View Poll Results: Ancient troop type - which would you be?

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  • Cavalry

    16 19.51%
  • Archer Cavalry

    12 14.63%
  • Emissary

    4 4.88%
  • Marksmith

    1 1.22%
  • Other

    3 3.66%
  • Sword Infantry

    9 10.98%
  • Spear Infantry

    4 4.88%
  • Archer

    12 14.63%
  • Javelin Infantry

    1 1.22%
  • Siege Engineer

    6 7.32%
  • Merc

    6 7.32%
  • Assassin

    7 8.54%
  • Agent

    1 1.22%
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    which would you feel best with???
    pillage, plunder, burn...

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    Engineer. As a chemist (supposedly) I should be able to produce some rather entertaining methods of dismantling castles... and people too.

    Of course, mine would mainly be an advisory role, I wouldn't want to go around exposing myself to harm now would I?
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    Spear infantry for me because I presume it requires the least amount of skill and I have no skills for any of the jobs listed.





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    Id have to say that id like to be a Swordsman, mainly because i would be just below the rank of knight but i wouldnt have a death wish or have sudden impulses to charge forces that outnumber me like 100-1

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    Since i have a problem with authority.
    My best place would be a merc.
    That way i can fight those i opposse, and get rich doing it.
    Honesty is the road to starvation....

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    I'd be the horse archer riding with the sultan himself.
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    I do fencing, so sword infantry for me
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    Austria is destined to rule the world.

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    Austria will one day be lowest in the world.)

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    I'd be an archer because, while I don't even know how to shoot one I've always wanted to learn.
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    Mercenary for me, I fight, i get paid, i die.

    so is the life of a merc.

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    Archer... I have always wanted to shoot a Longbow
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    Cavalry Archer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Quote[/b] (Eastside Character @ Mar. 08 2004,16:57)]Cavalry Archer.

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    Same here Eastside.
    Since I am not the bravest of the bunch, I'd be
    more apt to launch arrows upon a steed, then bolt
    away when charged by infantry
    "Your army flees! A pox upon the cowardly wretches!"
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    Cavalry, because if my side is losing,then i could escape
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    The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

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    ASSASIN booya, id be like woosh, then slash, then swish...

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    test my arms, kick like crazy, Ive been trying way too long.
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    Siege Engineer,

    after the discover of gunpowder

    It would be a blast....



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    Cavalry (preferably heavy) because it would be fun to role over some lowly peasents.
    How do you shoot the devil in the back? What happens if you miss?

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    missile cav of the heavy variety like boyar.
    great to shoot up the enemy and then charge in and bust some heads.

    can beat almost everything I see. what I can't beat I shoot and outrun.

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    Engineer, definately. I love throwing rocks. Watching big items fly, anticipating big crashes. Even the computer effects of a seige are fun. I nearly always command my own seiges, b'c its fun to break down walls, gates, etc.

    Although I've found that auto-resolving a seige usually costs me fewer troops than doing it myself. Maybe I've got to improve my seige tactics. Anyone else find that auto resolving seiges is less expensive?

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    Can I pick something not on the list?

    If so, I'd be the guy planning the whole thing - kind of a tatician who wasn't likely to get slaughtered by enemy troops or in a freak pikeman skewers friend accident.
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    Definately archer, i couldnt stnad in the way of a bunch of charging men with shapr pointy things

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    Emissary, I think. WAY out of the way of people trying to kill me with pointy things

    As long as I could avoid getting my head cut off...

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    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Quote[/b] (katank @ Mar. 09 2004,10:24)]missile cav of the heavy variety like boyar.
    great to shoot up the enemy and then charge in and bust some heads.

    can beat almost everything I see. what I can't beat I shoot and outrun.
    So true

    I consider a cavalry archer to be the most flexible and versatile unit type. The missile cavalry of good quality, well trained and equipped, mounted on the fastest and most reliable steeds of preferably Arab breed, is a perfect unit

    If they cannot win a battle, they just waste their arrows and retreat unspoilt, leaving wounded and tired enemies to bury their less fortunate fellows

    What good is a swiss pikemen unit if it so heavy that it tired so fast, and the arrow shower slowly eliminates them? Sure, they could destroy horse archers in melee, but before they are able to do it, there are not many of them left.

    So this is why Cavalry Archer(havent explained before).

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    indeed, cavarcher is my second choice...very versatile, quite useful, the ones i like to have always in battle
    pillage, plunder, burn...

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    all my battles with huge number of kills and single digit or even no casualties were due to liberal use of HAs.

    I played early nov recently and fell in love again with those boyars.

    they totally own, even in melee. esp. my jedi prince who took out half of a byz army by himself including a byz prince my valour 7 boyar was great. BTW, this was without general's bonus which made him V9. absolute slaughter.

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    I voted 'other' simply because I'm distinctly of the opinion that I would probably start out as class 'peasant', but my class would rapidly be upgraded to 'corpse'. I'm simply not sure if it would be a battlefield sharp object in flesh upgrade, or a tried to run away from sharp object but couldn't outrun horse and the king wasn't going to pay 2 florins to ransom a 1/3 florin peasant upgrade.

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    Hey Phatose, that is what I was going to say

    We'd better drink hearty whatever swill we can get our hands on for tomorrow we die.
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    *wants to be a samurai cav archer*

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    what they need are samurai pie-tasters...i wonder if they had those...hmm
    pillage, plunder, burn...

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    cant believe more peeps chose assassins and agent types, lotta freedom, and odd versatility stuff involved with such positions, certainly not just a battle after another battle
    pillage, plunder, burn...

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    Cavalry

    Trampling down ppl on foot always seemed like a good way to get rid of stress at the end of the day

    Besides...you get to look at ppl from above

    In war, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
    Sun Tzu on the Art of War

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