Beware! Flemish rebel pikemen

**FEARLESS** · November 23, 2006, 04:41 AM

Usual thing, rebel army wants sorting out. Sent in just sufficient troops with yeoman archers. Arrows raining down on these poor souls.................but hey what's this the 3 units of rebel flemish pikeman just keep coming. WOW! that was great!! I truly had a fight on my hands and won it by the skin of my teeth. Flemish rebel pikemen don't have the passive bug BEWARE!! or was it just a fluke?

**Markas** · November 23, 2006, 05:21 AM

I tried to blitz Antwerp in the opening turns as HRE with just enough troops for a chance of victory but it took three seperate attempts and I became pathologically fixated on taking it as the milanese siezed florence. Probably best not to get obsessive like that...

**ZiRo** · November 23, 2006, 05:35 AM

My army runs on Mercenary Pikemen

I sware my entire Scottish armed forces are 80% Mercenary. Might have helped me capture a few places.. Say.. York to Venice.

**Gaius Julius** · November 23, 2006, 06:09 AM

They're tough as crap. My entire English army routed from Antwerp led by Henry. I need to retool and try tot ake it again. Hopefully nobody else decides to besiege it, considering I've worn down the enemy.

**Achilleus** · November 23, 2006, 06:34 AM

Be quick Gaius, in my game, the French did exactly that!

**Petavian Belgae** · November 23, 2006, 06:53 AM

that is the fun.Always look out for others armies sieging enemy cities.
Most of the time they need 2 attempts to take their objectives.
So sneek in after the first attemt and attack an already weackend enemy.
Hapened 2 times playing as the spanish, while the portugees trying to capture a city.
Great

**ruberkaiser** · November 23, 2006, 07:44 AM

I lead a few armies dominated by mailed knights (about 6 of them to 4 other unit types) around the place during the early game, and when I come up against a tough seige where i'd normally need the infantry, i use attrition seiges to force the enemy to sally out where I can flood the enemie's weak points.

I was very worried when I saw the Flemish Pikmen sally out when, with my french army, i used this strategy on antwerp. Luckily I got my witts back and charged the formation while it was still sallying out. I would have probably snapped if my 8 turns (16 years!) of seige had have been wasted by a wall of flemish pikemen.