Talk:Skirmisher (Age of Empires II)/@comment-24444169-20180206093142/@comment-24444169-20180206173824

It's ok, I didn't get the impression you were discouraging discussions on the Wikia. I did at first but the mistake was mine because I believed you had totally removed my text.

As far as I'm concerned, I understand your principle and it seems to underline well the way the table functions. In this case, it is the table to be either mediocre in the way it is designed (it doesn't welcome different degrees of effectiveness of unit X vs unit Y), or requiring a legend which explains its meaning in the way you did right now with your comment.

Of course revising all these tables just because I advised to do so would be crazy, but I think you can see what I mean with "degree of effectiveness". When one is talking about certain units with simple counters and strengths no need to go deeper is required, because the reader can look at the table and know precisely what he needs to train in order to defeat X unit; however, with some unit types the table faces a conflict (imho) either missing key information or becoming misleading.

I won't propose an alternative because like I mentioned I think I'm expecting too much work from strangers (I could even help do this but it would still take some effort), and the wikia has fared well for years without this improvement. For now I think the tactical sections should accomodate for an in-depth analyses of the counters and cost-efficient uses of the respective unit