Talk:Conquistador (Age of Empires III)/@comment-207.89.61.17-20170303044638/@comment-30016491-20190627063749

To be fair the Conquistador in AOE II wasn't a historically accurate unit but rather a fusion of the many advantages Spanish explorers had over the Mesoamericans (i.e. gunpowder, horses and steel armor) rather than what the real conquistadors would have used in battle all at once. Their matchlock rifles would have been impractical to use on horseback as they were too big, and that would have made it slow to charge and fire while riding at the same time. This was why heavily armored cavalry made use of short ranged pistols around that time instead of the long rifles carried by infantry. So in essence I think AOE III were being more sensible by not making this unit so ridiculously effective with the gear they carried as they did in the previous game.