Ottomans is good because it has a lot of superior shooting, the useful troops are fast (4MUs and above), and a lot of it can escape by skirmishing or using drilled "strictly come dancing" when things get awkward. That's a powerful combination.azrael86 wrote: It also has to be relevant that of the few armies allowed a lot of superior foot bow, two are very common, Christian Nubian and Ottomann Turk. This suggests to me that the cost of a superior shooter is too low, particularly for foot (most superior mounted are already expensive, although charging extra for being superior but less for being armoured might be a balance here).
Christian Nubian had the combination of massed superior bow and having a lot of BGs. In a competition (ie the rankings), if you are lucky you can have brought the right match-up to hit the bow (no chance catching the skirmishers
), but breaking the army is another proposition.I agree superior bow are probably 1AP too cheap (Dominate MF superior bow are viciously powerful), but only for superior bow, not other superiors. And making armour cheaper is absolutely the wrong way to go. It's bad enough at the moment.
