Burmese Buff

Arambai are a sick unit which do not benefit from or really need most upgrades. If you're making Arambai, you get free Lumber Mill upgrades, plus don't really need to build a Blacksmith or research the techs, effectively saving a good handful of resources.

However, this "effective savings" is not enough to get a very fast Castle Age, compared to other civs with Eco bonuses. Even against a civ with no Eco bonus, your speed will only be very slightly faster. Therefore the time it takes to build a Castle means you'll be overrun by harrass before you can do it. Saracens suffer this same problem. Mongols have a similar strategy but actually excel at it due to their great Eco bonus.

Unlike Saracens, Burmese have terrible options in other respects. Their Elephants are OK but simply not as good as Khmer. Their Archers aren't a thing due to lack of armor upgrades. They don't get Paladin or Siege Onager. Their monks are good but require a Monastery (running into the problem in previous paragraph), and aside from a one-time discount on researches, don't get any special bonus. Their infantry is good in Imperial Age but not as good as a dedicated infantry civ, and the +1 to attack in Feudal for MAA hardly matters much (Malian +1 Pierce Armor is much better for what you will use a MAA for). Finally, these small bonuses are spread out among so many buildings, instead of being concentrated, you can probably take advantage of only one per game, unlike S tier civs where all their bonuses always come into play.

These are my reasons, now here is my suggested buff to Burmese:

- The first of every non-stone building that you make in a game builds 50% faster (whatever number is balanced, it's the idea).

This will enable them to get a faster Castle Age to pump out Arambai from the tech buildings and the eco bonus (something like an extra minute of gathering for 1 villager once per game from your initial Lumber Camp/Mill/Mining Camp), and makes their Monk rush actually a rush since the cost discount doesn't really increase speed. The drastic speed increase but limited to once per game is specifically designed to help with these. It also synergizes with their Lumber Camp tech bonus which will help them get the Wood fast enough to make use of it.

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