Why should and ATC unit lose against mass produced TC units? Right now they are more expensive than a human Knight, we don't even know if sharper blades or improved caragous armor do anything (I don't think they do), and you can train 50 militia for the time it takes to train one caragous. Oh and on TCs not ATCs.
They are a useless unit in a race that has been handicapped by the market, MPs and magic being a completely useless segment of the game due to the MPs and other reasons.
Elves racial tech is also completely useless. Shadowhall is a laugh, 12 hours for a coin toss on someone not losing any troops but you also have half mage efficiency for 26 hours. Ice storm is a joke, especially with MPs out, because it's cancelled our by growing crop, which every race has access to off the hop. And it lasts 5 hours and you have half power mages for 22 hours. It is literally the only racial tech that has a downside. The only tech, in fact.
Archers and EA don't have any scalable defence, so after humans get a couple armor techs their range is better.
Mages are strong, until mid round. They don't scale at all. Then they are expensive mid tier units
Legion undead, FF gnome and SL dwarf wreck range elf. Why shouldn't elf caragous be able to counter them? To be at max power they won't have any other units.
If I wasn't morally against changing races I would, but as it stands I will play out this round and the worst race in the game, and go something else next round.
