civplayer33
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Late ancient as in second column, which means you actually have to rush specifically if you want to get them fairly early on, to the exclusion of other possibilities.Most games I unlock horsemen before spearmen. I have no idea what you mean by a late ancient era unit, its available very early and pursuing it early is a powerful and commonly used strategy by human players.
I'm not saying that it isn't a viable strategy to rush horsemen, rather that this strategy isn't used most of the time; I just looked at the 10 last Photojournals on this forum and not a single one of those rushed horsemen.
Whether it is better to go for horsemen before spearmen is not the issue here, the issue is whether this unit, which most agree is just fine as it is in the Classical Era, comes too early or not; again, as I have already pointed out in my other post in the other thread, just look at the photojournals...what I see there reflects my experience and I don't see people going for horsemen ASAP, but rather taking them in the second half of the ancient era (by techs researched) or even after entering Classical. So this narrative that somehow the majority of games are unbalanced in the ancient era because of too early horsemen is simply false!