t have enough wood for farms , ect… which you need to go to imp. wood is “costly” in castle. I can live with it. In imp it’s another problem. If they had no ring armor archer I could live with it, but there… they only lack bracer (and arba upgrade). It’s still a 8 damage archer with the same resist as any other archer.
I even got a megaRandom map whith literally 20 golds pile on the whole map. We started with a castle. I was playing Persian. Guess what was my strat as a cavalery civ? 11