Useless units?

[LordK9]

Let's see; I don't build any body guards (other then house carls in VI) although I do repair them. Rarely do I build urban militia as early spears are much better overall. Militia sergeants are also rarely built. Heavy steppe cavalry is too expensive for its usefulness. Crossbows, peasants, and thralls were already mentioned. On an opposite note, vikings seemed to be good anti-armor even in the late period; seemed similar to those Arab units. Don't bother with non-siege engine gunpowder units at all. No need for spears for the German factions in VI as Friedman are better by far. Probably others - just none come to mind off the top of my head.

[Martok]

I will admit I've never really seen the point of training Urban Militia.

[LordK9]

I want to know how nmy post got on there twice; notice the minutes are simply reversed (24/42)?

[Martok]

Probably just a forum glitch. It happens.

[LordK9]

Yeah, my thoughts too (but an unsolved mystery).

As far as useless units, how about that AI? When I fight the Spanish (in early, at least), nothing but Jinnetes - a nice auxiliary but not a frontline unit. The Turks are mainly horse archers. In fact, archers of all types seem to be over built making enemies a walkover. Worse, once available, its all crossbows and regular archers eat them alive.

[HopAlongBunny]

The AI seems to have a handicap re: unit selection.

Probably related to cost effectiveness; bows are cheap and do good damage=>moar bows pls!

The worst is faction reemergence: omg! the Sicilians are back! 3stacks ohh nooo!!1 hmm, ballista, catapults, and archers....

[drone]

The French AI in a vanilla game is just non-stop peasants and ballista. So happy I have modded them out.

I will admit I've never really seen the point of training Urban Militia.

Started a Early game with the English recently. UMs are decent to temporarily bulk up the stranded mainland armies until spears come online. After that, no more recruiting and existing units will be sacrificed against enemy heavy cav.