Talk:Shotel Warrior/@comment-24.239.107.16-20160104163554

They may not be cheap but considering their uses they are a pretty good unit. They take down buildings extremely fast, and although a wall will often prevent that, if you give them any chance to get into your base they will wreck TC's and other important buildings extremely quickly with Arson. Think about that as most seige units are very, VERY slow and take a while to build. These units are fast and can be produced fast, so while they may not make up your primary army, when, for example you break open a wall, you can pump these suckers out very quickly and take down a TC or some other buildings extremely fast, and since they can run fast as well, that adds more hardiness to them than slower seige as well, who can't retreat and play hit and run. Like many unique units they aren't exactly intended to be the unit you mass up as your sole, primary army. Their expense and castle requirement often discourage that (and with other civs there is often a long build time for UU's). But I see Shotel warriors to be a one-dimensional unit but EXTREMELY good at that one dimension. Even when they aren't being a seige force, if you encounter a unit that the Shotel counters, you can bring them out really fast in response. Normally it takes a long time to respond to what an enemy is making, and often when a Shotel warrior counters something it is a really strong counter in that they completely demolish them.