Imperial Army

The Imperial Army is a Banner Army trainable by the Chinese that contains Iron Flails and Arquebusiers. Iron Flails are a good all around Heavy Cavalry unit that do decent damage, have fairly high hitpoints, and do area damage. They are weak against Heavy Infantry and Light Cavalry. Arquebusiers are powerful against Heavy Infantry and Light Cavalry, making the double pronged combination powerful, although vulnerable to armies with a lot of Heavy Cavalry. The Imperial Banner army is useful if your opponent is building a lot of light infantry, cannons, Heavy Infantry, or Light cavalry. If using only this army and facing lots of Heavy Cavalry, the Arqubusiers are not well protected, so it is worthwhile to ship Musks from the British Consulate if using only this army.