Talk:Slinger (Age of Empires II)/@comment-73.172.60.23-20170215155436/@comment-26842175-20170215185601

Skirms win vs. Slingers, so you did make a mistake (skirm has a lot of pierce+bonus attack).

If Huskarls die before they can reach the Slingers, thier defence is useless. Bonus attack ignores armor, so slingers do 10 damage vs. huskarls. Huskarls barely outperform samurai's against slingers. A Huskarl can dies after 7 hits of a slinger while a samurai dies after 6, so the defensive boost is not that big.

About the first comment: Slingers are better than xbows. Condottieri is not weak against xbow, since xbow is a castle age unit and condottiero is imperial. If you want to match Condottieri, you do at least need arbalests. At least that is what I would think.