What legendary difficulty pirate army composition have you found?

[The Coal Man]

Specifically the early game, when you arent drowning in booty. Im playing a legendary run with cylostra and was curious what compositions people have found that worked for them. So far ive been focusing artillery with a meat shield frontlne, which works but nothing I didnt already do on playthroughs with other races. Their units seem a bit speciallized so im sure there are more interesting strategies, im just having too much trouble at the moment surviving to really experiment with them. Anyone found a good/fun army makeup?

[Sir uP]

As many hand gunner mobs as you can get. Sprinkle in maybe 3 regular zombies since they are usefully better.

My first 20 turns have been just raising dead basic tar pits and trying to keep handgunners alive while sacing the rest of the meat shields.

Once you get more handgunners you start taking less losses.

Use your hero(s) and the specialty units you start with wisely and you dont need much else.

Depth guard and necroflex and noct get most of my kills. But ya all about undead gun lines and blocks spread out and cross firing.

(Didnt see legendary, I play VH/VH but cant imagine much of a difference...)

[Hurricane]

I beat legendary as direfin in 85 turns not even trying and just used depth guard.

my fully army comp below, i only used 1 army the full playthrough.

direfin
ghost paladin
haunter hero
3 halberd DG
8 DG
2 necro 1 ROR
1 cannon
bess
2 mortars

i specced to buff the DG and arty under the red line.

Direfins spells are okay the ship is hard to aim but when it works its nice, winds of death still miles better tho...

my main heroes were unkillable and just melted anything, the paladin is the best thing in the game lol hes super faster and AL, takes no damage due to all that physical res and you can just stack wardsave gear on him to make him truly OP.

[Sir uP]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

my fully army comp below, i only used 1 army the full playthrough.

direfin*
ghost paladin*
haunter hero
3 halberd DG
8 DG
2 necro 1 ROR
1 cannon
bess
2 mortars

This would seem to be the campaign army to go for (with * swapped depending the faction you're playing).

I guess you dont need gunlines with that much arty?

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Sir ♥♥♥♥♥foot:

Originally posted by Hurricane:

my fully army comp below, i only used 1 army the full playthrough.

direfin

• 
  ghost paladin
• 
  haunter hero
  3 halberd DG
  8 DG
  2 necro 1 ROR
  1 cannon
  bess
  2 mortars

This would seem to be the campaign army to go for (with

swapped depending the faction you're playing).

I guess you dont need gunlines with that much arty?

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No matter how good you use your gun lines the depth guard will outkill all of them, the depth gaurd do suck vrs tomb guard though unless youre direfin as they have magical attacks to bypass their physical res and just melt them.

Direfin is the strongest lord by far, her army buff along with the super OP hero make her unstoppable.

mortars are so strong, they work very well in sieges and when your DG is in battle they hit the enemy so easy and just wipe them, bess is great for this too and shes anti arty she wipes most arty in 3 shots.

Its a very powerful comp, you could drop the cannon for another necro or the ammo hero to refill bess.