How to beat
Delhi Sultanateas Chinese
Matchup tips
The Ghazi raider is a unit that sees a men at arms or a palace guard and just smiles because they know that they've won the game at that point in time. The Palace Guard used to be a very solid unit against Delhi because they were faster, could surround elephants, but Ghazi raiders just destroy them even when they're in feudal age against castle age.
Against Delhi, Chinese need stone walls to stabilize because they cannot deal with Ghazi raids otherwise.
The gunpowder upgrade for Chinese bombards gives additional attack speed, reducing reload time to 4.19 seconds, compared to ~5.38 seconds for Delhi's bombards.
Horsemen don't really do that much damage to Ghazi Raiders, and Delhi can pull weak Ghazi Raiders back to heal with Scholars.
With the Yuan dynasty movement speed bonus, Chinese spearmen can keep up with mounted units like Ghazi Raiders.
China has this habit of catching you off guard. Once their archer count goes up to 9 or 10, China will have the archery upgrade in 24 seconds, whereas Delhi will take over a minute even with scholar scaling.
Delhi can heal their Ghazi raiders with scholars. So Chinese horsemen must focus on finishing kills; they cannot just take favorable trades, because the Ghazi will heal and trade efficiently.
China's biggest edge in long feudal is massing archers, but you do not want to do that against Ghazi raiders; it's pure nightmare fuel.
Ghazi raiders deal well with lancers, especially in numbers.
Palace Guards against Ghazi raiders: it's actually kind of depressing. Ghazi do surprisingly well.
Chinese should invest into +1 range defense early against Delhi because Delhi often makes a lot of archers, and it helps your cavalry survive longer.
Delhi's House of Learning provides a technology that gives spearmen extra range, letting them attack archers from outside their range.
Delhi Sultanate Unique Units
Delhi Sultanate Landmarks
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