apocalypse105
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That's because of games like Age of Empires and Empire Earth where they started that nonsense.
The older Civ games didnt have that.
You can always change it in the XML. There was a thread about axemen...
BUT Historically, Egyptian 3 man chariots were archer platforms that never actually physically engaged the enemy, Immortals were just a bunch of dumb guys in WICKER armor (but there were a lot of them!) that were EASY picking for the Bronze armed & armored Hoplites of Sparta. That's how 300 could hold off an army of 100,000. They wore metal!
For realism, make the Immortal a swordsman in wicker armor, and give Hoplites a +100% against...
Etc, Etc, Etc.
I'm talking about gameplay why give a unit a 50% bonus against something when it proparly will not engage it