- fanatics are already pretty expensive
- and they have already low armor so they are kinda vulnerable to arrows
- it should be easy to have more military pop with CS because they are much cheaper and they can collect.
- when you defend and kill fanatics, you get at least some loot ;-) I guess javs can collect loot almost as fast as resources.
- ranged cavalry is faster than fanatics, so they can kite them
- if the enemy goes for fanatics he will be weaker while beginning this, so he can be attacked at that moment