[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

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Originally posted by Wauthan:
Atlantean infantry is pretty durable, but expensive in resources, so quickly add tritons and summons to the main force. Shamblers are too expensive and hungry to use in large numbers, but mixing them into the main force gives you a little extra punch against heavy critters.

From the combat simulator, it seems that Shamblers are totally worthless. A War Shambler generally loses to 2 normal infantry, even really weak ones - the 3 resource Atlantian infantry, triton guards, independant 5-resource infantry, etc. Plain shamblers do even worse. I would not recommend shamblers, and only War Shamblers versus very heavy armor. They do as well against Ulm heavy infantry as against indy light infantry.

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IMO they are useful primarily against heavy armor and size 3 tramplers (being size 3 themselves they cannot be trampled by minotaurs, shambler thralls, etc.) They might be good against size 4 tramplers too - they would take relatively little damage for high fatigue cost to the size 4 trampler (since both damage and fatigue cost are based on the size difference).

Also, 1 war shambler vs 2 infantry isn't an accurate simulation - because even if there are 50 war shamblers and 100 infantry, the actual line of battle will have something like 20 war shamblers vs 30 infantry. War shamblers get relatively more punch into your frontline.