Talk:Berbers/@comment-26842175-20151031184019/@comment-26842175-20151106075430

The vid by Spirit of the Law might have some mistakes. First He says that all the Paladin has all at average stats around 20% better, so the Paladin is 20% better. If I am fighting one on one, this is not true. Also a numbers vs. Power of individuals does not equal the power of the army*. Secondly he says that a FU Cavalier has 16 attack and a Paladin 18. So the Paladin has 100/9 % more attack than a Cavalier. However most units have melee armor and the real important thing is the damage you do. Lets assume your enemy has 3 armor. So a FU FU Cavalier does 13 damage and a Paladin 15, thats 40/3%. By taking averages he gets the same number, but his method is wrong. He takes an average between FU cavalarier and FU Paladin stats and unupgraded ones. It always makes sense to do the blacksmith upgradas first(A Cavalier with imperial blacksmith upgrades does 156 damage to a Paladin with castle age upgrades, before the cavalier perished, while the blacksmith are cheaper and affect more units). So actually it is fair to consider only FU unit. Secondly he does not notice that a Paladin needs only 4 hits to kill a halbedier, while the cavalier needs 5 and thus takes 25% more damage. On the armor part, I would notice that the Paladin has more armor, however the Paladin is solely better at pierce armor. Only if your enemy makes use of a lot of archers, it helps. But when it helps it helps tremendiously, since for example: Cavarly archers do 5 damage to FU cavaliers and 4 to FU paladins, a decrease of 20%, and even more for arbalest, Plumed archers.

Furthermore He only considers the gold cost for upgrading. He does not care about the fact that you could support your army with 9 licht cavalry. Secondly a Paladin has a slightly slower attack speed. Also the Paladin is converted as easy as a cavalier is.


 * Calculating army power is a really hard thing. Take for example a matchup of 2 champions vs. a Palading. The paladin gets 10 hits before killing the first one, and another 5 hits before killing the second one, so both sides die at the end of the battle(actually it has to do with first hits and attack speed). However en masse, if 40 champs attack 20 paladins, the 40 champs can't be all at the same time in strike position. So the outcome heavily depends on the situation. While a Paladin can kill 3 champs if he challenges them one by one. So what is the power of the paladin compared to the champion, and how can it be calculated?