Quote Originally Posted by Myth View Post
Yes but you tend to carry archers in your AR stacks which IMO is a liability - like in the second Britannia game where you had expensive longbowmen in all your armies. Sure Poland is nowhere near as strong as the TO but a 2 : 1 ratio with archers in your stack is still a decent result. Ask Thanatos what casualties he took in a 3v1 fight of his lithuanians vs one full TO stack. Granted, he had archers in his stacks too...

If you want to see perfect AR stacks, look at how Tristan had composed Antioch's armies in LS and later how Thanatos continued playing, or see my army from the first Britannia game where it 1v2ed the Irish+Welsh armies led by their respective kings, I think it really matters just what percentage of the whole are good AR units and what are fodder units that are only marginally effective but take up income via upkeep.

Of course when the enemy is coming at you, you recruit whatever you can, so I can't blame you for having archers as Poland since you've got literally two turns to recruit before the TO comes to play.
I have never considered myself particularly good at AR, and I do tend to just recruit everything that is available. Which is what I did with poland. I didn't really have the option to try to get an army of heavy infantry.