Lancefighter
Sergeant at Arms
So I have endeavored to create for myself an unstoppable legion of Vaegir infantry. ... Only to have come to a minor problem in my grand plan.
Vaegir infantry, or at least grey knights.. dont have shields. This makes them kinda useless in sieges.. The troop editor claims that they have the shield guarentee box checked.. but somehow, they still dont have shields.
However, vaegir linemen are almost exactly what I want - polearms, a good shield... perfect shock troopers to stand in front of my archer line. But somehow, on the path to becoming grey... they lose all of that. Grey knights cant even choose between a big axe, a polearm, and a 2h sword.. But almost never a sheld! I see perhaps one in ten carrying a shield..
Enter, the nobles. Almost all of them are exactly where they want... Except that they cant seem to decide if they want a courser or a warhorse. Wtf?! Is this some khergit group or something? I would love to use something like them for ground shock troops, but they seem to lack mobility and usefulness on the ground (they seem to have lighter armor?)
I do use them for shields during a siege, because frankly I cant have grey knights without shields trying to push a siege engine up the plain.
I have been tempted to go to nord towns and start recruiting huscarls.. Except not even those can make up their minds. Sometimes, they are using a huge axe of some sort,... come to think of it, ive really only seem them use that axe. What happened to those giant round huscarls shields?
I guess basically what this post really comes down to is this:
What troops have good shields (and preferably swords.. i prefer them over spears for some reason) that i can stick in front of archers to collect arrows?
Oh, and question 2 - is it possible to use ranks with an archer battalion? i find myself carrying around ~100 archers (i love stuff with bows >.> ) at some times, but it seems if they are too close to each other they will just stand around uselessly. i was thinking something properly midevil - a volley or 5 into the air, nearly straight up? wouldnt work with a strong bow though :\
random question 3 - why is it the first time i seiged a castle with DK's in it, I got 3 or 4 sets of dark armor... but the second time (and when i met them in the field twice) i got no armor at all?
probably just random chance, but I kinda felt like ranting
Anyhow, thanks for any help..
Vaegir infantry, or at least grey knights.. dont have shields. This makes them kinda useless in sieges.. The troop editor claims that they have the shield guarentee box checked.. but somehow, they still dont have shields.
However, vaegir linemen are almost exactly what I want - polearms, a good shield... perfect shock troopers to stand in front of my archer line. But somehow, on the path to becoming grey... they lose all of that. Grey knights cant even choose between a big axe, a polearm, and a 2h sword.. But almost never a sheld! I see perhaps one in ten carrying a shield..
Enter, the nobles. Almost all of them are exactly where they want... Except that they cant seem to decide if they want a courser or a warhorse. Wtf?! Is this some khergit group or something? I would love to use something like them for ground shock troops, but they seem to lack mobility and usefulness on the ground (they seem to have lighter armor?)
I do use them for shields during a siege, because frankly I cant have grey knights without shields trying to push a siege engine up the plain.
I have been tempted to go to nord towns and start recruiting huscarls.. Except not even those can make up their minds. Sometimes, they are using a huge axe of some sort,... come to think of it, ive really only seem them use that axe. What happened to those giant round huscarls shields?
I guess basically what this post really comes down to is this:
What troops have good shields (and preferably swords.. i prefer them over spears for some reason) that i can stick in front of archers to collect arrows?
Oh, and question 2 - is it possible to use ranks with an archer battalion? i find myself carrying around ~100 archers (i love stuff with bows >.> ) at some times, but it seems if they are too close to each other they will just stand around uselessly. i was thinking something properly midevil - a volley or 5 into the air, nearly straight up? wouldnt work with a strong bow though :\
random question 3 - why is it the first time i seiged a castle with DK's in it, I got 3 or 4 sets of dark armor... but the second time (and when i met them in the field twice) i got no armor at all?
probably just random chance, but I kinda felt like ranting
Anyhow, thanks for any help..
