User blog comment:Dark Paladin X/Dark Paladin X Civ Crafting Corner: The Tibetans/@comment-27274076-20161002044123/@comment-405747-20161002173713

@ Maste rBroccoli Paladins ARE meant to screw over archers and are meant to be powerful lategame raiding units (and it also reflects the Tibetans historically, since their frontline cavalry wore so much armor that crossbow bolts and arrows didn't do much damage to their armor, which is why the Tang dynasty had such a hard time facing the Tibetans). You also forget that the Stable units also get +10 HP, so a fully upgraded Paladin should have 5 armor, 9 pierce armor, 190 HP, and 18 attack. You also forget to mention that Turks have 100 HP HCA and Magyars have extra range of their Cavalry archers, so it's a fair share of game where their Imperial Cavalry Archers will be the best with better movement speed (at least it's better than my original idea of having cavalry archers having a faster firing rate).