Talk:Berserk/@comment-68.40.22.231-20170620184848

Fully upgraded Elite Berserks are just highly useful and quite inexpensive when you take everything into account. They take out most infantry 1v1 (iirc Teutonic Knights, Samurai, and Jaguar Warriors are the only Infantry that actually win), along with Light to Medium calvary (Hussars, Camels, Magyar Huszars, Tarkan, War Wagons, Mameluke) while still inflicting hefty damage to Cavaliers and Paladins, and inflicting heavy building damage. They're hard to mass because Castles, but they're very good, general-purpose heavy infantry. Against mass Calvary, yes Pikes are cheaper are more effective, but they're literally useless against Skirmishers, buildings, and infantry. All that versaitility in one population slot is quit good especially when you're filling transport ships and rams. You can throw Berserks at nearly anything and get in a good hit. Very reliable.

Raw resources, it's overall less expensive to upgrade Berserks + Arbalests than it is to upgrade Champs + Pikes + Arbalests, and they handle everything except massed siege and Cataphracts quite well. Their only drawback, imo, is how many Castles you can set up.