Talk:Paladin/@comment-190.237.183.252-20151112170619/@comment-26842175-20151112172134

I agree about the fact that francish Paladins are not so extremely powerfull. But their castles are cheap and do have all defensive upgrades. Their trowing axeman can be usefull for ranged support and cost little per unit, but the upgrades are quite expensive. They also poses bombard cannons with siege engineers, which is usefull against other siege equipment.

Their archers are weak, they can't rely on skirmishers vs. an archer civ, since they lack tumb ring, bracer and ring armor. While some civs do have hussars with 95HP, the french have to do with Light Cavalry, which lacks bloodlins (though they get +12 HP bonus in AK). Before the forgotten was introduced their infantry was also slow.