Talk:Recurve Bow/@comment-79.164.176.3-20170217224719/@comment-79.164.176.3-20170614172012

Mercnaries in Castle Age saves a lot more gold, especially if you choose to use MH as raider and build them before trash wars in considerable numbers rather then as late game trash unit only. Moreover, the Bow in Castle Age would made the Magyars the weirdest civ ever - they would lost trash huszars in CA, which means less effective harrasing (you can't spam huszars so reckless, although they are already cheap, and obviosly you should research Mercnaries ASAP for the best effect), and +1 range for CA's isn't a really big bonus unless you play treaty game or manage to reach post-Imperial, as CA have small range, thus +1 range usually grants just one more firing line, which isn't useful unless you field a big horde of CA's.

Btw, i really love the Magyars for their great raiding bonuses, but outside Feudal they seems to be a weaker version of the Mongols, which booms faster, have emphasis on light cav (which is still weaker than huszars, but easier to spam) and CA's, and have amazing seige weapons. On the other hand, the Magyars have greater potential in trash wars, but they lack bonuses both to crush enemy before extermly late game (with expection of FU paladin spam, which is not unique) and to turtle to the very end (actually, their defences are rather weak), so trash war bonus seems to be compensation of sorts for weak Castle and early Imperial.