Talk:Slinger (Age of Empires II)/@comment-64.30.250.235-20151221033217

So to clarify to people in the comments: They do not require castles to be built. They do need a castle to lose the minimum range (this is pretty essential since this draw back makes it difficult to take out swarmed infantry). The Huskarls do not nullify the bonus. Post Imperial, Huskarls take 11 damage total. 1 from normal damage, 10 from bonus damage. They also do 10 bonus damage against slingers, which is probably part of the confusion. A huskarl will kill a slinger in 2-3 shots. While a slinger kills a Huskarl in 7. They benefit from balistics and (I believe) Thumb ring. Although I haven't tested this. Their draw backs are they do less damage against other units the hand cannoneer has a base of 17 against. So they're pretty much only good against infantry. The huge thing about them is that they are a castle age gunpowder unit.