Talk:Persians (Age of Empires II)/@comment-212.123.142.111-20150727112546/@comment-50.190.232.123-20151019232134

I believe the economic bonuses are less about historical accuracy and more about game balance. Their cavalry bonuses don't kick in until the castle age, so they needed to buff them a bit so they wouldn't get wiped out in the early game by civs like the Aztecs or Mongols that have very fast starts.