Wonder why expert players never make Long Swordsmen in Castle Age in their Ara 1v1's or TG's?
BECAUSE THEY SUCK SUCK SUCK BIG BALLS. Explanations.
First, they are not pop-effective against groups of Crossbows, Cavalry Archers or Knights. And basically in Castle, everything that can't somewhat beat knights sucks.
Wait what, I'm talking ****? You want to talk about cost-effectiveness? Fine.
As LS cost 80 ressources (60F, 20G) and Knights 155 ressources (60F, 75G), 31 LS should beat 16 Knights. It's math.
Sure it is much more complicated to amass 1860 food and 620 gold than 960 food and 1200 gold, not even counting the extra houses that 31 LS need over 16 kts, but let's pretend.
Starting with 31 Celt Castle Fully upgraded Long Swordsmen, they're not bad they got 5% extra speed compared to others, face them against 16 Goth FU Knights (nothing special, have all their Castle upgrades)
*tested AI vs AI with Barbarian v 2.13 AI, the greatest AI ever*
(USE RIGHT-CLICK TO OPEN IMAGE ENTIRELY)
LOOK AT US WE SO POWERFUL LOL
NO U SUCK ASS 6 KNIGHTS REMAINING
Ok well Philippe is stupid, why does he tests it with bad LS? Go with Japanese LS, they're the best in Castle Age with their 25% (actually 33%) faster attack
(Japanese LS)
4 KNIGHTS REMAINING LOL ALL THESE FARMS AND HOUSES FOR NOTHING LS SUCK SUCK SUCK FART
You're totally ******ed, since when standard infantry are offensive units? They are meant to counter trash and eagles, EVERYONE SMART KNOWS IT PHILIPPE QUIT AOCZONE NOW
I'd rather use trash to counter trash (light cav counter skirm, skirm counter pikes, pikes counter light cav) rather than spend tons of food and gold in upgrades for units that are countered badly by Xbows and Knights when trash can do the work. Seriously what is the purpose of spending gold in a unit that get taken by any other gold unit (except eagles but on Ara who goes eagles in Castle?)
Even trash is effective at killing one type of these, Skirms kill Xbows and cost no gold, Pikes kill Knights and cost no gold, Light Cav is better at harassing villagers than slow-ass LS and cost no gold at all
Most useless unit ever, even if upgrade is free no one will spend 20 gold on these 55 HP **** (even Goth always do Knight pocket or very rarely Huskarl pocket, never LS pocket). Only use is to laugh seeing a ass-unit on the Castle Age battlefield, or to humiliate noobs like me.
YEAH PHILIPPE BUT I LAID YOUR MOTHER
Me too don't care
LOOK AT ME, LOOK HOW I SUCK, LOOK HOW I'M RICH WITH ALL THIS FOOD AND GOLD YOU GIVEN ME ONLY TO BUY MYSELF LUBE
BECAUSE THEY SUCK SUCK SUCK BIG BALLS. Explanations.
First, they are not pop-effective against groups of Crossbows, Cavalry Archers or Knights. And basically in Castle, everything that can't somewhat beat knights sucks.
Wait what, I'm talking ****? You want to talk about cost-effectiveness? Fine.
As LS cost 80 ressources (60F, 20G) and Knights 155 ressources (60F, 75G), 31 LS should beat 16 Knights. It's math.
Sure it is much more complicated to amass 1860 food and 620 gold than 960 food and 1200 gold, not even counting the extra houses that 31 LS need over 16 kts, but let's pretend.
Starting with 31 Celt Castle Fully upgraded Long Swordsmen, they're not bad they got 5% extra speed compared to others, face them against 16 Goth FU Knights (nothing special, have all their Castle upgrades)
*tested AI vs AI with Barbarian v 2.13 AI, the greatest AI ever*
(USE RIGHT-CLICK TO OPEN IMAGE ENTIRELY)
LOOK AT US WE SO POWERFUL LOL
NO U SUCK ASS 6 KNIGHTS REMAINING
Ok well Philippe is stupid, why does he tests it with bad LS? Go with Japanese LS, they're the best in Castle Age with their 25% (actually 33%) faster attack
4 KNIGHTS REMAINING LOL ALL THESE FARMS AND HOUSES FOR NOTHING LS SUCK SUCK SUCK FART
You're totally ******ed, since when standard infantry are offensive units? They are meant to counter trash and eagles, EVERYONE SMART KNOWS IT PHILIPPE QUIT AOCZONE NOW
I'd rather use trash to counter trash (light cav counter skirm, skirm counter pikes, pikes counter light cav) rather than spend tons of food and gold in upgrades for units that are countered badly by Xbows and Knights when trash can do the work. Seriously what is the purpose of spending gold in a unit that get taken by any other gold unit (except eagles but on Ara who goes eagles in Castle?)
Even trash is effective at killing one type of these, Skirms kill Xbows and cost no gold, Pikes kill Knights and cost no gold, Light Cav is better at harassing villagers than slow-ass LS and cost no gold at all
Most useless unit ever, even if upgrade is free no one will spend 20 gold on these 55 HP **** (even Goth always do Knight pocket or very rarely Huskarl pocket, never LS pocket). Only use is to laugh seeing a ass-unit on the Castle Age battlefield, or to humiliate noobs like me.
YEAH PHILIPPE BUT I LAID YOUR MOTHER
Me too don't care
LOOK AT ME, LOOK HOW I SUCK, LOOK HOW I'M RICH WITH ALL THIS FOOD AND GOLD YOU GIVEN ME ONLY TO BUY MYSELF LUBE