Talk:Saracens/@comment-2602:306:CCB2:1FE0:8509:2D11:410A:66AA-20170722235103/@comment-26055251-20170806133313

I'm with you, I'm interrested in history and this bonus baffled me for years. I allways thought it's refference to some legendary battle, maybe conquest of Jerusalem or some other city but I haven't found anything about that. The closest thing I've found so far was about "naffatins":

"... Incendiary weapons could be used to set fire to towns and fortifications, and a wide range of thermal weapons were used against enemy personnel. Some armies developed specialised "fire-troops". By 837, many Muslim armies had groups of "naffatin" (fire archers), ... " Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_thermal_weapons#Techniques_of_use

But I don't know ... I'm somehow not satisfied with this explanation :) I'll search more

To be honest, my second version was that it was either a mistake or a last minute ballance change that somehow persisted until now. Gosh I'd love to ask AoE developers what was the reason behind that