User blog:Elijahhee/What is this $hit!? On gunpowder for Chinese and Mongols

I am ethnic Chinese myself, and I know cannons were very common in ancient Chinese warfare. Yea, it was the Chinese who invented gunpowder. It's one of the Four Great Inventions.

But I'm very surprised that in the Age of Empires II, the Chinese has only bombard tower and cannon galleon, and do not have bombard cannon! (For this context, let's forget about demolition ships, fire ships and petards which are available to nearly all civilizations) Seriously, what the fcuk is this $hit!!??

For Mongols not to have any gunpowder unit except cannon galleon is also fairly ridiculous. It was the Mongols who acquired gunpowder from the Chinese, and they utilized it in their warfare as they invaded and conquered here and there in Asia and Eastern Europe. It was the Mongol conquest that introduced gunpowder into Europe, apart from the Greek fire which is said to be used by the Greeks since the BC.

I wonder whether the game designers (or whoever) were history-illiterates, nincompoops, or purposely trying to put down the Asians.

At least the bombard cannon should be available to the Chinese, and hand cannoneer to the Mongols. And actually I doubt whether the Chinese and Mongols really need to have a strong navy, since each of them seldom fought on the sea in history. If they have both bombard cannons and hand cannoneer but no cannon galleon, at least this would sounds more reasonable.

But now many years have passed. It's not appropriate to remove cannon galleon from them, or it's going to fcuk up many people's gameplay. I only hope for a new patch that does inclusion for units as mentioned in the previous paragraph, while some other bonuses may be slightly reduced for the sake of balancing. Maybe the Chinese villager bonus can be cut from 6 to 5?