This style was however deemed unbalancable and I agree its bad design that was underpowered. Goths now are bad design in an okish powerlevel but highest tier nastiness level. Having solo infantry bonuses is just no fun and the design coming from AoK where goths as third civ were meant to be the infantry civ after the British archer civ and frankish cavalry civ just is not a good design to have fun with and playing against. 20 years of experience should have been enough.Simply removing the free Loom bonus would suffice in my opinion. The cheaper Militia is already helpful enough, considering that their early game is supposed to be weak as their late game is so strong.
No.Did the goths had the free loom at the time of the extremely cheap militia?
It was first super cheap militia starting in dark age, then nerfed to staggered cost discount, buffed with free loom. Goth went from bad -> OP -> bad -> OP in 3 months, did feel like just dicing out what to try next to FINALLY make them stop sucking.