Best Army Composition for Romance Mode

[WooksterRu]

Considering their gonna get wrecked by the heroes 9/10 what would be the best cannon fodder mix-up. Although i tend to find Cav useless in romance mode as the AI tends to field mostly Pikes and Spears.

[Emopanther]

? I don't normally have problems with enemy generals in romance, i just send my own to harass/duel them and normally they win. My units themselves though, atleast in my main army, are usually a high enough level to beat them down fairly well.. unless it's Lu Bu.. the bastard. But normally i just have 6 ranged, 6 spears as my main wall, and the rest is either all Assault units or a mix with cavalry.

[Nylan]

Depends on avalaible generals and who likes who for me. If i can my dream team is six shielded assault guys, 4 archers and two trebs under a strategist, then 4 spear/polearm guys and two cav of some sort.

[Jalomies]

One answer to answer them all, you dont need army in romance mode. Then again thanks for undermining the real Total war fanbase by supporting Total Fairytale in first place

[Revolter]

i tend to get two stone throwers and 4 ranged the rest what ever i fancy

pretty much the stone thrower deal so much damage i might look at getting 6 of them
i think that will be my new shock and awe tactic
be pretty cool dropping 6 of them on a unit or clump of units

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Revolter:

i tend to get two stone throwers and 4 ranged the rest what ever i fancy

pretty much the stone thrower deal so much damage i might look at getting 6 of them
i think that will be my new shock and awe tactic
be pretty cool dropping 6 of them on a unit or clump of units

By stone thrower u mean trebs?? Trebs are broken in this game lol... 3 is probs enough though best have some xbows too. But yeah im thinking about carrying a 2nd army around with just 3 strats and 18 trebs lol... rest army mixed shield spear and xbows

[Elite665]

can you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stop saying heroes are OP cause they are not 2 units of heavy spears can kill any hero except a red one

[pRaX]

Spear Guards + Mass of Archers + Couple Red Cav > Rest.

And ofc having a Hero with high charge (190+) just deletes alot of units almost instantly.

Sad but true....

[pin]

Originally posted by Omega665:

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Wrong... please be quiet...

i will actually post a vid of it

Hero cycle charge OP. Learn to use it then come back to us.
[edit] added cycle

[Wraith]

lol have your units also charge the enemy General. Yeah theyll get 200 or so kills but thats really only a coupel of units and that is only the mightiest of generals. I win all the tiem in siege battles agaisnt armies with 2-3 generals . Have arrow towers focus them, if your generals are weaker, dont duel and use units+ all your generals to focus one of them. Its not that hard.

[381]

Get tribechues the sieges machines and fire oil one stacks of siege can take up to 200+ people late game earth archers they deadly they can easly take 300+ per battle

[Wraith]

As for Army Composition, As kong rong, his crossbows make the game laughably easy. As Ma Tong, I have 6 shock cavalry and 2 melee cavalry with the rest being sabre militia to hold a line. Fun battles. As Sun Jian, I have a balanced army with crossbows, shock cav and mercenary axes to hold the line. I dont even bother with cavalry with Kong Rong as his cross bows only run out of ammo after killing 350-400+ units. And I dont bother with ranged as one of the cavalry focused factions. Braced spears will DECIMATE your cavalry however so you ALWAYS need infantry.

[Kaygee]

So my mid game army playing as the Dong is kinda broken. I have a Lvl 9 Lubu commanding 6 light archers, 1 green general with 6 heavy ji inf, and Daochian with 6 treb, all have guerilla deployment. Literally carry the "come at me bro" mentality regardless of the battle setting

[Karsk]

So I am a long time fan of the series going back to medieval 1. My initial instinct is to play Records and that is what I have been doing.

Originally posted by Jalomies:

One answer to answer them all, you dont need army in romance mode. Then again thanks for undermining the real Total war fanbase by supporting Total Fairytale in first place

Is Romance worth it for someone like me? I played Warhamemr a lot but thats bc I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love the setting and lore

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Steve Spaghetti, The Meme Thief:

So I am a long time fan of the series going back to medieval 1. My initial instinct is to play Records and that is what I have been doing.

Originally posted by Jalomies:

One answer to answer them all, you dont need army in romance mode. Then again thanks for undermining the real Total war fanbase by supporting Total Fairytale in first place

Is Romance worth it for someone like me? I played Warhamemr a lot but thats bc I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love the setting and lore

Well romance is the game... shame the dueling and heros are dumb and ruin it. Should of been like dynasty warriors style... kills empower the heroes and then they get super nukes. That would actually be fun. But no we get 5 animation duels that take up to 20 mins...

[VoiD]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Originally posted by Omega665:

can you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stop saying heroes are OP cause they are not 2 units of heavy spears can kill any hero except a red one

Wrong... please be quiet...

Actually you're wrong, even militia spears can take care of heroes, I've done it on legendary livestreaming on my channel just this week, a garrison of 1 captain and 6 units against 1 half dead army with 2 heroes and another half dead army with 3 more, killed them all with my 2 militia spears, took care of the rest of their armies with archers and 2 melee cav hammer and anvil basics.

it's not hard at all, in fact I actually am using 9 heroes with my main yellow turban armies (free upkeep) by using 2 ♥♥♥♥ peasant armies (6 heroes) and one free army without any other units, are they powerful? Yeah, but not because of their stats, yellow turbans have OP buffs for their other units, even 30 upkeep peasants can fight to the death, I recon this army would be far more powerful if my 9 single heroes getting 100~200 kills at most could keep up with my regular cav units that often get 600~1k kills by rear charging enemies if they had a full bodyguard unit.

Of course the only, single exception to the rule would be Lu Bu as he can also get over 1k kills by spamming his active skill every 30s (less with a strategist)