What Units are a Must in your Army?

[Emperor Tom]

If you had to choose 1 of each of the following categoreis what wou they be? And what is your reason?

Infantry, Cavalry, Missle, Seige

For Me:

Infantry: Italian Spear Militia
reason: Cheap, yet able to compete with Polands Spearmen and Armoured Seargents! So I can have a bunch of cities and keep high income rates!

Cavalry: Familiga Ducale
reason: Strong, well armored, and can recruit in cities!

Missles: Dismounted Dvor
reason: Well armoured and super awesome missle power!

seige: The Serpitine!
reason: I usually just use ladders so I like to have weapons best to tae out units. This weapon is absolutely devastating!

[Vince Noir]

20 Units of Highland Rabble. An unstoppable barbaric and courageous force of drunks that could wreak havoc on the mightiest of empires.

[Emperor Tom]

20 Units of Highland Rabble. An unstoppable barbaric and courageous force of drunks that could wreak havoc on the mightiest of empires.

How? They are utterly usleless and very weak. Nothing an army of horse archers couldn't deal with. Or my Familiga Ducale!

[bleach]

19 horse archers + general's unit. What else do you need?

[Samir]

20 Units of Highland Rabble. An unstoppable barbaric and courageous force of drunks that could wreak havoc on the mightiest of empires.

so true
horse archers are for loosers...

[Retribution]

20 Units of Highland Rabble. An unstoppable barbaric and courageous force of drunks that could wreak havoc on the mightiest of empires.

I used to do this so much. It's the most fun you can have on this game without winning a battle.

[ChewieMuse]

I used to do this so much. It's the most fun you can have on this game without winning a battle.

I was bored so I put about 1000 RitterBruters(Dismounted) against about 6 Different Full armies of Peasants... Mass Havoc, The ground was LITTERED with bodies, I wish I had a screenie of it, I was just like *tear* at the end of the battle lol

[Hunter Makoy]

some tact?


def. a unit of archers that can deploy stakes. also some good shock cav. (lancers or even noble knights work well enough). as far as foot goes even something as expendable as heavy billmen can work very well if used right. u gotta get the charge right and make sure they dont get charged for them to be effective tho.

also norse axemen work very well for shock infantry.

[touchmaster]

I've made whole armies of Arquebusiers and ALWAYS win. Some times I have cavalry and art, but that's mostly it. I can conquer a whole continent with those.

[frederickm]

in vanilla full mamluk

[Lysimachus]

Armoured Sergeants. As a western faction I never for some reason start conquering till I get access to them (unless I use an Italian faction).

[robbo]

Infantry: Sword + Shield Heavy Infantry (e.g. Armoured Swordsmen)
Form the backbone of most armies and nearly all factions have access to them. Can take a lot of missile fire, hold a line really well and can even stand up to a heavy cavalry charge if in a defensive position.

Cavalry: Fast moving light cavalry (e.g. Scouts)
Useful for chasing down routers, archers and mounted archers. While not packing the punch of heavy cavalry they can still do the same sort of hit and run tactics into an enemies rear. Heavy cavalry suffer from slow movement which can be a pain when up against mounted archers.

Missile: A high level archer (e.g. Retinue Longbowmen)
Arc fire is a must, so I'd take archers over crossbows and firearms any day. Stakes arn't necessary if you have access to good spearmen/pikemen however I like my archers to be able to cope with a little bit of melee.

Siege: Trebuchet
I rarely use artillery. Nearly all of my siege assaults are auto-resolved (been through campaigns without fighting one assault on the battlemap). Light cavalry can deal with any long range artillery. I sometimes use trebuchets to fling some cows in an an open battle but that's about it.

[wupwup]

infantry: zewi handlers. not particulary good but i love the animations and look.
cavalry: do elephanst count? :p
misile: norse archers. cheap, good at taking out weak early infantry and can handle most
militias in combat
seige: bombard. only one i can be bothed to ever research or ever capture. i cant be bothered with slow moveing armies

[ETG]

High Level Archers: I cant go without them, Retinue Longbowmen or Scots Guard or something smimilar are NEEDED.

[Silent Assassin]

I like

2 Units of trebuchet or basilik
1 General unit
4 Heavy cavalry units
6 Good archer units (stakes would be nice)
7 units of Chivalirc Knights

[Alxaro]

I take anything that's heavily armoured + longbows if I'm England

[Lysimachus]

I forgot about the other categories. My bad!

Infantry : Armoured Sergeants, Moorish Swordsmen/Al-Haqa Infantry or Spearmen

Cavalry : Feudal Knights, Boyar Sons or Royal Mamluks/Andalucian Cavalry/Qapukulu

Missile : Crossbowmen (preferably Genoese/Pavise), Dismounted Dvor, Desert Archers

Artillery : I've never advanced far enough in gun technology, so my answer is simply restricted to Grand Bombards.

[ChewieMuse]

Infantry:Ottoman Infantry(The Turks)
They look nice, and also Deal a huge Toll on other enemy Infantry, and Can take a Severe beating, also they are Great Archers

Calvary:Generals Body Gaurd
They .. Um yea they speak for themselfs

[NW Leyt]

Hungary on Stainless Steel right now...

Infantry: Pavise Spearmen
reason: Always been appealing. Best available right now. Fairly reliable.

Cavalry: Any missile
reason: It's all that I can have right now. Very good for lone assaults for taking enemy generals out.

Missile: Peasant archers
reason: Once again, it's the best available. And I need someone with flaming arrows.

Siege: Trebuchet
reason: I don't have it yet. But, nothing except a cannon is better for taking out walls.

[cottontail]

Janissaries, all kinds, work wonders. Guns to scare people, archers to kill people from a distance (and nice and close with stakes) and heavy infantry to massacre the survivors. Add in a few cavalry units to chase down the routers, missile cavalry (obvious) and even a cannon or two, and you have an unstoppable force.