[Anonymous Player]

Plate armor is an upgrade for infantry that provides increased protection of +1/+1 armor.

It requires an investment of 100 food and 50 gold, and takes 40 seconds to research from the barracks.

[BrokenTorpedo]

the plate armor at home :
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Plate_Mail_Armor

[Futuralis]

> Which gives infantry line +1/+1 armor

By which you mean militia line, right?

It’d be fine, some civs’ champions would become unusually strong but it would help other civs tech into infantry.

The real reason we don’t see much infantry is because they don’t fill a required role, though.

You don’t really push with them in Castle Age and they lack the mobility to do anything else.

I’m not sure extra armor would change much.

[Insulated_Lunchbox]

I like it a lot.

I was thinking about a buff to infantry giving them more armor automatically.

But an upgrade sounds potentially better in terms of balance.

Right now, even Malian infantry can’t reliably dive castles and archers, so I don’t think there is a risk of it being OP.

[peeking_duck4]

been suggested, would need to be careful who gets it (no malians), could still be problematic.

but would love to at least see it tried in the PUP

biggest issue atm is actually the food tech fees on MAA line (LS, supplies, squires, arson etc) compared to knights that can still be used with literally zero tech

as well as the food cost on LS.

knights and xbows use significantly less food, so its much easier to maintain production to reach an effective mass soon enough

[CallMeBernin]

Malians licking their chops

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