Naked Fanatics are not naked anymore

[Seleucids]

After the nerf of champion cavs, Naked Fanatics will become the next brokenly OP unit. This unit is already highly OP in non-champ-cav TGs; it deals insane damage in P2 and is hard to defend against, then in P3 it can be spammed en mass as a melee + meatshield. Most importantly, they counter the cavs to well. There are already very few infantry units which can beat it in a direct frontal 1v1, then if you factor in the cavalry-matching speed, it makes Gauls too OP. 

The cause of this situation is that the unit has double the health of a spearman and the same armour. It is also affected by all upgrades, including armour ones, which means it's not naked at all:

Suggestion: in order to live up to their name, they should have no armour at all and be unaffected by the armour upgrades. Also the cost might need to be reconsidered. 

You can't have 200 health and full melee armour and near-cav speed and no weakness against spearman. 

[Deicide4u]

15 minutes ago, Seleucids said:

Suggestion: in order to live up to their name, they should have no armour at all and be unaffected by the armour upgrades. Also the cost might need to be reconsidered. 

How would this be balanced? You'd just have an useless unit that is somewhat good against cavalry, but takes full damage from everything. 

How about you try and counter them with anything other than cavalry and CS spearmen? Why would they have weakness against spearmen, anyway? 

[real_tabasco_sauce]

5 hours ago, Seleucids said:

the cavalry-matching speed

They are quite a lot slower than cav.

[Seleucids]

8 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

They are quite a lot slower than cav.

But their turn rate and acceleration are much better. Also factor in the length of their spears.