Talk:Chariot (Age of Empires)/@comment-27726014-20181220073848/@comment-115.70.21.169-20191120054754

The Egyptian and other mediteranian civ nobility superseced the bronze and iorn ages by centuries and millenia. By the time of these AOE states, the Nobility already had private stock piles of gold collected over those centuries, and so they didn't need the state to mine and fund the gold needed to build the nobles' Chariots. All the state had to provide was the man power (food) and wood.

The nobles maintained the chariots for pride (like Supercars owners), so though Charioteers didn't burden the state in terms of gold, the trade off was the Charioteers were not professional soilders, hence their lower HP and Attack compared to Cavalry (Professional Soilders States have to fully fund),.i.e. like driving ability of Super Car Owners vs Professional Race Drivers.