Arty units per army

[Staber13857]

What is the right number of arty untis to have in an army before they hurt you more than help you? My guess is about 3 but I sometimes feel like just 2 is better.

[Zoie Shales]

Depends on the artilery, a good number is 1-3, some armies can have more. Its a balance between the units, too much artillery and the surviveing enemies will have marched forward enough between volleys to dismantle them.

[Silver]

Depends on the faction and also on your other units. With Empire, you need a 'hammer' - this can be greatswords or knights for mid-tier infantry, demigryphs later on, or a few well-placed artillery pieces. I also find I replace one or two missile infantry with helblasters later on, just for the morale shock value before a charge hits home. This can all lead to, in my latest Empire game, to my having 4 or even 5 artillery pieces per stack, usually two or three cannon and one or two helblasters. You can do similar with Dwarves, though I'd probably go just cannon and let the great weapon troops handle being the army hammer.

[VhagarTheLastOne]

While I was playing Empire, I had 4 sometimes and they were extremely effective. If you replace Archery Units with Siege Weapons it doesnt hurt you, just the stack is more expensive.

[ChibiFenrir]

I would say max 3 ever never more then 3. 1 or 2 is perfered. and don't replace archer units with arty archer units are much more effective at killing units. also mostly stay away from the higher teir arty units most of them are less effective. like with dwarfs grude thrower is thier best arty unit. empire either mortar or hellstorm. mortar is better at killing but hellstorm good for the disrupt and fodder/lower teir armies

[drazan]

Originally posted by LittleFenrir:

I would say max 3 ever never more then 3. 1 or 2 is perfered. and don't replace archer units with arty archer units are much more effective at killing units. also mostly stay away from the higher teir arty units most of them are less effective. like with dwarfs grude thrower is thier best arty unit. empire either mortar or hellstorm. mortar is better at killing but hellstorm good for the disrupt and fodder/lower teir armies

ehh what?

dwarf organ gun, a perfect shot (where all 4 cannons, hit all their balls) can pretty much kill off an entire unit, and send it routing straight away

even if only half of it hits, the damage done is so big, compared to a grudge thrower.


for empire, mortars are good but you want a grand cannon (or 2) aswell, they will do more damage then the mortars, because of bouncing cannon balls, and further range.
the advantage of the mortar is it's indirect fire

rockets, i'm not really fond of those, just for the fun i'll use the regiment of renown one against the vampires because they kill zombies fast.

[StarofTanuki]

19 for sure comfirmed by AI