Best RK units

[Fredericus Iulius]

I was going to start a RK campaign and I was wondering which units you recommend to recruit? Which are your favourite units?

[007hah]

depends on your tactics.
The RK have the best armour ratings, and have -because of that- the strongest Infantry, archers and heavy cavalry.
My tactic in The new Shadow:
quickly invade ithilien and build a fort to block the (only!) bridge across the ("horizontal") river.
Then store as many KINGS LONGBOWMEN as you can. They have very large sooting range and FLAMING arrows. Then juist wait for the great armies of the southerlings...let them besiege you and counterattack. Lure their units in shooting range with some fast unit but DONT SHOOT. Wait until you cant any more , flee back into the fort and as their units TURN (to save arrows!!!!!!!!)...burn them...xD


This way i have smashed 4 or 6 large armies with 6 kings(!) longbowmen. Ans some guard units, but you dont need them really. Use some fast and/or cheap lure unit, it might get hurt..
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As for "fair" tactics, on the open battlefield:

Militia are cheap, have good armor and can withstand strong attacks..a good "block unit" to stop the enemy.Useful almost anywhere-and thei´re cheap

Then some expensive shock units in the flanks like heavy infantry (these elite sword units (not the "cheap" ones)..forgotten their name) or of course the heavy(!) cavalry which tends to frighten infantry.
The "1st" cheaper swort unit is not of much use- too expensive. Save the money for the "2nd" sword unit (s.a.) it frightens infantry.
Then of course the KINGS longbowmen with fire missiles. Not as mass destructive here as in fort defense, but useful too.
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The huge advantage to the other nations is the very good armor.
Only Adunabar (in Shadow) has equal armor ratings.
The other nations are relatively easy to kill with fire missiles.
But of course i speak of the "mass" units. Mumakil or Black Serpent cavalry are .. better.


PS and i believe Numenorian mass units have the best morale of all.

[Fredericus Iulius]

Thanks, very helpfull. Unfortunately my CD player decided that the only week in the year when my family is gone and I have some free time was the right one to depart...

I'm just not so sure about fire arrows. As far as I know they should be less deadly than normal arrows. Their only advantage is to panick the enemy, which you can exploit only if you can attack them also on melee.

[Aradan]

Fire arrows are less accurate than normal arrows and take triple time to reload; they also don't get any attack bonuses, so their ability to panic and burn stuff is pretty much their only advantage. Oh, and they are kewl.