Dealing with snaga ranged units as a Dwarf

**GenWolfe** · January 27, 2012, 08:47 AM

It takes awhile to get decent ranged units.

And dwarfs are too slow to chase them down.

The only thing I could think to do was hire some Dale Calvary mercenaries.

Is there a way to force them into hand to hand besides cutting off their retreat.

**lolIsuck** · January 27, 2012, 08:53 AM

Chase them down, the snagas are not that much faster so they have no time to throw their missiles and the AI/skirmish mode will scrue it up somewhere

**Mhaedros** · January 27, 2012, 09:01 AM

Also make sure to save your Dale merceneries for Snaga archers/skirmishers. They will really be a pain in the ass before you get access to the Iron Crossbowmen

**GenWolfe** · January 27, 2012, 09:08 AM

Thanks for the tips.

**Mikail Mengsk** · January 27, 2012, 09:45 AM

search for other 123124912921 thread about snagas, you'll find even more...

**Tar-Aldarion** · January 27, 2012, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mikail Mengsk

search for other 123124912921 thread about snagas, you'll find even more...

But, considering people are lazy, were do you find it? In the darkness of forgotten posts together with how to kill balrogs-threads? I tried (not much effort put into it though) to find it, but I failed.

Against Snaga's just send some useless crap in a long thin line(1) in loose formation(2) until you reach the end of the map.

**Vifarc** · January 27, 2012, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by Tar-Aldarion

I tried (not much effort put into it though) to find it, but I failed.

Liar. If you did tried you would have succeded.

**k/t** · January 27, 2012, 05:26 PM

Do a search. You've been on this forum long enough to know that, so I think a ban is warranted.

**Lord Derfel** · January 27, 2012, 05:38 PM

I made a post about this very thing some time ago. I got some good suggestions but it is still very annoying fighting snagas with dwarves. I also find that Dale cavalry does not perform well against a unit of Snaga. The Dale cavalry will win but it will suffer many casualties.

What I usually do, is use my Dale cavalry to get far behind them, I then charge them head on with a dwarf unit Once the snaga unit starts to run from my dwarf unit, I charge them with my dale cavalry this way they are sandwiched between my dwarf unit and my cavalry. This works well sometimes but it is still annoying fighting snagas. I may end up lowering their stats

**Spartan777** · January 27, 2012, 05:41 PM

Snaga chasing is a pain but the ai is stupid so if you chase them will multiple units in groups it will confuse them and you can usually pin them down and crush them.

I'm being overly simpy here but have one unit charge right past them on to their left flank and another to their right without clicking on the actually enemy units as this seems to alert them to your intentions. One you have them hemmed in charge and slaughter those pesky folks. This is mainly for after a battle when you have one but they still have plenty of the buggers throwing things after you. At the start of the battle I find it best to ignore them and deal with the infantry. Once the infantry is finished, the snaga are just an annoyance.

I personally find Rhun a harder deal. They often refuse to engage and the have half decent archers. So it's best not to fight them in open ground pitch battles if you can avoid it.

**lolIsuck** · January 27, 2012, 05:37 PM

Why all the hate people? Here, have a bit of Legio to spread the love

**Trailhog250** · January 27, 2012, 09:55 PM

if your using the SAUS submod you will get Dale cavalry periodically that can only be re-trained and they help a lot. Otherwise I use Dwarven Miners to chase them.