Best army combination against hun armies?

[KoSeKu]

I recently discovered that all hun armies are the same, they have a lot of horseman and some footman. I wonder what is the best army combination against them?

[Aluminum Elite Master]

Well, it varies by faction, but some general stuff:

1) Slingers to kill their horse-archers (surprisingly effective)

2) Spearmen with good shields can tank horse-archer fire, then stand their ground against charges from the other mounted Huns.

3) If it's later on when you meet them, then anything that can guerilla deploy (especially guerilla cavalry) can be useful to take out their large onagers.

4) Berserkers and other lightly armored units you have need to be handled rather carefully, and they shouldn't make up too much of your army. The Huns have both excellent melee/ranged cavalry and rather good foot-bound archers. Both of those two things can be trouble to lightly armored melee infantry you have. For whatever non-spear, non-ranged infantry you have, it's going to be better to have heavy armor then a high attack rating or ability to scare units.

5) Whatever type of army composition you have, bear in mind that if you meet the Huns later on, once Attila is king, then you will face a lot of full stacks. Hence, use agents to stop stacks from reinforcing each other. Or, alternatively, prioritize Cunning and get several of your generals to be able to fight night battles for the same effect. Or, best of all, get both some high level agents and some high-cunning generals and divide and conquer like a boss.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Like I wrote above, to be really specific would require knowing what faction you are playing as.

[KoSeKu]

Thank you, very useful ^^