Quote Originally Posted by Betito
IMO, The thing that JHI needs is more defense:

Janissary archers have a defense ability of 8, i think
Janissary muskets have a defense ability of 9
How come JHI, the melee experts of the janissaries, have a defense ability of only 5? BTW 5 armour seems ok to me.

My opinion is that they should have at least the same defense ability of muskets, or even archers.

The attack value shown in the stats is actually very misleading: those 12 attack points are worth so much more thant what it may appear.
JHI have 10 defense
JA have 13 defense
JM have 14 defense

JHI can defeat DEKs. Not easily but they can defeat them. This is possibly because of a bug in the animations of the DEK. I have defeated English armies full of DEKs, Demi Lancers and of course (sigh) mortars and trebuchets with my Turkish army consisting of 6 JHI, 6, JA, some Saracen / mercenary spears and some Quapukulu.