As most of us may have noticed, DE has been encouraging the use of cavalry UU as they have shortened the training time of Boyar, Leitis, Keshik etc, and made 15 seconds for the new Coustilier, so they can almost match the production of knight line in stable. Infantry UU are often very fast to produce (their limitation are often high food cost), which left those archer UU in behind a lot now. Sure Devs do notice this, and cut the training time of Genoese xbow. But I still notice some ranged UU which are discouraging to use due to long training time:
Mangudai (26s, it could potentially be broken if the training time is too short, but 26s made it so hard to mass even in closed map. extremely difficult to replace if you died a big team of them)
Conqs (24s, definitely OK in castle age as they are dominant and expensive. But it gotta be shorter in imperial)
Mamelukes (23s, one of main reasons they are not commonly seen, heavy unit cost + heaving castle cost)
Kipchaks (20s, the time seems reasonable, but this unit is weak without massing. Recently used them vs Plumes in Fortress, they are so weak without bloodlines)
Longbow (18s, for cost efficiency, this is way too long, so arbalests are preferred in 90% of situations)
- no need
- 1-2 seconds
- 2-3 seconds
- 3-4 seconds
- 4-5 seconds
- 5 seconds or more
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