Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-186.139.213.173-20160418151705/@comment-127769-20160421083516

i personally don't think so because one reason : Time.

Chinese starting bonuses saves a lot of time for them  the player also must acknoledge to start the game by researching loom ( while other civs have to interrupt villager production that is not the case with chinese) the Changelog in the forgotten also improved the chinese by giving more LOS to the TC which helps to find faster the sheep ( a chinese player must first put all six villagers collecting meat from the sheeps) also  TCs gives 10 population space so you have room in the begining for 3 more villagers ( other civs just have 1 more room so that is why they must set up a villager to create their first house as soon as the game starts) which means they can wait  for their first house until they gather sufficient food for the next 3 villagers. I thinck they are currently very well balanced with the changes they get in the forgotten expansion and African kingdoms.