I've played a lot of arena games recently, and barring the games when khmer do a house hop, they have never won to my memory. Why? Because everything they have is countered by halb cannon.I don't think Khmer are THAT bad. They are pretty good on Arena, and their building bonus could be used better on Arabia. Ofc they are not even close to Burmese, Indians, Incas and all the new top civs, but they should do okish vs most civs. Make their UU more viable in Castle Age and they should get more popular.If the house bonus ALSO made the house fire arrows, that would go a long way in making Khmer not absulote junk to okay.
@Tocaraca
Khmer do have the nice advance eco bonus but it really only helps in tgs as pkt.
The house bonus actually seems way better than it is. So what if you can garrison vils in houses. They are still idle there, and any enemy can just relax slowly killing the house with the vils inside doing absolutely nothing. It can be marginally useful when you have army coming to the rescue, but walls are just better and more useful in every way. The whole point of defense is to not have idle vils and not lose vils. The house bonus doenst solve the idle part, making it necessary to wall regardless.