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Field of Glory II
- Thread starter Sranchammer
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New DLC
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Everyone get this and come play, it's a good online game that doesn't require much time to enjoy. Very smooth and quick experience playing and exchanging turns, all automated by the system with no need to email back and forth.
Lacrymas
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I tried it and I kinda like it. I didn't understand anything from the tutorial, lol, so I got owned by the AI in a quick battle. My force was terrible, though, my melee units couldn't hold a candle to their Hastati and I had too many javelins.
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If you expect skirmishers to take Roman infantry 1-to-1, then yes.
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Come play online and find out. The AI is essentially brain dead.
razvedchiki
Magister
skirmishers are used like they were in them ancient times, to skirmish as the armies formed up and then back away as the main clash occured. you can route heavy infantry with them but it requires 3-4 units continually launching missiles for several turns.
Lacrymas
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As far as I've understood it, you don't go after heavy infantry with skirmishers, you go for the flanks. Since skirmishers evade the vast majority of (frontal?) attacks, you have nothing to lose.
razvedchiki
Magister
its best to put your skirmishers at 2 square range in front of your main battle line, and have a gap of 1 square behind the main battle line. this way its almost quaranteed that they will evade heavier infantry and pass through your line to use them later.
Axioms
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A lot of things depend on the difficulty but I usually use skirmishers to knock as many medium infantry down to yellow or even red as possible. Works pretty well. Also of course you want to wipe the enemy skirmishers. Typically load majority of my skirmishers on one side, rout the enemy light units and then harass down the medium infantry and/or any medium/heavy cav. I rarely do the battleline thing because you just can't focus fire hard enough that way. Unless you yellow something it really isn't a good use of skirmishers. Slingers and archers are of course great on hills since you can focus fire harder and deal a bit more damage.
L'ennui
Magister
Just annihilated a big Roman army as the Parthians. Archers, slingers and skirmishers are not *decisive*, but when you give them horses (mobility) they can cause significant attrition and disorganize the enemy enough for the big hammer blow.
And cataphracts are one of the biggest, hammeriest blow you can land in the flanks of a legionary trying to avoid being pin-cushioned by bazillions of arrows. Feels good mang.
Axioms
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Roman armies are super OP but so are the armies of all the "major" factions. Well maybe there are two tiers of "major" factions and the Romans are in the top one. The player of course elevates any army they use by at least a tier. So minor factions can fight at tier 2 major and win and tier 2 majors can fight at tier 1 and win. Some Romans are better than others of course.
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Just pick whichever one contains the army lists that interest you. I don't have a high opinion of the AI, the campaign mode, or the preset battles, but multi-player is comfy and at least one person needs to have the dlc to create the room with the army of choice.
Vladimir
Literate
sorry for necromancy, but as a person that put many hours into this game
I think its beauty lies, apart from multiplayer, in preset battles with non-standard conditions. And random campaigns are better than preset campaigns, lol
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