Best Solution for Turk Archer Armies?

[ichi]

Best Solution for Turk Archer Armies?

Yes, lots of cav. The alt is lots of missiles, but a strong cav rush is the best, quickest way to scatter hybrids.

Do archers really fire over other units' heads successfully?

Archers and LBs do a good job of arcing their arrows, Xbows, Arbs, and guns shoot a straighter trajectory and friendly fire is prob. Swinging missiles out to the flanks seems to help reduce this.

ichi

[dgfred]

Yes, lots of cav. The alt is lots of missiles, but a strong cav rush is the best, quickest way to scatter hybrids.



Archers and LBs do a good job of arcing their arrows, Xbows, Arbs, and guns shoot a straighter trajectory and friendly fire is prob. Swinging missiles out to the flanks seems to help reduce this.

ichi

Also if not able to be on a hill, the flank archers/missiles are devastating to enemy units that are not facing them .

[DensterNY]

Here is one method I came across to deal with enemies who have fast, missle cavalry. First, as mentioned earlier set up a nice wall of spearmen and long thin lines of archers. Second, use light cavalry to draw them close to your spear/archer kill zone... walk to within their firing range then run back and stop short of your spears which will put them in range of your stationary archers.

I used this method against the Turks and each and every time they chased after my Hobilars and got peppered with arrows from five units of 60 archers. At the end I finished off nearly five units of Turk archers and all it cost me was 27 Hobilars.

One thing really funny was that as my Hobilars started getting battered they started to rout when they came under fire from the Turks. This encouraged their horsemen to chase me recklessly and all that would happen is that my Hobilars run back to my spearmen and there they'd catch their nerve.

[yesdachi]

If I know the battle is going to be tedious but the outcome is not in question I autocalc.

Not much help as far as strategy goes but I just saved you 30 minutes.

[BAD]

If I know the battle is going to be tedious but the outcome is not in question I autocalc.

Not much help as far as strategy goes but I just saved you 30 minutes.

In some cases it may have even been 90 minutes! -_-