khergits...how in god's name do i take their **** castles?
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RiceyGringo
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They fall like wheat to my scythe! Wait until you try to siege a castle with 200 swadian sharpshooters in it...They are like brick walls
ryanpo
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i did try huscarls...about 90 of them, and they all died. the problem was that they were taking a ridiculous amount of arrows from three directions cause of the surrounding walls filled with archers as they climbed the ladder of doom. and when i attacked with 70 rhodok sharpshooters, they died really quick too, mainly because of the time it takes to reload, etc.
so your saying just bumrush with powerful infantry and hope for the best?
and yeah, ive eradicated the rhodoks and taken their towns, the sharpshooters werent hard to beat because for some reason not many of them were on the ramparts
so your saying just bumrush with powerful infantry and hope for the best?
and yeah, ive eradicated the rhodoks and taken their towns, the sharpshooters werent hard to beat because for some reason not many of them were on the ramparts
AA0
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I've never seen Khergits been able to drop much with their archery, but if that is really the problem then adapt. Station yourself at the bottom of the castle and clear one side of archers, your troops will turn to the fewer remaining attackers and most likely will block the shots and get by.
Suspect-Device
Khergits can be annoying if your playing on the hardest difficulty, basically you have to fight a war of attrition, let your archers nip away at their defenders, retreat when out of arrows, then repeat until you can storm the ramparts in relative ease, or you could always just turn the battle size down to the lowest possible setting, but that may be construed as cheating.
Mabons
jldmon said:
You fail at spelling and grammar
He is a new guy so we all treat him repsectfully and welcome him. We don't call him a "fail" or a "noob"
Anyways, Huscarls are you're best bet, and I think you may have been exaggerating when you lost 90 to a garrison. They have huge shields, and the khergits are no match for them close combat. If it's a siege tower then I can see why it's a problem, but using a ladder shouldn't be a problem.
Best way I've found is a mix of Vaegir Marksmen, Rhodok Sharpshooters and Huscarls. When you spawn, tell your men to hold position and spread out. Then get your infantry out of range of the Khergit arrows (F7 a couple of times. If there's no room, you can lead them round the side of the castle or under the ladder where the defenders won't be able to hit them with arrows). Let your archers do their work. When they start to run out of arrows, you can either send your infantry in or retreat and repeat the first few steps if the castle has a big garrison.
Suspect-Device
I find a good tactic is to take out the archers who can shoot directly onto the ramp from the sides with a ranged weapon, then rush up yourself and take out as many of the men on the walls as you can, then tell your men to charge before you get knocked out.
amondrubee
Veteran
If you want something done right do it yourself. 
Hide your soldiers behind the castle walls or make them hold position far out of arrow/bolt reach.
Then run around so enemy fires everything they've got at you. Keep doing this until they run out of ammo. (this only works if your athletics is 10)
Now it's time to use your long range soldiers to fire at the enemy to reduce their numbers.
When your troops run out of ammo, make the infantry charge and follow, and once they break in then order the archers to charge.
Hide your soldiers behind the castle walls or make them hold position far out of arrow/bolt reach.
Then run around so enemy fires everything they've got at you. Keep doing this until they run out of ammo. (this only works if your athletics is 10)
Now it's time to use your long range soldiers to fire at the enemy to reduce their numbers.
When your troops run out of ammo, make the infantry charge and follow, and once they break in then order the archers to charge.
Childe_Rolande said:Hmm. I remember the first time I tried to siege a khergit-held castle. Much fun, and also a pain if it's your first time. Perhaps I shouldn't have felt pleased as well as horrified to see so many arrows hurdling down toward my infantry.
So I spread my rhodock infantry line thin and kept them far from the walls, and waited. I waited for about fifteen minutes before I decided they must have invisible mules floating over the walls and supplying the archers and skirmishers with an infinite supply of shot.I had about twenty rhodock sergeants on me at the time though, and I'm not sure why there's a popular opinion going around that the rhodocks aren't worth their weight in custard, because those sergeants took care of them pretty quickly.
I miss those sergeants, I lost most of them in the east, before Swadia declared war on us.
I've noticed that they tend to run out of ammo pretty quickly!
