Floris MOD which is the best TROOP?

[Dark Raven Shadows]

plz help

[luigiwhatif]

What type of troop are you looking for? Each faction has its own speciality.

[Dark Raven Shadows]

i am looking for infantry

[Marco]

Best troop is the war elephant

[Chikuwu]

war elephant with the manhunters. save from enemy parties, then train them from manhunters, to elephant riders. destroy utterly anything

[Stevenson Family]

Type matters a lot less than level.

If you have level 5 infantry and the enemy has lvl 2 it doesn't really matter what each type is, the lvl 5 one is going to destroy the lvl 2.

Rhodock are still my ranged unit because crossbows kick ass against armour. Knights I generally stick to Freelancers or Swadian and Infantry is a mix between Nord and Swadian.

Personally I like to have Swadian Jocks, Piquers and Nord Vigmandr's make up my infantry. Bit of everything in there, Two handed/Pikes/Kickass nords.

[The Vlach]

I personally would say nords. The floris mod tends to stick with the ame type of unit strength. For example nords have great melee, swadians have excellent cav, Vaegirs have good archers, Khaghit have great horse archers, Rhodok have good spears and the sarrinad have a mix of good archers and cav. But, from what i have read here, just go with elephants. Nothing beats elephants.

[Metro]

Problem is that slaver chiefs (the elephants) are extremely expensive so you aren't going to be able to afford large amounts of them.

[Dark Raven Shadows]

Guys i appreciate your comments but i would love to make an army that is easily trained. For example rhodoks got level 3 excellent marksmen so A) easily trained B)large number. From my experience large numbers of marksmen + retreat and attack strategy melts enemy armies. Any suggestions?

[luigiwhatif]

Well, generally the longer it takes to train a unit to its top level, the stronger that troop is. But if you need a lot of troops quickly you may want to go down paths that end at tier 6 or 5. Every faction has a few of them, and I also found Freelancer and female troops to be pretty effective for their level. But you should still work to develop a core group of tier 7 troops (and/or elephants) to spearhead your troops.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

the slaverchiefs combined with the freelancers and swordsisters make a good quickly trained and relatiely cheap(even slavechiefs are cheaper than most same tier cav) army that doesnt suffer from morale problems that faction troops do
other than that,the troops from the faction you are in are the best as your first town allows you to build a barracks,and along with the diplomacy trainer let you have a constant supply of tier 3+ troops on hand from your faction
a preist and a surgeon is probably a good add for most to for the +1 to leadership and surgory
also 10+manhunters give +1 to prison management

[Mr. Tea]

Swadian Cavalry is best especially when you run a cavalry only party because they're super strong dismounted too.

[Pirate Cat]

Bottom line of Swadians, the skirmishers, are useful if you want your archer wall to also be a competent infantry wall.

[Tuidjy]

The most cost efficient (as in useful early on, overpowered at high levels, easy to keep alive and tactically versatile) are the Khergit and Sarranid horse archers lines.

Sure, Swadian Baron Mineures are amazing at crushing anyone in the open field, and elephants are just as devastating if much slower. But those are expensive, bloom late, and die with normal use.

Horse archers destroy everything before it gets close. Dismount their horses at the bottom of the hill, make the archers hold the top, and watch the carnage.