Talk:Halberdier (Age of Empires II)/@comment-27977344-20160314130034/@comment-28413632-20160803134330

It still doesn't make too much sense, since Japanese get Halbs and have the 33% atk speed bonus.

You see, the non-existent FU Viking halb would have 72 hit points, and a rate of fire of 3.So, in a battle with a FU generic Paladin (with 18 attack and a rate of fire of 1.93) the Halb would lose after 5 hits (instead of the usual 4) and would have landed 3 hits.

The FU Japanese halb has 60 hit points and a ROF of 2.Under the same conditions, the Halb dies after 4 hits, and would also land 3 hits.

So, the actual damage output against cavalry would be somewhat the same for a Viking halb -surely, that's not the actual case against each different cavalry unit, i'm just giving an example-, overpowered, of course, -just like the OP Japanese halb- but not unbalanced.

I'm guessing that a Viking Halb would probably be too overpowered against other kinds of units, and that's why it doesn't exist, but against cavalry it'd more or less behave like the japanese one.

Just a thought.