I showed them! Or did i just shoot myself in the foot?

**Servius** · 05-30-2009, 02:49

Also, the order bonus of your garisoning army never exceeds 15, which I think can be achieved with about 8 Dragoon units. It's probably the most cost-effective way of getting those 15 points.

**Phog_of_War** · 05-30-2009, 04:43

At 1704 Dragoons are out of the question.

I just took Warsaw in my Austrian game. The happiness of the Polish people was piss poor after I took over, complaining about their freedom, or some such thing. I had to deal with 3 rebellions in the area, one right after another.

I just kept the army and General that I took the city over with; in the city, repaired the goverment buildings, barracks, and any happiness buildings. Then I sat back and read the letters of complaint I recieved from the wealthy people. I laughed when the peasents decided to go on strike, after they fixed all the buildings. I then moved a smaller army into the area and wated for the rebels to appear.

I have found that crushing rebels is the best way to get a population inline. Military Crackdown is really usefull, especially if you have Dragoons. Sometimes I will just leave a few units in the city and let the rebellions just happen in order to get a military crackdown and get the city under control a little quicker.

Just make sure you win.

**Dayve** · 05-30-2009, 05:37

Cheers everyone. Oh and Megas, the natives might be melee heavy in your game, good for you, but in mine they recruit archers like there's no tomorrow.

**Didz** · 05-30-2009, 10:46

Originally Posted by Dayve

Cheers everyone. Oh and Megas, the natives might be melee heavy in your game, good for you, but in mine they recruit archers like there's no tomorrow.

Exactly, the problem with native american's is not so much their melee units but their missile units.

Both their bowmen and musketmen outrange standard european line infantry and the AI does actually use this range advantage, either to decimate your battle line, or in some cases to pick off your general standing behind it.

The only practical solution I've found it to fight fire with fire and recruit my own native american missile auxilaries as soon as I can. If you do find yourself under missile fire and unable to respond the only real option you have is to advance preferably with 'bayonets' and drive them off. Either that or sacrifice a cavalry unit in the hope of routing them.

**Megas Methuselah** · 05-31-2009, 00:50

Why are we not allowed to recruit light infantry from the start? It was 1780 before I finally got the light infantry doctrine in my Knights of St John campaign.

**Fisherking** · 05-30-2009, 06:34

Originally Posted by Servius1234

Also, the order bonus of your garisoning army never exceeds 15, which I think can be achieved with about 8 Dragoon units. It's probably the most cost-effective way of getting those 15 points.

He is playing as France. They never get dragoons in Europe. They only get them in the far off regions.