Good battle...

[kostas84]

I hope im not posting it in the wrong section or breaking any rules.

I had this fight, i was Scythia (for fun and i like the faction) and he was Germania.

It was my first battle after 2 years, so i took an army of : 5 Horse archers, 3 head-hunting maiden units, 2 scythan noble units and 1 barbarian warlord unit, i spent all 10000 money i had available in these units and their upgrades, it was a good battle, i thought i would lose, because Scythia is a bad faction to use in 1vs1 in multiplayer unless the player that plays it is pro(i am not pro).

My units were disobedient in some points of the fight, ull see.

And this is what happened:



Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfh_YoJhiY WATCH IN HD.

I was so suprized.

[caesar_37th]

actually seeing the armies you had a rather large advantage due to HA spam

[kostas84]

Horse archers can be easily defeated by archers, but scythian horse archers are better than average.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Horse archers can be easily defeated by archers, but scythian horse archers are better than average.

[kostas84]

Well i pwn HA with my archers. Well in campaign at least.

After seeing my video i understood that horse archers cant be as easily beaten as in campaign.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Well i pwn HA with my archers. Well in campaign at least.

After seeing my video i understood that horse archers cant be as easily beaten as in campaign.

Use Cantabrian Circle next time and you will increase your win rate by 50% Horse Archers are considered one of the most overpowered units and restricted to 2 units in CWB for a reason.

[{GrailKnight}]

Scythia is a an excellent faction lol No way are they "bad", you don't need to be a "pro" to be good with them.

[kostas84]

I used it in the video.

[|Sith| Max]

Mate you have to understand that a unit of HA in cantabrian can successfully draw every last bit of ammo from an archer unit and survive. even unupgraded standard eastern horse archers. you may lose one or two of them during the period in which they enter the canterburry, but unlike Chariot archers which can be taken down by rhodians and balearics they are harder to hit for the afforementioned CA counters. HA is extremely hard to kill if you dont have good fast moving cav. this is why the clan tournament rules which were made by sane people limit them. let me explain the motivation for the rulles in CWB.
No artillery, because the chances of you hitting before they shoot or melee your crews(because your army is too weak to fend the attack off due to the money you spent on catapults limits you from posing a treat)
No elephants, because a skilled player will amok em or lure them into a phalanx, meaning that you just wasted 3 K.
Max 6 the same units to prevent you from seeing your 20 unupgraded cataphracts lose and force you to take a balanced and upgraded army.
Max 8 cavalry/ archers because those are the units that matter and if it wasnt for these rules clannies would overdose on them even more than they do now, and you would not win. ever.
Max 2 horse archers because those people are more bad ass than Samuel L. Jackson if you owe him money.
Max 2 berserkers because while they are awesome, you are still spending 900 bucks on 12 men with low defense meaning that they will likely get raped by archers that cost 360 a unit with gold gold upgrades.
No redline camping because it is for noobs.

go play against good clannies on these rules. not only will you get a challenge, you will also limit gayness that comes with less adequate rule-sets.

[Plant]

You took 5 horse archers? That is overkill. That wasn't a good battle, that was simply a delayed massacre.

[|Sith| Max]

Plant, their definition of a good battle is not ours. let them have their fun. they dont get that much to start with.

[Dave Strider]

It's not surprising to see a MP win with Scythia

[Delta21]

I'm not much of a horse archer guy myself so I have a question for those who play(and win) more frequently: Do you use both loose formation AND cantabrian circle or solely the cantabrian circle?

Oh....and do you take the HA out of CC(cantabrian circle) for them to retreat or you just set them on skirmish mode and let them on their own? Or you retreat with them while still in CC?

[kostas84]

Well i got in a clan a few weeks ago, they trained me and i did lots of battles with CWB rules, i CERTAINLY dont pick more than 2 HA anymore, im much MUCH better.

Here are a few of my victories:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[scougall9]

i think this is turning into, LOOK HOW AWESOME I AM LOLOLOL thread tbh :/

[kostas84]

I just want to correct peoples opinions about me.

[Delta21]

I just want to correct peoples opinions about me.

I have to say...those screenshots haven't improved my opinion on you by one bit.

[Plant]

I'm not much of a horse archer guy myself so I have a question for those who play(and win) more frequently: Do you use both loose formation AND cantabrian circle or solely the cantabrian circle?

Oh....and do you take the HA out of CC(cantabrian circle) for them to retreat or you just set them on skirmish mode and let them on their own? Or you retreat with them while still in CC?

I use both loose formation and cantabrian circle especially when using chariot archers since chariot archers seem to be more vulnerable due to being larger. I also use loose formation if I am facing other horse archers, or long range archer as facing either may mean that I often have to flee whilst getting shot at and its quicker to already be in loose formation. I use tight formation if I get the feeling that I'm going to be both distracted or about to enter combat whilst skirmshing with my horse archers.

Never set them on cantabrian circle and skirmish mode and leave them on their own, unless infantry is chasing them. In fact, never leave them on skirmish mode if you are paying close attention at them since they like running away in odd directions and into red lines. If I'm paying attention to them, I turn off both skirmishing and cantabrian circle in order to retreat.

I just want to correct peoples opinions about me.

Just curious...What was peoples' opinion of you before you started to post multiple victory screenshots over noobs?...and what do you want to correct the opinion into?

[kostas84]

5 HA = noobish, i just want to show people that im not the same noob as i was in the video.

I won clan members too if you want to see some screenies, but since i dont want to brag i wont post em, but if you want, i will.

[|Sith| Max]

I'll take your word for it, but if you want to show the screens by all means.