Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-73.199.138.93-20160719010258/@comment-405747-20161013025039

Okay, here's a thing about giving the Chinese Hand Cannoneers and Bombard Cannons. If you were to give them such units, the Chinese will end up being one of the most broken civilizations in the game and you'll need to nerf other areas in their tech tree. The Chinese are meant be a difficult but awesome jack of all trades civilization that is supposed to have no inherit strengths or weaknesses (well rounded archery range, FU infantry, decent cavalry only missing out in Paladin and Hussar, reasonable monk rush thanks to cheaper monk techs, well-rounded navy, and an okay siege line).

In other words gameplay balance > historical accuracy. This is also one of the reasons why the Byzantines don't get Bloodlines (since the Cataphract as a unit is pretty hard to deal with lategame and difficult to counter properly).