How good are Fire Lancers? (new AoE2 unit!)

Vietnam civ overview ?

It's a useless unit with high cost overall.
Almost all units can counter it except cavalry line.
And spear men can do better job with its lower cost.

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Not a big fan of this unit. Seems like another move in the "generalist" direction. Something I've always liked about AoE over other RTS games (Starcraft, Warcraft) is the focus on hard-counters but a lot of the more recently added units seem to be moving away from this

In my recent experience Fire Lancers actually did pretty well against massed Huskarls too. Though the gold cost is crippling to keep producing them.

There is a mistake in calculations Halbs vs Paladins. There was 18 of them and 6 are left. So there should be below 33% hp left and not 57% as its showed.

I thought Knights Counter Pikes 11111

Its a shame we couldnt see the difference in performance of all those civs vs common units.

I'm not the biggest fan of adding ever more new units to the game, but I do like the point being made that this could indirectly push more players into the swordsman-line. Getting the swordsman-line to be part of the multiplayer meta has been surprisingly difficult.

So.. it is useless.

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Don't like em ...

What I take from the video is that Fire Lancers are just a straight up better version of militia line in its role (trash counter), with very high anti-cavalry bonus, better archers resistance, and on top of that a ranged attack to massively help against their only real counter, that is the militia line, and to help kill monks and villagers?
They do cost a bit of extra gold, but they cost wood instead of food.
I dunno, they do seem a bit much. Like every new unit they feel just superior to other things already in the game. Also the fact that these new civs have how many new regional units? Old civs have 0: having more options is a big bonus on its own.

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I actually like how the fire lancer is kind of meh in castle age, but gets a lot better in imp from a thematic POV. Kind of like the technology is still new to them, but once they hit imperial, they've figured it out.

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As a Persian Player, mass Trashbows + a good meat shield absolutely wreck Firelancer

Finally east Asian unit with east Asian looks to faithfully reenact the mongol invasion of China with fire lancers being a thing!

I prefer the Chinese the most and Koreans getting this unit that packs more bunch than their weak halbs was good addition.

Played chinese vs persians, went big on firelancers. Turns out... Persians have hand cannons 😅 rarely have i won a game by spamming light cavalry

They're adding Jurcheons! Finally we can play through the Jin-Song wars.

So essentially the Elite Fire Lancer is another buff to the Swordsman-Line, being extremly good against most other things but getting hardcountered by them?

I feel like this is just a better version of a camel rider, that kills spear man as well as knights, I play teutons, and use knights and skirmishes a lot, when some uses camels I can mix in pikes, and that works well, but will be useless vs fire lancers, also long swordsman are still bad in castle age. I feel like the newer civilizations are just getting better versions of older unites, Persian paladins, dromaens, the new other better cannon gallon, rocket carts also seem to be a better cheaper onager. I feel like older civilizations are just getting left in the dust.

Great now do a regional unit for other civs to be fair.

the Britannia civs should have like highlanders or something

If someone's doing strafing/raiding runs with knights and are dodging your pikemen, they're useless. A 4 range firelancer shot can really scare them off, but is quite expensive to boot.

Fire lancers, the original musket + bayonet lol

This is a good unit for the back of the army as a fail safe if the battle goes south

Fire lancers came before Greek fire land units for byzantine bois? Sad

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so persians might still have something to hold on to, since their longswordmen will have wood costing crossbows to support (like trash units), if that's still a thing

Maybe make video comparison of which unite is an ultimate trash unites killer, comparin Champions, Fire Lancers and some unike unites like Berserker, Teutonik Knight, Laitis, Catahprakt etc.

The fire lancer feels so nice alongside archers. You can focus on the same resource balance, and the fire lancers can move in against skirms or protect your archers from cav, while archer/pike can be easily countered by skirms

I think these fit right in and provide a cool flavor in the game.

Trash unit that cost gold, pretty much dead on arrival.

Vietnamese fire lancer seems to be very well designed for the civ. They already dominate archer fight against every other civs with high hp archery units and rattan, so a fire lancer with high hp is great for tanking melee so the archers can do the work. Yes, Vietnamese fire lancers are the tankiest in melee fight.

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The ship looked so cute sitting on the grass.

I think the key strength of this unit is forcing cav civs to go into infantry for a hard counter, which is something most cav civs do not want to do if they can avoid it. I think their gold cost might cause problems though.

Seems aoe2 have much trouble with path finding when fighting

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This game is becoming too complicated to continue

Rather than pikes, isn't it more appropriate to compare fire lancers to the Champion line given both are gold units?

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