2day's featured unit-Jannisary Heavys

[Michael the Great]

Ok,man,I'm telling you these guys rule da batlefield.
I use them in my best armyes,and they are superb against heavily armoured units.
They are fast,so that means they can flank much better.
Oh and they can beat any type of cavalry in the game(especially heavy cavalry) thanks to that weapon.
It seems that their unit icon doesn't look to much like their real appearance,firstly they have a smaller shield than in the icon,and also their weapons are smaller(some sort of poleaxes but with a smaller handle).
It's odd that they are 'heavy' while waring such little armor;do their shields give them the defence bonus,or ar they like the Varagian Guards' shields??
How do u use these turkish elite units??

[Exile]

The other day I was running some custom battles with the tougher infantry units against each other to see which is the strongest. The Swiss Armoured Pikemen beat anything, the Gothic Knights were next and then the Janissary Heavy Infantry. Still pretty impressive as that was a battle of the big boys http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I would have liked to try them against Varangian Guards but couldn't becuase VG arent available in the late era and JHI are only available in the late era.

According to the unit stats, JHI do not use their shield in melee. I have not been able to use them in a campaign yet, my Turkish campaign was in the early era and never made it to the late era.

[andrewt]

JHI are available in high and late so you could match them up with Varangian Guard. Their cost and speed means that you are better off using them as flankers as their defense is just the same as CMAA and their armor is a tad weaker. Varangian have much better defense.

[Acronym]

I don't use jan heavy inf as flankers, rather as a main punch. They work well with a wall of 4 or more spearmen, using the spearmen to block the enemy army while the jans concentrate on one spot, also using cav to help them. this worked very well online. Did this playing 2v2, when my ally attacked one of them, his army routed after doing damage then my jans went in and finished that army then mowed down the other.

[Postino]

i use them for the punch factor...with my tactics i usually need a strong high morale unit to shove in and stand while i manouver...manuever...manuer(SP&#33http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif their biggest weakness to me is their high cost. takes 20k to feild a good turk army in MP for me.

[Alrowan]

well me and annie had a big chat about the dreaded JHI and the turks the other nite. We came up with some pretty cool ideas and such, and just discussed a lot of tactics.

what ive found, in MP if you use JHI with 1 valour and 1 armour upgrade, its relativly cheap, but it preserves them so they can take as much as they dish out. I usully field 4 JHI and 2 saracen inf with my armies in MP, the saracen inantry are used to hold the center, while my JHI and cavalry smash the enemies rear in unison, works wonders

[Exile]

Quote[/b] (andrewt @ Jan. 10 2003,17:47)]JHI are available in high and late so you could match them up with Varangian Guard. Their cost and speed means that you are better off using them as flankers as their defense is just the same as CMAA and their armor is a tad weaker. Varangian have much better defense.
ohhh...now I can have some more fun. VG against JHI http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Michael the Great]

Baaah,VG will beat Janissaryes,but by only a little..