How to beat
Byzantineas Rus
Matchup tips
You have to respect the javelin throwers; as Rus, you can't just go only archers.
Against Byzantine javelins, you're going to need men at arms as the front line.
With five cisterns and the Golden Horn Tower, it's very possible that the Byzantines can outmass Rus even with the bonus deer income.
Rus gets faster moving warrior monks, but with the Cistern boost influencing Grand Winery, you can make a monk within 15 seconds on cistern level five upon hitting castle age.
Once the camel mercenaries are in, their debuff significantly reduces the horse archers' damage potential.
Granted, there are a lot of Limitanei. Beasty would first need to reduce that number quite a bit. And that's why his men-at-arms switch is a pretty good idea, right? Because you got to pick something not on horse. You have to pick something that's not an archer. So, men-at-arms are going to be able to help you.
Well they get Limitanei with Shield Wall. Most of the damage from the Horse Archer is just base damage, so you still get a big reduction on that. The Limitanei do bonus damage to the cav archers as well, and behind that you got units like the Longbowman or potentially the Javelin Thrower, so great answer to that unit as well.
Byzantines are more like timing in this particular matchup. If the matchup becomes about Siege, we have to remember that Rus had the advantage of just High Armory discounting the mangonel, and Byzantines going Foreign Engineering Company don't have the advantage of mangonels there — it's Nest of Bees which are heavily nerfed. So I do think for Byzantine it's probably a better idea to try and end the game in Castle.
Byzantine Unique Units
Byzantine Landmarks
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