Since I have used this civ in DM I have not been defeated in 10 straight outings ! They are so hard to counter. In 5 min they will hit you with 100 longswordsman rapidly becoming fully upgraded legions. They’ll keep this up until your resources are seriously depleted and you are relying on whatever you villagers are now gathering. Add to this cheap fully upgraded priests to convert your expensive troops and you truly have a psychological nightmare.
I have won several games where my opponent had a score of over 1500 and mine was 400. You can lose legions at a rate of 4 to 1 and still win, in most cases my military score sucks like 120 kills v 400 losses but I still win.
Not only can the Choson legions match it in terms of resources for HP and Attack (see table) but the micro-management with Choson is so simple. All you have to concentrate on is Legions, Towers and Priests (you can go for Cataphracts if you like to help against HA but I think it’s a waste of resource that’s another 60 Legions). You can lay down your 20-40 Barracks early and immediately pump out broadsworsdman who will become legions. 5 or 6 Temples should keep up a good supply of priests if they are Ele happy, all else you need are town centres, a couple of granaries & Markets (tower upgrades) and a storage pit for metallurgy.
Lay down lines of Towers at bottlenecks and just keep sending your legions into enemy territory.. you rarely even have to watch them ! Then concentrate on resources get those villies getting as much food gold and stone.. but I guarantee if you hit the enemy hard enough early he will run out of resources way before you.
I was a DM rookie but Choson have made me unbeatable ! (well up to now anyway)
I urge all DM rookies to give them a go you will be amazed !
The following table is a simple total resource only… plenty will argue that gold being scarcest is more important (but I am saying that most games are over before you have used up your initial batch of resources) also that armour adds to some units effectiveness but Legion armour is as relatively cheap as everything else.
CivUnitCostHPIndexAttackIndex
ChosonLegion502404.8200.40
CarthaginianCenturion1002002.0340.34
CarthaginianA Ele2107503.6180.09
PhoenecianA Ele1576003.8180.11
HittiteH Cat2603001.2610.23
MacedonianStone T130750.6510.39
EgyptianScythe1001571.6160.16
As you can see more HP per resource and more Attack per resource than any other major unit.
NB The only real defense against em are walls and Choson even get a reasonable cat to take these out !