You should invest heavily in the Knight line only with civilizations that have plate barding armor, blast furnace and bloodlines to get the most out of your resources Civilizations that should invest in Paladins: So, try to have at least 20-30 Knights before getting the Cavalier upgrade (for the power spike) and at least 40-50 Cavaliers before getting the Paladin upgrade. So, these are not good either.īyzantine paladins>Celtic paladins as armor is more important for melee units.Ĭavaliers give 20% improvement to Knights (in terms of attack and HP). So, Celtic paladins actually suck late game.īyzantines lack blast furnace and bloodlines. Only a few civilizations have access to the Paladins and they are: Spanish, Byzantines, Celts, Magyars, Persians, Huns, Teutons, Lithuanians, Cumans and FranksĬelts lack plate barding armor and bloodlines.

Paladins are the most powerful land unit with a generic Paladin having 180 HP, 18 attack, 5 hack/ 7 pierce armor. Their Paladin upgrade is expensive (1300 food, 750 gold) and time consuming to research. The only units that counter them 1 on 1 are Camels, Teutonic Knights, War Elephants and monks (if guarded). Knights are generally a good raw power unit in the early-late castle age.

Age of empires 2 paladin