Giant Slayer Spam?

[PorkNotBeef]

I've noticed, lately, that any time I take the fight to the dwarfs, they have this stupid habit of spamming nothing but Giant Slayers. They have all sorts of military buildings at their disposal yet all they do is spam the giant slayers which is the most annoying f**king thing to ever put up with mainly because auto-resolving would mean I get completely wiped out, even with advantageous units.

Is anyone else experiencing this???
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[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

The AI will spam the strongest autoresolve troops available for recruitment. Welcome to WAAAGH!ammer.

[JODEGAFUN]

Such an army is actually annoing as hell, because you need to kill every execpt the lord. And they are faster than normal infantery, and artillery does have little effect as the moral dmg does not work, and he plays Empire, that means you will have artillery and cav shock to use, but aiganst them it is useless.

[Sir uP]

Any skirmishes or ranged units in general will punish them soooo hard. Let them drain their ammo on skirm mode while the rest of your army chills until they are all peppered and exhausted.

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Sir ♥♥♥♥♥foot:

Any skirmishes or ranged units in general will punish them soooo hard. Let them drain their ammo on skirm mode while the rest of your army chills until they are all peppered and exhausted.

Outriders, that is the best option Empire has, actually aiganst this fools you can use pistoliers, they have no armor and aiganst low/no armor pistoliers are even better as they cost less. Empire infantery is to slow to stand on range, so FCM, Handgunner ore Crossbow does not work here, but all mounted skirmishers will kill them at least if you play yourself.

[Wyvern]

Another option is a steam tank+horde of grenade outriders. Obviously the stank cant hold particularly well, buuut if you micro it the stunties basically cant get a hit in and will be trying to blob up on it the whole time, at which point you can bombard them into oblivion.

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Wyvern:

Another option is a steam tank+horde of grenade outriders. Obviously the stank cant hold particularly well, buuut if you micro it the stunties basically cant get a hit in and will be trying to blob up on it the whole time, at which point you can bombard them into oblivion.

Maybe a lord on foot with high ward+res could make a blob better if you use a heal wiz on pegasus to keep him alive. The steamtank will not hold for long i fear as it goes aiganst massive ap+large bonus.

[Chrenergros]

Use grimgor. That stack will be his dinner.

Seriously, when i find a spam of a single unit, if that unit isn't the vampire coast colossus, i usually recruit a counter army. In this case u can go full pistolers, taking some greatswords in reserve just to clean who remains alive when u go out of ammo. A foot lord and/or hero with good meele stats could do the trick too, u need high MD and WD to kill them fast.

[Uugly]

Dwarf Doom tides are back. Annoying than the Greenskin. At least Black Orcs flee. Giant Slayer fight to the end.

[arc361]

Its so annoying when you are trying to siege and it gives the enemy a extreme amount of auto resolve power, then you go into the battle and you overpower them so much that it feels like a waste of time.

[river]

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

The AI will spam the strongest autoresolve troops available for recruitment. Welcome to WAAAGH!ammer.

That's not what the overhaul patch portrayed. But its happening a lot. But it also said that its a work in progress basically tweaking the AI and autoresolve mechanics. It's not final if it isn't up to par.

And yeah cut unarmored damage dealers down with ranged kiting and pound them with arty. Just tie them up in blobs with expendable units so you can keep shredding them with ranged. Then send in a couple heavy hitters to deal damage and tank so their health, vigour, and will is lost. Focus fire to break the first units that are most important, and then moving on to the next as each breaks. Enemies lose morale or something when total number of units goes down as well.

[Happy]

Spam Crossbows, lol.

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Happy:

Spam Crossbows, lol.

useless as slayers are to fast.

[an entire Roman legion]

Originally posted by JODEGAFUN:

Originally posted by Happy:

Spam Crossbows, lol.

useless as slayers are to fast.

"for a dwarf"

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by Albob:

Originally posted by JODEGAFUN:

useless as slayers are to fast.

"for a dwarf"

Theyre fast by any infantry standard. 40 speed isn't the highest out there, but its far better than like 80%+ of the infantry in the game.

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Wyvern:

Originally posted by Albob:

"for a dwarf"

Theyre fast by any infantry standard. 40 speed isn't the highest out there, but its far better than like 80%+ of the infantry in the game.

Commanded by Ugrimm with full buff they reach around 50, they are formidable to crush most rotting infantery total, even better than cav as they kill and not rangdoll them away.