Thorgil
Squire
after our terrifying battle test tonight (we tried fighting different types of troops against each other) i have some facts/questions, because my feeling from previous battles was absolutely confirmed:
- british cavalry was announced to be superior. in fact even jute cavalry is way better (40 vs 40, 50% of jutes survived - and no one mentioned before!).
- Idibil will change this, but still its only light cavalry.
- british infantry is absolutely chanceless vs jute or angle infantry (brits have only medium infantry; about 30 brits vs 15 jutes: all brits dead, 10 jutes survived ).
- british archers (even if "better" than jute or angle archers, hard to measure anyway) are useless vs heavy infantry, not one infantry dies before archers get hacked.
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- why do britons have such a disadvantage in troops that they have to rely/build on "special" tactics, terrain conditions, superior number, ... luck?! and invaders can just recruit heavy infantry and overrun everything?
- why cant brits just have heavy infantry also? (Idibil, i know, i´m annoying you with this since the beginning of the campaign, but i still dont get the point). i mean the brits surely had some mean bloody muthaf..kin veteran celtic warriors in chainmail also, not just the tribes from the mainland.
- guys from anglia, mercia and juteland, i´m not complaining for no reason, make the test ... equal number of troops - and play as britons. then you know what i mean.
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solution suggestion: let brits just have uchlwyr (or any other heavy infantry) instead of cantaber iuventus!
i was really shocked tonight as we had time to test the balance of troop types...
- british cavalry was announced to be superior. in fact even jute cavalry is way better (40 vs 40, 50% of jutes survived - and no one mentioned before!).
- Idibil will change this, but still its only light cavalry.
- british infantry is absolutely chanceless vs jute or angle infantry (brits have only medium infantry; about 30 brits vs 15 jutes: all brits dead, 10 jutes survived ).
- british archers (even if "better" than jute or angle archers, hard to measure anyway) are useless vs heavy infantry, not one infantry dies before archers get hacked.
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- why do britons have such a disadvantage in troops that they have to rely/build on "special" tactics, terrain conditions, superior number, ... luck?! and invaders can just recruit heavy infantry and overrun everything?
- why cant brits just have heavy infantry also? (Idibil, i know, i´m annoying you with this since the beginning of the campaign, but i still dont get the point). i mean the brits surely had some mean bloody muthaf..kin veteran celtic warriors in chainmail also, not just the tribes from the mainland.
- guys from anglia, mercia and juteland, i´m not complaining for no reason, make the test ... equal number of troops - and play as britons. then you know what i mean.
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solution suggestion: let brits just have uchlwyr (or any other heavy infantry) instead of cantaber iuventus!
i was really shocked tonight as we had time to test the balance of troop types...