Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-210.0.229.218-20180131044152/@comment-2607:FEA8:4DDF:F67D:55AC:3447:13AA:56F1-20180131184831

Heh, that would be hilariously broken.

Mayans start out pop-capped, so are forced to start Loom, meaning that they're on par with an average civilization until their opponent also researches loom. At that point, they're only one villager ahead.

Chinese don't start out pop-capped, thanks to their TC bonus, meaning that if they started with food, they could start building villagers right away. 25s is plenty to get your sheep under the TC with the 2x LoS bonus, meaning that they'd be 3 villagers ahead of their opponent the entire game.

That means you're collecting more resources, building more buildings and advancing faster than your opponent and that big of a lead snowballs incredibly quickly.

Basically, if they started with 50 food, on top of their current bonuses, no one would play any civilization on any map, except Chinese, because they'd have by far the best rushes, the best booms, the fastest times and still have among the best tech trees.