What is your troop production personality?
Are you the king/sultan who make quickly mass troops or do you only choose a specific group of infantries, archers and cavalries?
What are you biased to and why?
Mao - biased towards mass troops, light infantry
Genghis - biased towards missile cavalry and light cavalry
Stalin - biased towards heavy infantry, mass troops and artillery
Napoleon - biased towards a mix of light and heavy infantry, light cavalry
Henry - biased towards heavy and light cavalry, missile infantry
Caesar - biased towards heavy infantry, light cavalry, siege artillery
Other - What are you biased to?
What is your troop production personality?
Are you the king/sultan who make quickly mass troops or do you only choose a specific group of infantries, archers and cavalries?
What are you biased to and why?
Last edited by Arto; October 17, 2008 at 04:58 PM.
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I'm biased to the Stalin personality of heavy inf. and artilery. This is so because most of my tactics involve constant combat while artilery rains hell upon enemies on the way, eventually the enemy no matter what units breaks under the sheer power and size of my army.
stalin gets the closest I guess, heavy infantry is defenitley what I want and artillery is needed tp break trough settlements.
Honestly, I prefer a complete mix. My ideal force includes 2-3 units each of heavy infantry, light infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry...you get the idea. I've got my tactics for it.
I like a balanced army. with everything in it. Heavy cav, HA, a bit of spears/pikes, heavy infantry, some archers, maybe 2-3 catapults or some other artillery. This is why I like Byzantium in campaign as you can build nice balanced army with everything in it.
True, the units may be weaker then their counterparts but as a combination they are awesome.
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Henry for me, except I have heavy everything. Heavy infantry (such as order spearmen, armored swordsmen/english knights, etc. ), heavy cavalry (rittenbruder, feudal/chivalric knights, broken lances) and archers (the good kind like venitian archers (personal favorite), retinue longbowmen, sherewood archers since although they have no armor, they make up for it with attack and charge bonuses, byzantine guard archers, etc.)
I hate missile cavalry, mostly because of the mongols and the time it takes for them to kill off the enemy. However I do like gunpowder cavalry as an assassination force.
I tend not to use light troops since I value being able to take an arrow over maneuverability.
I don't have enough posts to vote but I suppose I'd be sort of a mix between Stalin and Henry. I like to have only 3-4 different types of units in any of my armies and the main focus is on heavy infantry. The important thing for me is that all the Heavy Infantry, spearmen, archers etc. are the same unit. My ideal army would consist of:
6 x Heavy Infantry
4 x Spearmen/Pikemen
4 x Archers
2 x Artillery
2 x Light Cav
2 x General
I don't like using Horse Archers at all which is why I never play a faction that focuses on them. Also, if I don't have Generals available I'll use Heavy Cav and swap the light cav for more Heavy Infantry or Archers or Pikemen (depending on the faction).
Just under half my army is always heavy infantry. I then use equal numbers of heavy cavalry and archers (depending on how good mine are) and several units of artillery. A bit like Stalin I suppose. I train up armies like this, give them a general and use that as a taskforce for a specific target, unlike the Stalinistic mode of sending several armies to do the job of one.
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Genghis, of course. I just love those mongol Heavy Mounted Archers in black armor.
I guess Stalin. But here's my ideal stack:
1 general
2 other HC (can include eles)
1 LC (chase down routers)
6 front line infantry (spears, light, or cheap heavy)
4 2nd line infantry (shock and other heavy)
4 ranged
2 artillery (can include eles)
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tons of missile infantry, especially with the french, english and turks
then some heavy infantry and ambushers
Heavy infantry and missile troops.![]()
It depends on the units available to my faction. Often I'm not terribly concerned about the quality of my line units. Good missile units to sap enemy moral before they engage and good heavy cavalry to first defeat the enemy cavalry (with careful micro management you can do this before the main clash) and break the enemy line as soon as it engages yours. Acually killing the enemy is a secondary consideration to making them run away.