Also defending with skirms is gonna be way easier with that.
It’s also pretty nice strategy-wise beacuse it allows for quite a variety of options like you can chose between making blacksmith after first range and keep upgrade advantage or go second range and have better numbers with defensive upgrade so you can push opponent back to his tc. Getting armor ealry on in feudal age is rather difficult so Koreans will have a time window where they basically win vs every other archers. How is that bonus small? I think it’s pretty huge.