Crazy Duke
02-08-2004, 20:40
My favorite faction is Spanish, yellow fever.
Usually I don?t use any artillery, much more prefer close combat, even on siege. If it?s a long siege, I use cheaper units to break the wall and finish the defenders with my best troops with archer support. One unit of 100 men is more useful than a short-range artillery.
But once I decide to use cannons. I had demi culverins, five of them. Their value was 1.
So I start conquering Hungary and have river bridge map. Hungarians has 1.000 mans more than I had. Even if I had more archers*, I thought I will not cross the bridge easily.
And I decide to train my five units of demi culverins. And after 90 minutes all 2.560 Hungarians was slaughtered and my cannons earned 5 and 6 valor.
Couple of battles later, fighting with Byzantines, which leader was their king with 9 stars with pretty strong army I made order to my 5 cannons to hit their king. After second shot their king was dead, than my cavalry slaughtered everyone.
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my best unit, yes-simple archers, as someone mention ?vanilla?. I don?t use cheats, and don?t change anything in txt documents, but often like to use no limited ammo. That gives opportunity to AI to have the same archery power on me, and battles are sometimes longer, more interesting and fun.
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Usually I don?t use any artillery, much more prefer close combat, even on siege. If it?s a long siege, I use cheaper units to break the wall and finish the defenders with my best troops with archer support. One unit of 100 men is more useful than a short-range artillery.
But once I decide to use cannons. I had demi culverins, five of them. Their value was 1.
So I start conquering Hungary and have river bridge map. Hungarians has 1.000 mans more than I had. Even if I had more archers*, I thought I will not cross the bridge easily.
And I decide to train my five units of demi culverins. And after 90 minutes all 2.560 Hungarians was slaughtered and my cannons earned 5 and 6 valor.
Couple of battles later, fighting with Byzantines, which leader was their king with 9 stars with pretty strong army I made order to my 5 cannons to hit their king. After second shot their king was dead, than my cavalry slaughtered everyone.
*
my best unit, yes-simple archers, as someone mention ?vanilla?. I don?t use cheats, and don?t change anything in txt documents, but often like to use no limited ammo. That gives opportunity to AI to have the same archery power on me, and battles are sometimes longer, more interesting and fun.
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