Talk:Ballista Elephant/@comment-2.247.250.90-20171118123307/@comment-2.247.250.90-20171118140012

also... to max out BEs you need to invest a lot in terms of upgrades, before even getting to the point of spitting out many of those, for 80gold each (+ 100 food). For trebs, in comparison, you only need a castle (which is true for both of these units, anyway) in imperial age...

So it's either bare BE's in a 5/2 ratio bringing the fight to the Trebs (a tad bit better than 5/2, for the one time investment of the defender, for developing imperial age), of it's worse of a ratio (given equal economy), for the primary investment (the defenders cost of developing imperial age becomes a wash then, anyway).