Troops that make a difference.

**HoreTore** · 03-20-2007, 18:32

The turks: Janissary Heavy Infantry. Once you get them, you can happily abandon your old horsey ways, and crush anything in your way.

**dismal** · 03-20-2007, 20:05

Nothing changes battles like heavy cav.

In particular the General's Bodyguard, and even more so if you're talking about one of those 10 dread Mongol general's bodyguards.

Those boys sure make a difference when your whole army screams and runs away from them.

**Didz** · 03-20-2007, 21:04

Originally Posted by dismal

In particular the General's Bodyguard, and even more so if you're talking about one of those 10 dread Mongol general's bodyguards.

Boyars Son's in a nice compact formation plus [HOLD FORMATION] in a narrow city street take Mongol Heavy cavalry down without too much trouble. I suspect any decent heavy infantry or even armoured spearmen would do the same.

**Slaists** · 03-20-2007, 21:10

Catholic peasants! In the vanilla game, if in sufficient numbers, they own everything.

**FactionHeir** · 03-20-2007, 21:20

Not really. I tried something in M2TW recently that I used to do in MTW:
1 General's bodyguard vs a stack of 20 peasants in custom game.

In MTW, the general would usually end up dead but in M2TW, I managed to beat the peasants each time with about 3-7 bodyguards including general left out of 17.

**Slaists** · 03-20-2007, 22:08

I bet, you did it on a flat map with no ostacles to your cavalry charges ;) Try it on a map with varied terrain.

**FactionHeir** · 03-20-2007, 22:37

Yep, grassy plain on VH. But it would be easier on varied terrain as I could just easily get all the peasants down to exhausted by having them walk hills and then charge them even more easily.