How to get Mounted Thunder Braves?

[Slaists]

I believe it's a fair number of wins against pale-faces (30 or more) before one gets mounted thunder-braves. My problem was: I killed off the French too fast... and the Spanish were driven off the continent by Mesoamericans. Thus, no more battles against the pale-faces for me and no mounted thunderbraves either. Won the campaign without them.

[Benandorf]

They're overrated, truthfully. I got them, and built some, but they tend to shoot each other if you have too many moving around. And they don't put out as many shots as thunder braves (who don't seem to have the reforming problem that muskets have).

[Slaists]

They're overrated, truthfully. I got them, and built some, but they tend to shoot each other if you have too many moving around. And they don't put out as many shots as thunder braves (who don't seem to have the reforming problem that muskets have).

well, I did not get the mounted thunderbraves myself so I would not know. but, in principle, their advantage would come from the fact that they give an apache player the great advantage of being able to harass enemy long before the opponent reaches the main line and continue gunpowder shots in back after the lines have engaged. at the latter point, foot thunderbraves frequently need to stop because they require a straight, unobstructed line of fire.

[Cheetah]

I got horse breeder's tipi and gun maker's tipi after 5 wins vs spanish/french troops. Next turn I defeated an other french army (half stack) lead by the faction heir, very next turn I received both horse breeder's and gun maker's wigwam (i.e. I can make mounted thunder braves).

[Rozanov]

There's one big advantage that having mounted troops brings you for the Apacheans:

you can now run down routing units, saves having to fight them all over again.

[icek]

i received horse/mussket tipi after 2 wins againts french.

[WhiskeyGhost]

i got my grubby little hands on the game, and found it easy to just auto-calc some already won battles. Usually the enemy retreats with a few troops, and you can repeat it a few times. In fact, i think i fought the same stack of French Leaders troops about 6 or 7 times before Auto managed to kill him off (this got me both the regular mounted and the gun mounted and thunder braves all in one turn)