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A couple of screenshots.. I'll upload some more at some point, perhaps.
You might have noticed the presence of high-tier Sarranid Cavalry and Cav. Archers. Most of these were troops I took prisoner during the Rhodok Republic's recent Crusade against the infidel Sarranids and their slippery Sultan and then converted to the dark side of the force. In fact, quite a few came from Hakim's army, which had reached a monstrous size of 575 troops. Naturally, democracy and the people were on the side of my, err, rich knights, who took only 30 casualties (9 deaths)!
The Hasham (C7) and Iqta'dar (H7) troops are great additions to this army-build, by the way, if you can capture them, although they do lower the % of enemy troops knocked unconscious; for some reason, the Hasham is excellent at slashing at enemies during the charge, perhaps because of the Weapon Reach of his scimitar (113). The Iqta'dar, though, are actually preferable to Black Widows, but far less common or easy to obtain.
Any improvement?
I'd actually meant a predominantly Cavalry-based army, with a lower % of Cav. Archers; would an Infantry-only army be able to cope with the mobility and conflicting styles of the two branches of the opposing army? If the Infantry focused on trying to kill the Cav. Archers, they would be left open to attack from the main Cavalry force but, likewise, if they focused on the Cavalry, they would be peppered from arrows from behind and all sides.
I hope you manage to get it working to report back on how it goes!
Sounds like my sort of Cavalry charge.
You might have noticed the presence of high-tier Sarranid Cavalry and Cav. Archers. Most of these were troops I took prisoner during the Rhodok Republic's recent Crusade against the infidel Sarranids and their slippery Sultan and then converted to the dark side of the force. In fact, quite a few came from Hakim's army, which had reached a monstrous size of 575 troops. Naturally, democracy and the people were on the side of my, err, rich knights, who took only 30 casualties (9 deaths)!
The Hasham (C7) and Iqta'dar (H7) troops are great additions to this army-build, by the way, if you can capture them, although they do lower the % of enemy troops knocked unconscious; for some reason, the Hasham is excellent at slashing at enemies during the charge, perhaps because of the Weapon Reach of his scimitar (113). The Iqta'dar, though, are actually preferable to Black Widows, but far less common or easy to obtain.
Hanakoganei said:I've tried editing a few of the lower tier troops to have no horse. I'm testing it all out right now.
Any improvement?
Hanakoganei said:Good point. I'm hoping to run into that situation though, because so far like I mentioned, the Khergits are acting like bandits. No real strategy and we're easily able to repel them. But if they were largely skirmishing horse archers (like I want the Khergits to be), for example, I imagine it would be quite an interesting battle to try to figure a tactic out for. Which was the reason I wanted to pit them against my versatile infantry units.
I'd actually meant a predominantly Cavalry-based army, with a lower % of Cav. Archers; would an Infantry-only army be able to cope with the mobility and conflicting styles of the two branches of the opposing army? If the Infantry focused on trying to kill the Cav. Archers, they would be left open to attack from the main Cavalry force but, likewise, if they focused on the Cavalry, they would be peppered from arrows from behind and all sides.
I hope you manage to get it working to report back on how it goes!
Hanakoganei said:Hence, they often did frontal charges instead of flanking, because of the psychological aspect.
Sounds like my sort of Cavalry charge.