[Norfleet]

Light Infantry are superior late-game to Heavy infantry because of their far lesser resource cost. They cost no gems that you otherwise need for summoning serious stuff. They're completely expendable and use a resource you no longer have as much need of.

By late game, heavy infantry will be butchered en-masse just as easily as lights. Both have the same gold cost, but generally, you need a mob of men on short notice to serve as siege fodder and expendable meatshields. Gold is probably not what you are most concerned about. Heavy infantry, therefore, fail to serve the job: I need lots of crappy troops, and I need them yesterday! The production costs of HI are such that provinces cannot produce them by the dozens every turn: Since they will all likely die a gruesome death at the hands of a Bane Lord or the Ghost Riders, actual strength is irrelevant: They just need to live long enough to bash down the gates.

[ April 25, 2004, 07:23: Message edited by: Norfleet ]