WhiteOfKnight
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OK guys, I have read a few threads but I am hoping to have responses more tailored to my specific questions, however un original they may be, and again, I really do appreciate all the advice guys, it makes a world of difference.
So I am a day away from medieval age and I do A LOT of looting and could care less about medals and feel like I will feel that way for a long time until I use my medal count to hide me from looters. Anyways, from advice taken, I use a 3:1 ratio as in one Archer to every three foot soldiers...now it seemed at first I have had enormous amounts of luck with that. I also don't experiment much with cavalry as I hate, like despise, a 65 count troop load and one stupid horse taking up six.
Well after a while, I just kept getting Molly whopped and I just figured my attack strategy was bad and I casually read a post about how brits are so overpowered from there ranged attackers with their +1 range. Well, for kicks I decided to try an all Archer unique, I mean it couldn't be to bad, after all, I am Chinese and my unique unit is an archer firing twice as fast....AND WHAM BAM, THANK YOU MA'AM, my problems are solved. I think this ever elusive play style people talk about has been figured out.
So. Now this immediately turns from a troop strategy to a nation change. At this very moment I am so close to going British. If they are as hard to be defeated as most people say, then hands down, it's the brits I'm choosing. But what I'm wondering is, what is more significant, 40% more damage a Korean Archer offers, the twice as fast as a Chinese Archer offers, or the +1range a British Archer offers, I figure combined with 15% increased loot, British are an easy choice, as I am already killing stuff plenty fast, but the ability to be farther from it, seem the Better route. So hopefully this won't be considered a repost, but it kind of is I suppose, but truly which unique Archer is better
But before British was on my mind, I was seconds away from crowning to MA now and switching to German. Someone had made them sound amazing. But then I started to look at it, it's only five seconds off a rally tine, which doesn't seem to significant to me. And the unique unit, a foot soldier, I have been told, becomes virtually useless later in the game. And with my new love being ranged units, it just seems senseless to take a nation with a unique unit being a foot soldier's. But what I'm wondering is, if I can keep my fury going and give my archers an extra 15% damage, maybe I will be better off anyhow if the time comes for me to use different troop combos.
And now insert romans, would sheer numbers alone be better than anything else, would six or seven or eight archers be better than any of the other nations upgrades to archers..?
I'm also curious that when you guys refer to mortars? Is that just an upgraded catapult from the earlier ages? Because I read that's the only thing with enough range to reach British archers. Well, I'm already having to navigate around them with my Chinese archers. And if the catapult is, in fact, an underdeveloped mortar still capable of reaching British archers than that information could practically eliminate them as I might as well just go German because I get the 15% more damage and I could rush the catapult from farther away.
I have said that I don't care what nation I take, as long as it will serve me well in the later stages of the game, well that is dumb. I have been in the classical age for a while now, which means I will be in the medieval age and then gunpowder age for even longer periods of time and I image the Archer becoming ten times more fun with the advent of guns. So I want to choose the nation offering me the most fun for these next to ages.
So guys, I'm sorry if this looks like a...what nation to choose....in disguise, but this mass Archer attack has really got me excited, and excited usually leads to a million questions. And honestly guys, all help and advice is truly, truly helpful and I am very grateful for anyone who takes the time to offer it.
-Tyr'S Son
So I am a day away from medieval age and I do A LOT of looting and could care less about medals and feel like I will feel that way for a long time until I use my medal count to hide me from looters. Anyways, from advice taken, I use a 3:1 ratio as in one Archer to every three foot soldiers...now it seemed at first I have had enormous amounts of luck with that. I also don't experiment much with cavalry as I hate, like despise, a 65 count troop load and one stupid horse taking up six.
Well after a while, I just kept getting Molly whopped and I just figured my attack strategy was bad and I casually read a post about how brits are so overpowered from there ranged attackers with their +1 range. Well, for kicks I decided to try an all Archer unique, I mean it couldn't be to bad, after all, I am Chinese and my unique unit is an archer firing twice as fast....AND WHAM BAM, THANK YOU MA'AM, my problems are solved. I think this ever elusive play style people talk about has been figured out.
So. Now this immediately turns from a troop strategy to a nation change. At this very moment I am so close to going British. If they are as hard to be defeated as most people say, then hands down, it's the brits I'm choosing. But what I'm wondering is, what is more significant, 40% more damage a Korean Archer offers, the twice as fast as a Chinese Archer offers, or the +1range a British Archer offers, I figure combined with 15% increased loot, British are an easy choice, as I am already killing stuff plenty fast, but the ability to be farther from it, seem the Better route. So hopefully this won't be considered a repost, but it kind of is I suppose, but truly which unique Archer is better
But before British was on my mind, I was seconds away from crowning to MA now and switching to German. Someone had made them sound amazing. But then I started to look at it, it's only five seconds off a rally tine, which doesn't seem to significant to me. And the unique unit, a foot soldier, I have been told, becomes virtually useless later in the game. And with my new love being ranged units, it just seems senseless to take a nation with a unique unit being a foot soldier's. But what I'm wondering is, if I can keep my fury going and give my archers an extra 15% damage, maybe I will be better off anyhow if the time comes for me to use different troop combos.
And now insert romans, would sheer numbers alone be better than anything else, would six or seven or eight archers be better than any of the other nations upgrades to archers..?
I'm also curious that when you guys refer to mortars? Is that just an upgraded catapult from the earlier ages? Because I read that's the only thing with enough range to reach British archers. Well, I'm already having to navigate around them with my Chinese archers. And if the catapult is, in fact, an underdeveloped mortar still capable of reaching British archers than that information could practically eliminate them as I might as well just go German because I get the 15% more damage and I could rush the catapult from farther away.
I have said that I don't care what nation I take, as long as it will serve me well in the later stages of the game, well that is dumb. I have been in the classical age for a while now, which means I will be in the medieval age and then gunpowder age for even longer periods of time and I image the Archer becoming ten times more fun with the advent of guns. So I want to choose the nation offering me the most fun for these next to ages.
So guys, I'm sorry if this looks like a...what nation to choose....in disguise, but this mass Archer attack has really got me excited, and excited usually leads to a million questions. And honestly guys, all help and advice is truly, truly helpful and I am very grateful for anyone who takes the time to offer it.
-Tyr'S Son