Ever a reason to use the militia line of infantry?

[TerminallyGrill]

Is there ever a point to using these aside from post imperial? In castle age they're pretty much redundant thanks to knights, which do more damage, have more health and armour, and are faster than infantry.

[Woodynator]

apart from a drush and men at arms in early feudal when there arent any archers on the field, they have very limited use.

[Loggy]

Fairly sure that they have an attack bonus against eagle warriors. In any case, they work pretty well against them.

[DarK | Adélie]

Basically they are the most gold-cheap way to kill buidings, civilians and trash but will die to anything costing gold which is not a Ram, a Monk, a Camel or a Trade Cart.

Their use is extremely limited, you close-to-never see them in expert games. But there is a handful of situations where they work as an helpful support to your main army:

- With Goths sometimes
- As a counter to Huskarl + Pikemen combo
- As a counter to pure Huskarl if you play as Maya
- Against Azt/Maya EW/EEW
- On most Aztec 1v1 Arena dragging into Imp
- On DM.

Frankly in +95% of games they are useless starting from Early Feudal. M@A can't even chase a vil with Wheelbarrow.

[Derwos]

plenty of people flush with man at arms

[DarK | Adélie]

When you see m@a in serious play it's nearly all the times an upgrade after a militia rush (drush).

20-21 pop up to flush with M@A is a build that does nothing - unless you're Goth - because the unit nature: get outrunned by all Feudal units except vills without Wheel, dies quicker than loomed vills to archer fire.

[Mamba]

Also as *part of* a counter to skirm/spear.

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

Infantry have an attack bonus vs buildings/walls/gates. Plus they're great to garrison inside rams for a nasty surprise. They are produced quickly and the resource cost (60 food, 20 gold? vs 70 food, 75 gold for a knight) is pretty low. With the blacksmith upgrades they can be quite formidable.

[Kawaii bisexual vampire-chan]

Drush is popular in higher rated games, and in particular Aztec drush is pretty op in 1v1... 5 militia + eagle showing up when you haven't hit feudal yet.

But you're right that nobody uses them in feudal/castle ages unless it's a m@a upgrade after a drush; though in that scenario they're actually pretty decent if backed by ranged units. Hilariously enough most of time that you play an "infantry" civ you're going to be making xbows or knights until imperial.

[hot_gril]

Besides drush situations: They're great against both eagle warriors and spearmen. Nothing aside from cataphracts and champion-like unique units (like Berserks) are like that, so they can be useful in some situations.

[robo_boro]

They are also a good counter to trash

[Dots]

i mean like people have said they have limited use but other than drush/m@a fllush they can be usded in a fast imp sort of way where you imp at 28 mins with a basically an economy of all farmers and few woodcutters and gold miners like 50 farmers, 15 lumberjacks and 12 gold miners can spam 4 rax champions FU in 28-29 minutes which will devastate any castle age army