Talk:Tarkan/@comment-49.199.241.254-20190712010650

The Tarkan is useless.

It's god awful in combat with other military units compared to the knight line. With only 1 melee armour, a slow rate of fire and meagre melee damage, even a Cavalier defeats an Elite Tarkan in a one-on-one fight, and the Cavalier comes off slightly cost effective as well (Source: http://aoe4fun.com/).

It costs 300 food and 300 gold to upgrade your Knights to Cavaliers, while it costs 1,000 Food and 500 Gold to upgrade your Tarkans to Elite Tarkans, yet the Cavalier wins in a one-on-one.

Needless to say the Hunnic Cavalier upgrades to the Paladin, which is even more cost effective versus the Tarkan (and for that matter, ALL other military units).

The Tarkan does inflict bonus damage against buildings, but even in that regard, seige weapons are just better. Huns have access to the Seige Ram and Trebuchet (which is 30% more accurate), both of which are much better at razing buildings than the Tarkan.

In my opinion, it is not advisable to upgrade both Tarkans and Knights; it's just too expensive to invest in both. Everytime I play as the Huns and I'm faced with this decision - 100 times out of 100 I'm going to pick the knight line. The Tarkan is just garbage.