How to beat
Byzantineas Zhu Xi's Legacy
Matchup tips
Additional range from the Temple of the Sun on Nest of Bees can outrange longbows, negating their range advantage.
Zhu Xi has no access to regular archers, which is what you want against longbows. Zhuge Nu are not effective against them, so they can't fight Byzantine longbows in feudal age.
Enough Cataphracts should beat the lancers even with the Dali Horses attack speed upgrade, as long as they are backed up by longbows.
Byzantine Royal Cannons are superior to Zhu Xi's bombards: three can one-shot a Nest of Bees, and they have more range.
Limitanei are exactly what Zhuge Nu will do very well against.
You're getting five longbows every minute and a half for free. And the cool thing about that is longbows are a premium archer with higher base damage anyway. They keep relevance in castle so much better than standard archer play. You know what doesn't keep value in castle? Zhuge Nu - I feel like every time I see a player stuck with Zhuge Nu in castle, they hate it.
The bonus percentage armor against range damage works perfectly against the Zhuge Nu, meaning they're going to be able to tank up so much more damage against them.
There is this very aggressive timing from Zhu Xi just being able to pump out tons of knights. The Limitanei do work very well against it, especially once you upgrade the Painted Shield. Suddenly your Limitanei go from 1.25 to 1.44 tiles per second movement speed. They're going to be able to react to all of those raids from the knights coming in.
In theory, the Byzantine player could just go for the Keshik wing and get Ghulams, and could absolutely destroy an army composition of horsemen, spearmen, and Zhuge Nu with just Ghulams.
The Camel Archers' camel support aura provides plus two armor against Zhuge Nu. It's going to be an absolute nightmare for the Zhuge Nu to fight even against unarmored units.
Byzantine Unique Units
Byzantine Landmarks
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