Why do the Persians have two Champion Cavalry Archers?

[Vantha]

The Persians have two champion cavalry archers:the Babylonian Scythed Chariot and the Bactrian Heavy Cavalry Archer.
As far as I can tell from the structure tree, they have the exact same stats. Why do the Persians have (from a gameplay perspective) the same unit twice? Is there a reason for that or am I missing something obvious?

[Philip the Swaggerless]

Previously they only had the chariots. I believe the team is working on making the chariot have extra features. Some of the ideas were making the scythes coming out of the wheels do damage and/or making it so the soldier on top can jump off of it. 

[Gurken Khan]

AFAIK the chariots have a bigger hit box, so for now I go for the archers.

[Vantha]

Right now the upgrade that unlocks the chariots is kind of pointless, because the other upgrade costs the same and unlocks the champion cavalry archers with a smaller hitbox and another champion melee cavalry.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, Vantha said:

Right now the upgrade that unlocks the chariots is kind of pointless, because the other upgrade costs the same and unlocks the champion cavalry archers with a smaller hitbox and another champion melee cavalry.

There are vague plans and desires to differentiate chariots from normal cav, but it is all up in the air.

[Lion.Kanzen]

On 07/08/2023 at 10:21 AM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

There are vague plans and desires to differentiate chariots from normal cav, but it is all up in the air.

It's simple, chariots should have a melee mode and trample damage, something like an alternate version of the cataphract.

Cataphracts should have trample damage as well.

 

This way they can be Anti-infantry units.

The chariots will be like the cataphract but with more area damage.

Heavy cavalry.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Latest version of the game includes differentiation for cataphracts and chariots, but I agree it does not go far enough. We need trample component and secondary attacks.