Talk:Heavy Scorpion/@comment-91.4.165.59-20171014032852/@comment-121.202.87.237-20171101095928

If you watch more high level games, especally 1v1, you would be way better off having a handful of Onagers more or less by themselves with a small retinue of Halbardir or Monks making short work of most light response and force the other your opponent to make units that can be counter easily, unless you have access to Bombard Cannon or having Trebuchet set up of their LOS.

They are often spear heading the pitch battle tug o war in hope of keeping mass troops and pull out of the rest of the combat to be conserved.

In team games you have allies to lure enemy in range, if not simply having more gold around to get Onagers to wreck anyone unprepared.

While Scorpions cannot do any of the above, and doesn't kill anything fast enough to justify their slow movement. They would be much better if they are acutally direct fire Trebuchet like they are historically or more like Chinese ones which utilize the Chu Ko No design.