Talk:War Wagon (Age of Empires II)/@comment-216.30.186.146-20160915154749

This is probably my favorite unit in the game. Their list of pros is huge:

- Outfight most archers due to high pierce armor

- Kites infantry with speed

- High HP and large unit size (less clumping) means they can fight cost-effectively against onagers, which are usually the bane of archers (it takes 4 siege onager shots to kill a fully-upgraded elite war wagon)

- Extremely population efficient

- Wood intensive rather than gold intensive, thus less likely to run you dry of gold

- High HP + speed + ranged combination allows them to be cycled back from the front lines for monk healing; I often walk away from battles where hundreds of units die and lose less than 10 war wagons

Combined with Korean Siege Onagers, bombard cannons, monks, and a steady flow of cheap halberdiers (or champions if fighting the Goth to counter Huskarls), you have a virtually unstoppable post-imperial army.