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daterxies 26 okt, 2013 @ 11:36
Countering horse archer armies?
I started a campaign as the selecuids.. but i am starting to get frustrated (my first time having difficulties since R2 came out)

i cant seem to counter horse archers of my surrounding enemies. My first army consisted of 50/50 axemen and steppe archers.. my axeman got totally slaughtered and eventually my archers too. Next army i was like F it im going all in with horse archers.. did that and it was all horse archers vs all horse archers and they still managed to win.

What can i do to defeat there armies of horse archers? i think im about 12 turns in and i captured 1 province so far but been trying to capture another one for the last 10 turns.
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Dash 26 okt, 2013 @ 11:55 
Bring melee cav and SMASH them to bloody quivering bits. Light cav is fast and usually tough enough to deal with mounted archers. = )
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rx7t3_gio 26 okt, 2013 @ 11:58 
Light cavalry is the best solution.
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Rabidnid 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:01 
Eastern spears. They have turbo boost so can usually run down most mounted. Otherwise any mid weight cavalry will do.
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Knox 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:08 
Those things are all good solutions, I use autoresolve ;)
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Tacticat 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:22 
you are supposed to get a defensive army. Go into defensive mode and set caltrops about 10 feet from the range archers would come into shoot

most likely, because the ai is so dumb, a lot of them will run full charge into it.. i do this all the time, it works.

i like to put units behind caltrops to get them to come to me.

anyway in roman times that was the tactic too-fortifiy--- the arrow towers and walls make amazing defense.
Senast ändrad av Tacticat; 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:23
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[*UNITY*]_ james 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:30 
Horse archers are actually not that bad. Ground archers are better (atleast as far as I know), and spear/hoplites/pikes are the perfect counter against anything cav-related.
Senast ändrad av [*UNITY*]_ james; 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:30
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BORO324 26 okt, 2013 @ 12:37 
Get slingers. Noob box with pikes or hoplites and put those slingers inside.
Sling has 150 reach while HA only has 125. Its enough to keep your spears safe.
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Rabidnid 26 okt, 2013 @ 15:00 
I'm sure Xenophon will be pleased to know that the formation used by his 10,000 is called a "noob box" these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)
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