Cathay Army composition

[hkv34]

Hi Guys can you people suggest effective Army Composition for Magestraite and shugengan lord im kinda new to this game a little help will be aprieciated

[Enelith]

Nowadays, people just want things to be given to them on a plate, instead of learning by themselves first...

It's good you're a new player,
it's bad you're not trying to understand how they work first and just relay on random people advices.

(And tbh, you're better looking for those kind of informations on YT or else than on Steam with all the obviously-experts at this game)

[CrUsHeR]

Quick early game army:

1x Lord (any)
1x Alchemist
1x Astromancer

1x Celestial Lion
2x Onyx Crowmen
4x Jade Warriors
2x Jade Halberds
6x Jade Crossbows

So these are 18 units, fill with whatever you prefer. Jade / Jet Lion, more infantry, artillery, sky lantern, or the new Gate Keeper hero.

The Celestial Lion is a cheap siege attacker, also super useful flying unit with a debuff. Working in tandem with 1-2 Crowmen units, can generally replace Cavalry so you can skip that building line for most of the early game.

And of course the unit counts are all variable. Like having 4 archer units is mostly sufficent if you know what you're doing, example when you add Fire Rain Rocket batteries.

Peasant units are also good if you're short on money. You should be able to recruit them at gold rank with that one Control building in a province. So you could take 2x peasant archers and 2x jade crossbows, and so on.

[Ashardalon]

line of spearmen
line of crossbows behind that
line of snipers behind that
line of cannons behind that
maybe some cav or something big to counter cav

[Egro]

Just Celestial Dragon X-bow, Celestial Dragon Guard, logma and Fire Rain Rocket dumb stack. Focus on economy, use huge armies of peasant for cheap rapid expansion Early game then steamroll late game with a couple of dumb armies. That pretty much sum up the Cathay experience...

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by CrUsHeR:

Quick early game army:

1x Lord (any)
1x Alchemist
1x Astromancer

1x Celestial Lion
2x Onyx Crowmen
4x Jade Warriors
2x Jade Halberds
6x Jade Crossbows

So these are 18 units, fill with whatever you prefer. Jade / Jet Lion, more infantry, artillery, sky lantern, or the new Gate Keeper hero.

The Celestial Lion is a cheap siege attacker, also super useful flying unit with a debuff. Working in tandem with 1-2 Crowmen units, can generally replace Cavalry so you can skip that building line for most of the early game.

And of course the unit counts are all variable. Like having 4 archer units is mostly sufficent if you know what you're doing, example when you add Fire Rain Rocket batteries.

Peasant units are also good if you're short on money. You should be able to recruit them at gold rank with that one Control building in a province. So you could take 2x peasant archers and 2x jade crossbows, and so on.

Maybe change the astromancer for a gate keeper (if you have access to it with the dlc), those guys buff all basic jade warrior types to heavens. You can even take one warrior out to add two of them.

[Alejandro]

If you don't have 3-4 Fire Rain Rocket batteries in your army you're doing it wrong.
Those things make everything easier.

[LKAI]

Sky junk, go first person, fire down the lines.