[licker]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by licker:
I'll try a specific if you like...

C'tis (non Tomb theme)
20% LI (for the javalins)
40% Falchioneers or Elite Warriors (or both)
20% Swamp Gaurds
10% Longdead + Skeletons
10% Other (poison slingers, Serpents, Dancers)

OK that looks good. So this is what you feel would provice you a challenge to go up against?

Do you see this as an army you would meet at their castle? Or that it would show up coming at you? Since its all home units I take it that this is something for early in the game.

How large an army do you see this as being? This is an ongoing build order? When these max do you see them walking out and starting another one?

I take it for granted that this is supposed to be built in this configuration right from the start? Not cheap units first then fill in later with others (I think thats whats going on now)

So I brought up my Ctis game and bought 2 LI, 2 Falconeers and 2 Elite Guards, I didnt see swamp guards but I may have the wrong theme, and I bought 1 slinger. That worked. I ran low on resources long before money but that would allow me to buy some nice expensive mages to keep up on the need for the undead units.

It didnt look like very many troops though. Many cheap troops are usually what I would start with to get a cheap efficient patrol force. Maybe for a walking army. If I use the battle simulator map I could put in 20, 40, 10, 10 of all those troop types and test them in battle.

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Whether it would be challenging or not depends on many different things... In general I'd say it would be more challenging than an army composed of 80% LI and Militias though...

I wasn't real specific with the when or the wheres of that compesition. Ideally that would be an army that would be used later in the game with 80+ units I think. Initially you'd have to go with more like 70% LI and 30% 'other' probably the EWs and SGs. I didn't add any kind of logic to tweek the %s for the outside factors though, but ideally they %s would be tweeked depending on income/resource levels, gem income, mages...

I don't see patroling (to counter unrest from raised taxes) to be as useful in Dom2 so I'm not sure that I'd focus on patrols and high income early, over expansion to simply get more province, but that's a bit of a different question. I don't konw if the AI is built to up taxes and patrol or not, and I'd rather not complicate the issues at hand with that.

It would be interesting to run some tests with that basic army compostion and say a couple Sauromancers (or Marshmasters) with evocation 3 or 4 and Alteration 2. Use an LK and one other Infantry type comander. What you pit that army against... I dunno, maybe some combination of similarly gold/resource Ulm army (since that's the other nation that's been discussed).

I have to say though that as the game progresses those %s need to change, and probably heavilly. Especially if there is a good nature/death gem income to create armies with more summons. If that's the case then the poison slingers need to go up along with the poison immune units, while some amount of either blessable or heavy hitters (falchioneers and EWs) are kept around.