Your multiplayer armies

[WannabeGosu]

Hmm. Well when I played against scythia, he parked his HA in the front and at the flanks of my army and started to shoot my infantry. I shot with my auxillia and ongers most of his close combat cavalry to pieces, and the horse archers were no match for roman legionaries and praetorian cavalry.

[Vanya]

GAH!

To beat Scythia, use ARQUEBUSIERS!



In the rain... charge in wedgie formation!

Unbeatable!

(Too bad Romans don't have any...)

GAH!

[Sp00n]

GAH!

To beat Scythia, use ARQUEBUSIERS!



In the rain... charge in wedgie formation!

Unbeatable!

(Too bad Romans don't have any...)

GAH!

Lol wernt we undefeated in 2v2s with 32 Arbs oo Shogun.

Devastating.

[Puzz3D]

Ayra Winla,

"For Head Hunting Maidens, it's quite simple: Fastest unit in the game, and that beats Cataphracs and Praetorian cavalry handily."

You mean use the speed advantage to beat the Cataphracts? That would be good to have an counter to Cataphracts because phalanx inf doesn't seem to work very well against them.


Spoon,

STWmod + Samurai Wars

[AFM984]

I'm sorry for intruding (I don't have the game yet} but I'm familliar with the units {downloaded the unit guide made by Soluflame}, I was curious about your strategy with sythia, & it sounds good, I still remmeber MTW With the Turks {very deadly}, If you don't mind I'd like to propose a counter.
What if I line my troops{early legionnari cohorts} in a crescent with the ends of it having Triarii or auxilla, the cavalry as the string of the bow & the missiles in the middle with onagers like so: [IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\أحمد\My Documents\My Pictures\Formation.bmp[/IMG]

[AFM984]

Sorry the image is down
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

[AFM984]

The picture didn't show, that's embarrasing,
_____________L__L
___________L_A__A_L
_________L_____G____L
_______L_______O______L
_____SP__CV CV CV CV___SP
I guess that will have to do it.

Sorry.

[AggonyDuck]

Yuuki their speed ain't what makes them so deadly, but it's their Armour Piercing axes that make them so darn good.

[AyraWinla]

Well... AFM984, usually what I would do in a situation like that is nearly ignore you (I keep an equal size cavalry unit to yours in reserve) and help out my ally with most of my army so that my team has the soldier advantage. :) If you go to help your own ally, that's when I turn back to attack when the defensive formation is broken.

If it's a 1v1, well... I'll admit it's trickier, but the strategy stays the same. Turn off fire at will and skirmish, put the Scythian Noble Women on tribe mode, then go right next to your legionary line to shoot the archers and onageers. Even a quick rush by the legionary standing a few steps away will be too slow before the noble women move away. Of course if I mess up my micro then, it's probably over for me. Having a defensive line of infantry in front of the archers doesn't save them from the noble women, unless the distance between them is very long. If so, I'll circle around with most of my army out of arrow bowshot to shoot at the "unprotected" back units. If the archers move foward to counter, I go shoot them again. If the cavalry counters, then the rest of the standard plan works. If I mess up at any point (Like forgetting to put back Skirmish mode on when the real fighting starts, mistiming a retreat, not noticing a smaller cavalry charge against a group of waiting head hunting maidens, ect), I'll probably get beaten.

I'd say it's a good counter-strategy :) It wasn't the exact same as yours, but I faced in a 1v1 a relatively similar strategy. I won, but let just say I hadn't too much left at the end. Even a formation like that with a passive defense like that isn't hard to beat, but an active one (Short counter-attacks all the time, with 2 or more at once) is very hard to micro against. And with Skirmish off at times against formations like that is pretty dangerous I'll admit.