Wild Riders best unit of the Wood Elves

[lucibuis]

Playing as Orion, first 50 turns or so, the original wild rider unit is still the one who makes the most kills in every battle, average 100... deepwood scouts and other infantry are very bad, usually 0 to 10 kills, orion and some of the archers make the rest of the casualties.

Am I playing them, correctly? Still don't have access to the best units so I'm not sure, but the eagle riders are horrible, they are usually routed by ungor archers, so pathetic, I can't send them alone anywhere

[Zebedee]

I use eagle riders as melee over bows. They are better used like that if you mean you've been trying to archery duel with them.

When playing with Orion on campaign, I tend to build leader skills towards battlefield buffing. Wild Riders rack up the kllls, but it's normally my war dancers doing the heavy lifting otherwise.

[StarofTanuki]

Wardancer with spear i thought .

[Daryl]

Elves are sadly quite squishy
and come in few numbers
you're essentially doing 300 vs 3000 undead
kind of fights

which means that you have to play smart
quite often your heroes are best used to "snipe" their lords and heroes off to shatter morale.

[Shandor]

Yeah the Wild Riders are insane. They are one of the best units in general. I would not say THE best unit. But they are in the top 10. Fast Bursting killingmachines. And if you buff them with your Lord skills or Spells they are unstopable.

Besides the full Flying Army i have Wild Riders in every Army i build. The Standard build is 5-6 Archers, 5-6 Wild Rider Thats the core. And i build the rest around that.

[Shandor]

Originally posted by Daryl:

Elves are sadly quite squishy
and come in few numbers
you're essentially doing 300 vs 3000 undead
kind of fights

which means that you have to play smart
quite often your heroes are best used to "snipe" their lords and heroes off to shatter morale.

Its true a unit is usualy smaller then a unit of another faction. But its very easy to make some Money so you can just attack with 2 Armies against 1. :-)

[lucibuis]

i noticed they're not so squishy, i can leave them in melee against archers and that cygor thing until they rout (well the cygor doesn't but until I send help)