Advice for Repanse de Lyonesse?

[Ragnarok]

Watched the Noob's Guide video on her, suddenly struck by an urge to DEUS VULT my way to victory. However, I'm typically an Empire/Dwarf player. I'm smart enough to realize my typical tactics of 'watch gun line turn enemy army into corpses' doesn't quite work when you lack guns or anything beyond peasant hordes and angry murdery feudal overlords.
So. Advice on tactics, army comp over the course of the game, and other such things would be welcome.

[A.Pot]

You might want to do a bunch of custom battles first and practice with Shock Cavalry. If you want to expand quickly and grab territories, then using cavalry will be just fine, if you are willing to sit around and wait, try other things like infantry, archers or artillery.

But seriously though, practice with Shock Cavalry because Bretonnia is a cavalry focused faction despite what certain individuals on this forum will say.

[zacharyb]

Early game you're going to be using a lot of Infantry units, mid game you're going to want to be using about half Infantry or less and half Cavalry or more and late game you want to be using almost all Cavalry, Blessed Trebuchets are still pretty good to keep though.

Bretonnia is about Micromanagement, if you just send your Cavalry in without any thought you're going to have a bad time. Shock Cavalry is meant to cycle charge and not meant to sit there and fight like a normal melee unit.

Of course you could also just do Trebuchet spam, but at that point you might as well just play as a more Artillery focused faction.

[Mack Yuu]

For early game, forget your red line to start with. Your killing power is in your trebuchet.

What you want to do with both Repanse and Henri is go down gold line a bit to tank them up. They're beastly on their own, but they'll still get worn down "out of the box" as it were, so a few extra points in MD/armor will go a long way.

From there, you have to run them out ahead of your army far enough that the AI doesn't aggro on your foot troops/cav, but close enough that your trebuchets can fire on them. Try to keep them close enough together so Henri's Guardian aura gives Repanse a little more defense. From there, ground fire your artillery danger close on Repanse/Henri, as they'll be surrounded by a pool of clumped up enemies. If you don't know how to ground fire, it's alt+right click, I believe.

Your army's only job from there is to handle everyone that gets by them. Mainly, to protect the trebuchets. Your trebs should be racking up 400-500 kills on Large unit sizes for these early fights.

As for your army, I'd just fill it out with Men-at-Arms for a while; or even just peasants and scrap the recruitment building for eco if you want.

You can also hire a Prophetess of Life to follow Repanse's army, but without a mount, she'll be susceptible to getting gooned if she tries to get close enough to heal them, so be careful with her and get her a mount ASAP.

Don't forget Vows and Troths on Lords/Paladins. You'll pretty much always take the same ones: Level Up 5x, Win a Desert Siege Battle, Kill Lord 5x. Only deviate from this if you see the victory condition.

Pro-tip: With sea encounters (the things you can move over for treasure), move over them in Forced March speed (Flank/Full Speed on sea). If it's just a buff, you'll get the buff. If it's something where you'd have to fight an army, a pop up will appear saying "Sea Location of Interest". That means there's a fight there. Remember that spot, and hit it when you want to do someone's second tier vow (Pledge of Manaan, I think it's called; win a battle at sea).

[yuzhonglu]

Repanse + 2 melee Lords + her paladin + Life Mage can solo Khemri.

Take Khemri before T10. Once that's done, mass trebuchets.

[funkmonster7]

Don't mass trebs................... Sure, do it when you're bored but honestly, I play Brets for the cavs not for the trebs. I'd play Skaven if I want to artillery-♥♥♥♥ somebody.

[Mack Yuu]

I'd also advise against mass trebs. I just use the starting one, and will often not recruit another unless a Lord needs Siege Attacker and that's faster than all their other options.

[Nord400]

Repanse, Henri, a life prophetess, and some lords and paladins thrown in( with gear and some leveling up) can murder whole armies especially early to mid game. Sieges as Repanse are hilarious in the sense because all you need is Repanse, Henri, your lords, heroes and healer...And some trebuchet. They will kill everything else. Some archers to help is always nice too.

[Ragnarok]

Just fought off some beastmen. It was my first 0-casualty battle ever. Just charged Repanse and Henri into there, let the trebuchet and peasant archers fire away merrily at the blob. It was hilarious.

[kekkuli]

Just aim for full cavalry army, makes life much easier. With enough flying cavalry sieges are VERY easy with those as well.

[funkmonster7]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

Just fought off some beastmen. It was my first 0-casualty battle ever. Just charged Repanse and Henri into there, let the trebuchet and peasant archers fire away merrily at the blob. It was hilarious.

Treb and archer spam will work, it's actually quite fun, but there are other factions better at doing the exact same thing.

If you're playing on Normal or Easy, just use cavs later on, nothing is more fun than watching your godlike cavs just crash into units and hold a line while your other cavs maneuver around and sandwich enemies to death. All while enemy artillery get shut down by your flying cavs. No other faction can do this.

Also, when enemies start fielding monsters and flyers, your trebs and archers will get massacred.

[max2k]

Get army firer buff conquer undeads ... after that you are large that you can conquere other smaller factions. After that finish ... I realy think Repanse should be an easy win with her amry buff and all the Tomb Kings around her.