Saurus Warriors or Temple Guards?

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I recently played as the Last Defenders faction, and even though I had quite a large and strong army (including 5 Temple Guards), they got completely wrecked in the Quest Battle. Are the Saurus Warriors/Spears better?

[Hannibal The Snowman]

Temble Guards are in my opinion straight upgrades. The most important thing is they don't rampage like Saurus Warriors do.
[EDIT] They also look cooler.

[Velimirius]

Guards all the wai :)

[Zabi]

Saurus have a bit more melee attack and damage but they don't have armor piercing, have a change of going into rampage (you lose control) and they don't have charge defence (unless you are using the spearmens).

Temple guard have charge defense, armor piercing and are armored and shielded.
They will not go into a rampage, so you never lose control, and so far I have not seing a unit of them routing even with just 7 units remaining. They also have more hit points if I recall correclly.

I would say that depend of the bonus of your lord. As Mazdamundi I use temple guards for the reduced unkeep (each unit of temple guard in his army is consting me 53 gold per turn, at the same time a Saurus would cost me over 180).

By the way, unless you are fighting Skavens, Saurus and temple guards units are not really there to win the battle for you, they are there to hold the lines while your monsters destroy the enemy

[VanHoven]

The one against the high elf mages, the hand of the gods one? was the hardest quest battle so far for me, too. i would suggest kroxigors :=) temple guards arnt that much better than sarus warriors with shields statswise though. little less dmg overall, 10 more armorpiercing damage and a small bonus vs large and 30 more armor.

with the right research and hero skills saurus warriors have even higher melee attack and defense

and yeah, kroxigors and various dinosaurs for the quest battle.

[Gryphhz]

Anyone know if temple guards attack slower due to being halberd inf

[Intertriarriiae]

They do actually but not by much. Saurus warriors attack with an interval of 3.7 while temple guard attack with an interval of 4. Saurus spears are 4.1.

[Gryphhz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Intertriarriiae:

They do actually but not by much. Saurus warriors attack with an interval of 3.7 while temple guard attack with an interval of 4. Saurus spears are 4.1.

Where did you get these numbers, appreciate the answer btw.

[Intertriarriiae]

I use the pack file manager, the tool most mods are created with. With it you have acces to all data in the normal game. For example I can open up the melee_weapons_tables and it will show me all stats for every melee weapon, including melee_attack_interval

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Thanks to all of you!