Haha, my bad. I meant Muslims.
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Haha, my bad. I meant Muslims.
for me the best muslim heavycavalry unit is the timurit elephant :D
Of course they do, but as I said, I'm about begin production on late units, so I haven't tried them yet...Quote:
Originally Posted by sabutai
Well, I WAS about to produce them.... However, my PC crashed a week ago, and I'm still trying to get it up and going... Well, at least I'm able to use this forum now...that's an improvement...
On another side note, my total war cd's are about 80 kilometers away from here... ~:mecry: Guess that's the punishment you get when you avoid the startup cd-check....
Slightly back to topic however, I REALLY miss the basic camel units you got in MTW1, Beduoin Camels or something like that I think they were called. Very, very basic, armed with swords, shields, bonus in deserts and scared horses. Excellent for tying down and sometimes beating the much stronger western knights. And they were available right from the start!
Well, I started a game as the Turks and so far the cavalry I've gotten are pretty ordinary - then again the "best" melee cavalry I can build are Sipahis, which can double up as decent missile cav. I've been using my generals a lot more to get that initial break in the enemy line to try and incite panic.
Armenians do wonders against the back of a byzantine army. Just get them before your enemy does...
I thought camel-gunners had musketeer range, or is that too good to be true? Or do they have longbow range but do musketeer damage?
After playing Turkish campaign I'm not too big of a fan of Qakupulu, I had them fighting against some crusader knights and they got owned, so after that I never really used them on heavy cav anymore, just on infantry, which they did a good job.
Musketeer range, but slightly worse accuracy, and slightly less damage.
They fire on the move too, a big advantage over musketeers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carl
True enough, and I think the fixed accurracy nullifies the accurracy penalty for doing so too.
The overall best Muslim heavy cavalry is probably the Timurid Elephant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Memnoch
For the Turks, Kapikulu is the best in the qualification terms described by you.
I think it is inefficient to equate the use of Muslim cavalry to Western cavalry or to seek equal qualification terms.
The Eastern cavalry have different strengths, namely mobility and missiles. Hence it's better to use light cavalry backed by few heavy cavalry units in Eastern armies.