Teutons do not need free herbal medicine. Really no civ needs it. It’s still useless. Teutons are a slow civ with a slow UU. They should get no gold siege towers (or at least greatly discounted). This would help them be able to make their infantry push more viable.
Side note.
Like many people have said, siege towers are only used in troll situations in post imp with excess resources. They are already too expensive to be viable. If AOE wants infantry to be viable especially in castle and early imp they need to address this unit. It’s the best way to get past archers or towers to take out your opponents base or to stand a chance against archers.
Herbal medicine is not useless, it is very good actually What if you get raided and your vils are low on health? They regain that why’ll in TC or whatever. I’ve learnt to start appreciating healing my units now instead of just throwing them away and sending an army of half health soldiers into battle. And your title is misleading, as you mentioned nothing about the Teuton team bonus (currently ‘units resist conversion’).
I’ve seen teuton players using their unique units inside rams, for both the extra speed and piercing armor. Due to the special tech, you end up with a fairly strong ram push.
Using cheap siege towers instead of rams could become popular. Maybe also apply the “infantry shoots arrows when inside buildings” to the siege towers, too?
Now that’s would be a game changer.
Most of the time people heal with monks so they can pressure the enemy at the same time or at least defend neutral territory. Also your villagers aren’t working if you’re just garrisoning them. You could heal them and have them work at the same time with a monk. Some units can’t even go in towers to heal.
I didn’t mean to say team bonus but just bonus.
They originally did shoot arrows but realized it was way too strong. It has like 200 pierce armor and is pretty fast.
They are essentially a taxi. I don’t see them being the meta but it would be a viable strategy to attack your opponent with infantry.
I played teutons in around 10 games and already had the bonus save me big time.
I was pushing with castles while my mate had xbow/arbs later. It was Oasis so my 8 forward vills had to walk forever (i was pkt). While building the 2nd castle the vills took a big hit from a mangonel, reducing their health to 1-5hp, i hopped back in my last castle, waited 10secs and went back to building. Building the castle only 3 vills survived with all Teuton bonus won the game
I do like this idea to make the siege tower more viable. Honestly it should just not cost gold, or very little gold. It would be awesome to start seeing siege towers in every game considering how important they were to actual siege warfare in middle ages.
