Talk:Jaguar Warrior/@comment-78.8.0.103-20170202191121/@comment-26842175-20170827180251

First of all, I play mostly 1 vs. 1 arabia, where getting a castle is quite an expense early on, and you will later on still struggle to get enough castles to amass UU.

Personally, I think that people overestimate Huskarls. The base cost of a Huskarl is 120 resources, who would want to pay that for such an unit? IMHO, the Huskarl is not a strong unit, but the gothic cost reduction is great. As a goth player I would favour the militia line, due to being very cheap and accesible for goths. By the way: In a goth-war, I believe that halbediers can cost-efficiently fight huskarls, which is ridiculous.

My problem with jaguar warriors is that getting them fully upgraded is expensive, as Garland wars is quite expensive. Increased attacks means nothing if your oponents ranged units can kill you before you can do damage, which is why I would favour HP bonusses over attack bonusses for mellee units. Furthermore they don't have a fast training time.

My favourite would go to Kamayuk, The UT courriers is really cheap and that gives the Kamayuk 5/6 armor along with 80 HP, which is quite tanky. The range is also quite usefull and there is the bonus against cavalry. Furthermore Kamayuks train quite quickly, which is also important for castle units.

I would also like to give an honourable mention to Trowing Axeman (even more range and quite cheap) and condottiero.