Why oxcarts are not trained units?

[Tathar]

It made more sense and was better balanced for them to be trained.

[jonoliveira12]

They used the way Mule Carts work in AoE2DE as a basis.

It is better this way, as now teh Ox Carts do not stop Villager production when you make them, and can be made next to resource, instead of slowly moved to it.

[jonoliveira12]

Also with Vills now building Houses and Farms (they always could make Farms but not Houses), getting another option in their build list is more elegant.

[Rhacius]

Originally posted by Tathar:

It made more sense and was better balanced for them to be trained.

funny enough I think the change is good FOR balance reasons. Used to be sniping an oxcart was devastating for the norse player since they have to dedicate TC time to building a new one. The need to not build an oxcart was so bad that as a Thor player I would commenly drop my dwarven gold mine in the first age next to the town center so I would have my starting ox cart available from the get go, it never felt great.

[Armilus]

I was so used to building oxcarts at the town center, it took a moment for me to figure out how I could get more oxcarts. For a minute, I thought I was stuck with just one oxcart because of a bug.
That's my only issue with the new system.