Janissary Heavy Infantry in the Woods for 500 please.
Loved luring enemy troops into ambushes or simply into the woods to be sliced and diced by these guys. Cavalry was especially fun to dice up.
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Janissary Heavy Infantry in the Woods for 500 please.
Loved luring enemy troops into ambushes or simply into the woods to be sliced and diced by these guys. Cavalry was especially fun to dice up.
I go with gothic knights.
Templar Knights:2thumbsup:
Monster Bombard only using The Turks :laugh4:
Cathapracts or Varangian Guard, just the way they looked, you couldn't use them that much on the battlefield.
OMG, you are just like me :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Conradus
the same and meQuote:
Originally Posted by Conradus
the housecarls you could recruit in scandinavia in early; armored,reasonable defence, great morale and an almighty, armor-piercing punch. they chewed up royal knights pretty easily.
gallowglasses were great too.
Alan cavalry a´nd the hungarian horsearcher strelcy or however it is spellt.
Kalle
Oooh. Gallowglasses, Huscarles, Billmen. And didn't ... erm ... wasn't it Switzerland or somewhere round there that had some proper leet infantry?
-edit- Wasn't it Swiss Pikemen or something?
Vikings! (in regular MTW) playing Danes.
Step Cav playing Russian.
Annie
what, you really liked the steppe cav? I always thought they turned and ran as soon as anybody gave them a hard stare.. they did run really fast though, nice for pursuing routers.
Yes, but:
in MP: it is very fast harashing unit (of course, I upgraded it to valor 3 or 4).
in SP: hit and run and produce a big load of them so you could "refine" them to higher valor. Once having higher valor, it is hard to beat them even if you could catch them :)
Anniep
Ottoman Infantry
I see, if theyre valoured-up to mounted sergeant levels of morale and fighting ability they would be very nice. I always tried to use them for flanking, figuring their mobility would be nice for getting them around the enemy line and into their rear, but once they got there they always seemed to get second toughts and remeber some other urgent things they had to do back home, even before the clobberin` started.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyAnn
Feudal Men At Arms. Cheap, quick to get, good morale and capable of killing almost any early unit. They are extremly useful and valour has a huge effect as well.
The magic '4' armies I used to create:
4x Billmen
4x Chivalric Knights
4x CMAA
4x Longbowmen
Unstopppable conquering machine.
Except in the desert. :stupido2:
Varangian Gaurd!!
This is one tough choice for me, let's see...
I'll go with Janissary Heavy Infantry(JHI) in the very first place: You just won't find a better melee infantry in the whole game, and that includes Chivalric and Gohthic Foot knights, Swiss Armoured pikemen, Gallowglasses, Billmen and some other great sets of soldiers.
Some lack the speed(CFK, GFK and SAP), or the discipline (...pretty much all of catholic world, hehe), or have too much armour, making them lousy fighters in desert (again the foot knights + SAP). Fast, diciplines, excellent morale, completely slaughter cavalry, armour piercing attack....
Expensive as hell, but just gotta love them!
Now second is a though choice as well... damn, i'll just name a bunch of my favourites:
Sipahis of the Porte: good all around fighters (its very hard to kill one of these) and archers... too bad that the unit is so small (meh, i ended up modding this).
Longbowmen/Turcoman foot: The top archers of the game. Turcomans were almost immortals when in loose formation
Viking Huscarles : The downside of this unit was that i was too afraid of using them in later eras (because there was no replacement)
Steppe Heavy cavalry : I was amazaed for how versatile these little guys were: decent missile troops + close combat + easy to get
Gallowglasses : a must have for any christian army: they kinda fill the role ghazis have in the muslim world
Bedouin camels: Oh!, the pleasant surprise of wathcing these guys rout crusader knights has no price...
There are some more... but i'll leave it here
Varangian Guard with all upgrades, just churn up anything that gets in their way.
Pronaoi Allagion rocked also. (can't spell)
Longbowmen or Janissary Infantry.
Swiss Pikemen in multiplayer.
Ottoman Sipahi come a close second.
i forgot billmen as well those things were absolutely devestating looked cool and it was awesome if you flanked knights with them :smash: I havent played enough mtw to knwo what longbows are like ill have to have another go and get them on campgain.