What does a late-game Bretonnian army look like?

[pho_kko]

Title. They're up there definitely up there with my favorites, but I just don't know what I'm doing late-game when enemy armies have high-tier scary stuff. Bretonnia's unit variety is honestly kind of suffocating, it feels like I have too few units that need to cover a wide variety of roles whereas my neighbors have flexibility because of their larger roster.

The lack of strong missile units makes me think I should have cavalry charge their missiles, then help with the infantry, but my cavalry just get stuck in melee and get decimated before I can get another charge in.

Also would it be better to keep my LL's on foot instead of mounted just to avoid the bonus spears and the like get against large?

[grab these bandages]

19 Paladins+damsel\15+-3 royal pegasus + some paladins and damsel\15+-3 grail knights + some paladins and damsel stacks

[Xhal]

You have 2 potential doomstacks with Bret.

1 lord
1 life damsel for replenishment and life magic healing
18 royal hippogryph knights

you can put a paladin in there too if you want for extra xp, you can get so many paladins with bret.

1 lord
1 life damsel
18 paladins

Both stacks are really strong, have tons of healing, good aoe damage with life magic, all fly except the damsel, you need 1 ground unit, the damsel on a unicorn is really fast, I usualy also give them a banner of swifness.

EDIT I should also mention that for the paladin doomstack, you absolutely need your lord on a hippogryph for siege attacker, if you want to get a caster damsel lord, you would need to get 1 unit with siege attacker in that army, possibly 1 royal hippogryph.

[pho_kko]

Haven't tried damsels too much, will definitely look into them, thanks.

[yuzhonglu]

18 paladins and a life mage hero.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Kemmler and 19 skeleton warriors

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

Kemmler and 19 skeleton warriors

One stack to Rule them all.

[VoiD]

Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUl9_5kK9ts

[Ashley]

You know the movie "Wrong Turn" that has the inbred hillbilly, mutant cannibals? It's looks like them except alot physically weaker and deformed.

[Lady MacBeth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctC04nOwTw

[Ashley]

Originally posted by Ming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctC04nOwTw

Yes it looks like this.

[UnluckyNoob]

You have strong missile units: trebuchets. So you should destroy archers/infantry/artillery using your ranged superiority. Your knights should run around enemies and destroy units which are out of infantry blob. Aim your trebuchets to attack that blob if you have enough micro or you play low difficulty and can pause.

When your lord is strong enough you may just group him with 3 pals (4 units may be healed at once) and right click enemy lord/singles/monster/cav. AI infantry will blob even more and your artillery/life mage will destroy them.

If you are good at micro you may add couple hippogryph knights. They can fly and may be healed easily. Do not use too much of them because they are very cost inefficient.

If for some reasons you want melee units ally a dwarf.

1 poison archer may be good to debuff strong legendary lords.

Your best cav in game 3 is questing knights. You may play Repanse to buff them even more.

Do not dismount your lords. They are strongest melee lords in the game and may kill half of AI army on their own, especially during sieges. And you may always destroy any spears with your life mage.

This is lategame army from game 2:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2656814071
As you can see in game 2 your knights can't replenish on most territory so knights of the realm was better than questing knights because of 1-turn global recruitment. In game 3 you should use questing knights instead.

[Ashardalon]

horsies!

[A.Pot]

I personally prefer to specialize depending on the army. Legendary Lords get armies depending on what bonuses they provide. Generic Lords and heroes get either all peasant or all knight armies so you can get those traits like Lowborn, Nobleman and Saviour.

[KTVindicare]

Originally posted by phokko:

Haven't tried damsels too much, will definitely look into them, thanks.

have you not been using Magic in this game? It's one of the most powerful tools you can have in your arsenal. Bretonnia has access to the Lore of Life which is one of the best lores of magic in the whole game, and the Lore of Heavens which is really good too.

Between providing Magic and Replenishment there should be a Damsel in every single one of your armies. You could theoretically have 1 Damsel for every settlement you own because they only take a level 3 Grail Shrine to recruit and up their capacity.

[Zeek]

Originally posted by Achungus Amongus:

Originally posted by Ming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctC04nOwTw

Yes it looks like this.

And those are the educated brettonians.