My new low-level guy and his merry men (and women) hired on as a merc for the Sarranids. I had a gang of 25 troops, mainly very low-level light cav (companions, manhunters and a handful of caravan guards) and decided to help out two Sarranid armies against two Rhodok armies. Map was rolling grassland, clear skies and we had 220 troops vs 260. I replayed that battle 8 or 9 times, the result was always the same. The Rhodoks completely annihilated the Sarranids while taking heavy losses. They would charge headfirst into Sarranid lines and win, march in an orderly line and win, rush toward rushing Sarranids and win. Their last reinforcement wave would chase down the remnants of the Sarranids. From my observations I would say that they won as soon as they've killed off the Sarranid cavalry, of which there was a lot. Their trump card were, not surprisingly, sharpshooters and sergeants which completely obliterated anything but the Mameluks, which they had to attrit down.
I didn't have much of a force to command but without my plucky 20 light cav I'm willing to bet they wouldn't even have needed their last reinforcement wave. I was in light armor on a Sarranid horse without a lance or shield, just a bow and only averaged about 20 kills.
I didn't have much of a force to command but without my plucky 20 light cav I'm willing to bet they wouldn't even have needed their last reinforcement wave. I was in light armor on a Sarranid horse without a lance or shield, just a bow and only averaged about 20 kills.