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Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: CN2 on July 25, 2008, 02:25:11 PM

Im going to go for Missile cav because I love Horse archers,give me an army of them and I can really unleash hell :D                                                      

How about you?

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: comrade_general on July 25, 2008, 04:25:10 PM

Skirlishers?  :lol:

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: stormcloud on July 25, 2008, 04:50:56 PM

Gonna have to say heavy/light cavalry

followed by heavy infantry for sieges

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Private Clark on July 25, 2008, 05:55:04 PM

Fixed the skirlishers error  :D

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: CN2 on July 25, 2008, 06:19:31 PM

Quote

Fixed the skirlishers error

Hehe thanks,by the time I saw it it was too late.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Private Clark on July 26, 2008, 03:10:20 AM

No problem, i think im going to go with heavy inf ;)

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: LegioCaesar on July 29, 2008, 09:48:18 PM

Heavy inf kills cav and their armor blocks many incoming HA arrows. :P

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Son of the King on July 30, 2008, 05:48:31 PM

Normally I would have said Heavy Infantry or Archers. But I put Hoplites. In my campaign as Macedon, my pike phalanxes have destroyed anything they have been faced with, and my militia hoplites have killed even Spartans when defending city gates. Even the Egyptian chariots haven't put up a fight.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Andalus on August 08, 2008, 07:58:57 PM

I'm going for missile cavalry, specifically horse archers. There is no joy that transcends winning multitudes of heroic victories with not a cratch on your good self.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: SubRosa on August 24, 2008, 09:55:05 AM

I have to go with the missile cavalry here too. Whether it is plain old Militia Cavalry, entry level Horse Archers, or the top of the heap - Heavy Horse Archers, these guys and girls are awesome monster-bashers. It is so much fun to take on armies 4-5 times the size of your own and utterly destroy them with these units.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Private Clark on August 24, 2008, 06:46:53 PM

You have to know how to use them though. Otherwise they could be a hindrance.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Andalus on August 24, 2008, 08:54:17 PM

I think it is fair to assume that SubRosa does...

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: stormcloud on August 24, 2008, 09:51:40 PM

I find using a missile cavalry heavy force to be like using a chisel to tunnel through a mountain, slow fine work that can go wrong very suddenly.

I guess you cant go for a full on best, using a force of one kind of unit has allot of weaknesses, I think a good army is:

20% heavy cavalry
10% missile cavalry
10% light cavalry
15% heavy infantry
10% light infantry
10% spearmen
15% missile infantry
10% siege equipment/specialist

but it is all depending on the job at hand

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: comrade_general on August 25, 2008, 01:45:52 AM

My dream army is:

25% Heavy Cavalry
25% Missile Infantry (preferably archers)
50% Heavy Infantry/Hoplites

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Private Clark on August 26, 2008, 05:52:05 PM

I like that army but id want some light infantry and shock troops ready to flank while my Heavy spearmen hold the line.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: comrade_general on August 26, 2008, 07:41:45 PM

Quote from: "Private Clark"

I like that army but id want some light infantry and shock troops ready to flank while my Heavy spearmen hold the line.

thats what the cavalry is for  ;)

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: Private Clark on August 26, 2008, 07:47:23 PM

Id still like a unit of Berserkers or somethingin there.

Title: Whats the best unit type?
Post by: comrade_general on August 26, 2008, 07:54:33 PM

Quote from: "Private Clark"

Id still like a unit of Berserkers or somethingin there.

yeah you got a point, i probably wouldnt choose berserkers though