Tiny, yet indispensable units

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 09-08-2005, 12:21

I would like to make a tribute to ten Saxon Husscarles, who led the desperate charge of a ragged army against the Polish and won through to save many English women and children.

May you rest in peace my friends.

**antisocialmunky** · 09-08-2005, 21:22

The starting unit of Naptha you get in Naples as the Byzantine once killed about 200 rebels over the period of 2 rebellions and 3 religious uprisings. They eventually got shot to death by Pope funded archers, but it did allow my 6 star general to start whipping the Huns since my ships were hugging the African Coast at the time.

**Bregil the Bowman** · 09-08-2005, 22:54

The best small units I ever fought were controlled by the AI. It was my second campaign game, I was England and well into the invasion of Spain. The Spanish king had two stacks in Aragon and one in Valencia which held only two men. So I pitched the best of my army into Aragon and left a stack of "odds and sods" in Valencia to cut off the Spanish retreat. I auto-resolved the Valencia battle.

The two Spanish soldiers (Royal Knights, ex-princes) killed 155 men and routed the rest.

I was so shocked I replayed the battle properly, to see what these War Gods could do. Version two went a little differently. I sent in two units of (turncoat) jinettes, on set on engage and one on hold formation, and both knights went down in a shower of javelins. One of the pinning jinettes died, possibly hit in the back by his own side.

Anyone else seen such variance beteen the auto-resolve and a proper battle?

**antisocialmunky** · 09-08-2005, 23:50

Auto resolve sucks unless you can't win the battle normally. If they were your knights, you would have never won, but Autocalc would have given you a great victory.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 09-09-2005, 02:03

I only auto-resolve if I really don't want to deal with HA madness, or am feeling particularly lazy...

Otherwise I play the battles through, and if you have a large army those tiny units are great as shock troops.

**Deus Ex** · 09-09-2005, 02:20

Originally Posted by Vladimir

This is mainly about a small but indespensable army which turned into a compilation of Tiny indispensable units..

sorry

DE

**Productivity** · 09-09-2005, 05:39

I tend to end up with a unit of 10-15 arbalests who act as rangers, and flank around. They usually climb in valour very quickly (as I usually get them firing straight into huge masses), and I've seen them take out kings, high level knights etc. without too many problems.