Shizle, that was an awesome post. Sometimes I do check myself into the rehab barracks, but when I do, I suffer from another addiction: SKIRMISHER BINGING... I've built almost 9000. Can you recommend a program for that? Sometimes I wake up at night screaming in Dutch: "Den orloch!!!" " O K !!!! "
About uhlans being OP, yes, they are cheap and deadly en masse. Don't forget another great asset: Quick-training time compared to other cav. But they are quite easily countered by even relatively small groups of anti-cav. They tend to go down fast when there is a musket-protected RI group that keeps shooting at you as you jockey for position. I don't know about hussar>uhlan. I can always crank about about twice as many uhlans as hussars, and early game I can usually overwhelm any Frenchie or Brit who commits to an early stable. That changes as the game proceeds, but raw attack values plus numbers can knock out hussars in cav-on-cav action. It's when muskets and cav show up that I start worrying. 8O
Uhlan upgrades are pretty sweet indeed. Maybe it's overkill to have an Age 4 upgrade, but as they say in the AOE3 manual: "Germany: Free Uhlans with every shipment; Best Units: Skirmisher, Uhlan." I guess that means it's OK to have mucho upgrade cards.
