Does It Ever Make Sense to Use a Malian Arbalest?

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    The Malian civilization does not have access to the bracer upgrade, despite having access to arbs. While they do have hand cannon and good siege units for range support, it may not be the best option if trying to counter infantry. An alternative strategy could be a fast imp arb power spike, but this may be challenging due to the high cost of the arb upgrade.

    #18547
    BlizzardEz
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    As a Malian player I love double gold composition until well imperial age.

    Arb Upgrade can be worth it if you have a lotof leftover crossbows( like 30+). Eventually you want to replace them with Hand Cannons though.

    So i’ll usually go Knight/Camel + Xbow/HC.

    #18548
    Urc0mp
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    Only case I can see is if you were in a spot where castle age xbows made a lot of sense and you’ve still got a good mass of them in imp.

    #18549
    Sam_Sanister
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    Makes more sense than Celt HCA; at least Malians have Thumb Ring and Ring Archer Armor 😛

    ^(the worst part is Celt HCA can be carried to a win by their strong siege)

    #18550
    iate13coffeecups
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    Most uses for it are done just as well or better by hand cannoneers. I usually stick to those

    #18551
    halfajack
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    Since the longer lasting gold bonus got added I think they can be a good play sometimes. You often go into xbow with Malians because of the cheap uni/fast ballistics potential, and now with more gold you can play double gold compositions decently into imperial age. I think going into arb + cavalier or arb + heavy camel in early imp can make a lot of sense if you had a good xbow mass in castle age anyway.

    #18552
    Parrotparser7
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    A good “Last hurrah” for your archers before you switch to hand cannons.

    #18553
    mojotzotzo
    Guest

    Malians are good at m@a into archers so it makes sense to end up with an army of xbows that would worth upgrading to arbalest and start producing another gold unit behind them once you hit imperial.

    #18554
    Makonnen91
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    MALIAN CLAN GET IN HERE!!!!!

    #18555
    Makonnen91
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    ITT: I remember that hand cannoneers exist and how they’d perfectly help solve my late game halb problem.

    Thank you all

    #18556
    MorleyGames
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    Used to always see arbs for malians

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