Talk:Samurai (Age of Empires II)/@comment-69.166.124.13-20151209053856

Only useful when facing Goth, even though samurai counter unique units, but actually useful for counter unique infantries only, but handcannoners can deal with most infantries except huskarls. In real fight, samurai dont even have chance to approach mass unique range units like chu ko nu, longbowmen, plumed archers and, most fatal one, Mangudai, which can kill samurai by hit & run without death. If you deal with mass "trash units" though, champion is strong enough. Those powerful unique units like cataphract, war elephants, mamluke still beat samurais, although samurai are cost effective, but they are castle units, creation rate is an issue, be aware that Japan doesnt have stone drilling tech. You rather use mass halb to take down cataphract and war elephants, and deal mamluke through heavy scorpion and mass of skirmishers.