Damiel
05-15-2003, 17:14
First off, I'd like to say hello to all board members. I'm newly registered, though I've been reading these boards weekly since the STW, and have played all the games and expansions up until now. This series is great, and VI is superb.
I was a bit surprised that I can't post in the Main Hall, since that's primarily where I go to read. Hopefully I'll be able to soon enough http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif.
I played my first game as the vikings (of course) and found it to be a bit too easy for my taste. I don't think I left a single unit on my home provinces, and spend the entire time raiding the isles and eventually took over ireland, with the entire main island reduced to burning rubble (if I saw a nation building a port/fort/abbey I'd promptly devistate their entire kingdom, and then pull back out again, so I was the only nation with a tech tree.. got a little boring)
Now I'm playing the welsh, and having a great time. I've only lost a few battles, and won many more. I've capitalized on other nations rebellions and captured several good trading provinces, and I'm at the top of my tech tree in my capital, and have specialist provinces producing +armor +weapon +moral armored spearmen, and +moral Welsh Bandits, with a liberal mix of horsemen/bodyguards. I've got some high valor spys/assassin provinces. I've benifited from extended peace, and have yet to war with another faction other than the vikings (which i repelled in short order, they attacked me late) Now the saxons are defeated by the mercians, and my trade empire is at peak, and I need to expand to support more troops. I have my eyes on the entire southern half of the isles, all the way to the northumbrans, but inspite the fact that I've got highly trained/equiped/motivated armored spearmen and bandits, in a few choice armies (I'm still in the process of phasing out some of my older troop stacks) I'm having trouble against the superior foot soldiers the the mercians/vikings.
I was wondering if anyone out there has found an army combination for the welsh that particularily suits them? I've strayed from the celtic warriors, and have only one province that can produce my good armored/weapon armored spears, and only one that can produce bandits, but I'm assuming this combo (with horsemen to flank/chase) is the way to go. Is this the peak of my military?
On defense: I generally back up high on a hilltop and make a line of Armored spear units with a few units of bandits behind them, with the rest of the bandits hidden far infront of my main force on skirmish and also on the flanks. I generally hide my horses in any trees that are to the flanks as well, or keep a few of the units back next to my spearmen/general to burst out of the flanks to meet anyone trying to come in to me from the side. (celtic warriors/morespearmen might work better here) I'll thin the opposing army out with my forward ambushing bandits if there are no horses, or if there are, I'll generally throw a few vollies into their calvary as my own barrels down the hill towards theirs, or I'll just run up the hill and take position behind/just infront of the spearwall. (so they don't get run down by the horses) If there are no horses in the opposing army, i'll use my bandits ambushing to full effect, which usually means an easy win.
On offense: I'll march forward with a few units of bandits infront of the spearwall, and a few behind it, with horses running along the far sides of the map to sneak up their flank. Hills are the only problem here, in which case I'll lead with the spearmen on loose formation until the enemy charges, then I'll close and hold formation and hope to god they can hold out long enough to get the archers with my cav. In this case, my bandits are usually not of much use, as I havn't found the particularily robust in uphill fights, since they will get shot to pieces by enemy archers while trying to get in range, and once they are in range, they are fireing into my own line. So I generally try to run them around the sides for a flank (unless the enemy has horses).
Any suggestions?
I was a bit surprised that I can't post in the Main Hall, since that's primarily where I go to read. Hopefully I'll be able to soon enough http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif.
I played my first game as the vikings (of course) and found it to be a bit too easy for my taste. I don't think I left a single unit on my home provinces, and spend the entire time raiding the isles and eventually took over ireland, with the entire main island reduced to burning rubble (if I saw a nation building a port/fort/abbey I'd promptly devistate their entire kingdom, and then pull back out again, so I was the only nation with a tech tree.. got a little boring)
Now I'm playing the welsh, and having a great time. I've only lost a few battles, and won many more. I've capitalized on other nations rebellions and captured several good trading provinces, and I'm at the top of my tech tree in my capital, and have specialist provinces producing +armor +weapon +moral armored spearmen, and +moral Welsh Bandits, with a liberal mix of horsemen/bodyguards. I've got some high valor spys/assassin provinces. I've benifited from extended peace, and have yet to war with another faction other than the vikings (which i repelled in short order, they attacked me late) Now the saxons are defeated by the mercians, and my trade empire is at peak, and I need to expand to support more troops. I have my eyes on the entire southern half of the isles, all the way to the northumbrans, but inspite the fact that I've got highly trained/equiped/motivated armored spearmen and bandits, in a few choice armies (I'm still in the process of phasing out some of my older troop stacks) I'm having trouble against the superior foot soldiers the the mercians/vikings.
I was wondering if anyone out there has found an army combination for the welsh that particularily suits them? I've strayed from the celtic warriors, and have only one province that can produce my good armored/weapon armored spears, and only one that can produce bandits, but I'm assuming this combo (with horsemen to flank/chase) is the way to go. Is this the peak of my military?
On defense: I generally back up high on a hilltop and make a line of Armored spear units with a few units of bandits behind them, with the rest of the bandits hidden far infront of my main force on skirmish and also on the flanks. I generally hide my horses in any trees that are to the flanks as well, or keep a few of the units back next to my spearmen/general to burst out of the flanks to meet anyone trying to come in to me from the side. (celtic warriors/morespearmen might work better here) I'll thin the opposing army out with my forward ambushing bandits if there are no horses, or if there are, I'll generally throw a few vollies into their calvary as my own barrels down the hill towards theirs, or I'll just run up the hill and take position behind/just infront of the spearwall. (so they don't get run down by the horses) If there are no horses in the opposing army, i'll use my bandits ambushing to full effect, which usually means an easy win.
On offense: I'll march forward with a few units of bandits infront of the spearwall, and a few behind it, with horses running along the far sides of the map to sneak up their flank. Hills are the only problem here, in which case I'll lead with the spearmen on loose formation until the enemy charges, then I'll close and hold formation and hope to god they can hold out long enough to get the archers with my cav. In this case, my bandits are usually not of much use, as I havn't found the particularily robust in uphill fights, since they will get shot to pieces by enemy archers while trying to get in range, and once they are in range, they are fireing into my own line. So I generally try to run them around the sides for a flank (unless the enemy has horses).
Any suggestions?