Talk:Persians (Age of Empires II)/@comment-78.191.142.55-20190418212402/@comment-5688571-20190422064246

As a old version aoe 2 player, I dun think Perisan really need to improve even Perisan stay in a low pick and win rate. I dun understand new civ very much yet, please tell me if I am wrong.

Perisan has the full access to all economic technology, faster Town center from federal age(which is always ignored by people), 50 more food and wood in beginning.

In military, they have all stable units with full upgrade except battle elephant when they have War Elephant in castle as subtitle. Their Calvary archers have a shorter range but full upgraded armor(HUNs and Mongols do not have lv 3 archer armor but some special civ bonus, Only Japan, Indian, Saracens, Turks have full upgrade Calvery archers)

They dun have good archers, skir has a shorter range but they have hand cannon

They only miss “siege engineer” upgrade and heavy onager in siege weapon category.

They dun have 2 hand sword.

They dun have wall upgrade and bombard tower.

Persian econ isn’t the best but above average in most age. None of their stable unit is superior but all of them are good. They have the best overall Calvary and wide selection of backup from trash units, siege weapons and hand cannon. The only weakness should be its weaker buildings. Giving any other technology certainly make it op.

Persian is all-rounder. I dun know why aoe2 players, even the wiki describe it as a “one trick Elepony civ”, get owned in trash war when they actually have huge amount of technology and alright trash units.

As Persian is versatile, it is not the 1st choice for early rush/imperial fight, for whom tend to pick a civ which suit them most, they are excluded.

Persian is not the only civ with many tricks and always misunderstood as a Elephant only civ. For versatile style people may start with Byzantine, Spanish...

Many players in this game are unpreventable racism. Mother country/country with famous story /civ which have good reputation/high picking rate would be advantage.

Unfortunately, Perisan is always the invader/enemy in drama/movie…..

As some people nowadays like to watch stream or youtube to learn playing, they will start with the civ/character streamer use. This lead to a cycle.