They are supposed to be counter units to archers. It means they have to die to anything else.
This way it makes no sense if they are cavs or archers. Furthermore if they would be cavs, then greeks with prodromos would take out them in no time and in heroic they would have two different cavalary unit.
Also the slingers would die to them, not mentioning the greek counter-archer (uhh, what is the name, help me out).
This stupid turma is one of the worst unit in the game. They are "all or nothing" units and I really hate them. They make the game one-sided.
In the next expansion there will be taxmen on camels. And the siege unit will be a damn 99% pierce bird with 30 crush damage. Just to outbalance atties. And they will cost 20 gold and 1 favor and consume 1 pop. Build time: 5 seconds.
You will be able to build TCs in archaic, castles in classic.
My computer beats me in chess. But I am much better in kick-box...
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[This message has been edited by Teddy_Horse (edited 02-12-2004 @ 04:55 AM).]