Help! I can't beat the Byz...

**mfberg** · 10-04-2004, 15:38

On defense

Archer/Mtd Xbow/catapult
Armoured Spear

Kat Tr.archer V guard

mtd xbow mtd xbow

Get 2 mounted crossbows behind the byz, if you are lucky the kats will chase one and get tired, leaving the other to shoot up the v guard. Use the covered archers to shoot up the naptha/Tr archers.

On the offense go for raids of just mtd crossbows with 1 armoured spear. Position 2 mtd crossbows behind the armoured spear in a defensive position and use the other mtd crossbows like any good horse archer, concentrating on the Kats first.

mfberg

**bretwalda** · 10-04-2004, 19:32

Thanks, again! ;) Armoured Spearman: is this a unique unit or just the plain spearman with good armor? It could be pretty well that I used mostly sword inf. that was the reason I did so bad...

**PFJ_bejazuz** · 10-04-2004, 19:37

keep with your sword inf as the main flavour for your foot dude

spice them up with the occaisional pointy stick but as a rule the spear's attack value is so low that its often better to have a sword's kill rate against the enemy horse so that even though your guys are droppin like flies - their's are too

sticks - hold

swords - kill

holding the front with sticks while the swords chop up their backs being the ideal

**HopAlongBunny** · 10-04-2004, 20:34

Missile fire all the way on Byz generals...good idea for VG too.

Unless of course you don't mind losing 1000+ men in melee, and not killing your target

**bretwalda** · 10-04-2004, 23:46

Well, killing the general did make it easier... And it only cost a few royal (k)nights ;) I guess I will wore them down... hopefully. But after that I have to rebuild my army from scratch ;) so little will be left...

**Quietus** · 10-05-2004, 02:40

If you don't want to spend a lot of money on Royal Knights then you can still use Armoured Spearmen to sandwich.

More so, if you just rout the General/Heir/Emperor and position the Hobilars close by to anticipate their escape route, then you capture them when they flee and ransom them for a handsome price ( the Byzantines especially pay a lot too).

Keep ransoming them. If they out of money then they can't pay and eventually run out of heirs. At that point, they degenerate to rebels. You just pick them apart after that.

**bretwalda** · 10-05-2004, 11:23

I can't build Armoured Spearmen - is this in the Viking Invasion expansion (that I dont have) or I am just not that advanced yet? I have Chivalric Sergants, they fare the best against the Byz, yet.