Underwhelming Mercenaries and How to Buff Them

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@ARSalerno3

I also think the Ming Iron Troop is nonsense. He has a guandao, his melee attack should be massive, I think they should have like a melee attack of 25, times 2 against melee cavalry and times 2 against heavy infantry. That would FORCE you to really be cautious in how you want to deal with them. I could easily see the bonus against cavalry being too much, but they are NOT a skirmisher, they’re wearing heavy armor, they should match that. I thought they were heavy infantry when I first used them back when the Asian Dynasties launched lol.

@FourCloud176402

Iron Troop: Very good against most infantry. However, the unit feels redundant sometimes, since CKN and Arqs are good enough in most cases.

I think a [possible] solution would be to change the iron troop into a pike-archer hybrid, like the azap. He would swap his range armor to melee armor while in melee mode, although 60% would be too much in my opinion. Some stats adjustments would be necessary of course. What do you think?