Quote Originally Posted by Patron
"In MP pavs are primarily used as anti-pav, and if one gets lucky and kills a few melee soldiers than that is just gravy."

grrrrr I hate that I just send a thin line of spearmen out to annoy them and use longbowmen (they have a higher kills per second than pavs) to shoot over their heads before the enemy finally manages to stop my archers. By which point he will realise he has spent 2000 florins on some useless armoured pavvies and my valour 2 chivalric knights are mowing their way through his vanilla halbs and maas .
Are you saying that you use this online? 'cause if you send out a thin line of spears that's fairly easy to counter.

It can be interesting to try to counter when a player pushes LBs forward, but you have to decide whether to back up or rush, but you can't just sit there. In 3v3 or 4v4 team games you can only push so far forward before you run the risk of getting flanked.

Normally I push my pavs far forward and protect them with heavy cav, which I can keep out of range of LBs. As the LBs push forward, I just stay back out of their range while the pavs slowly wear them down.

In tight quarters any good push with missile troops can be very effective, LBs even more so.

Since most players use 3 pavs online, and pav arbs cost 300 florins, I'm a little confused about the 2000 florin figure.

Love to hear those MP strategies......Thanks
Its amazing how what works online can also work quite well in SP mode.

ichi