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Alneyan said:
I should be ashamed of having forgotten the psychological value of doing some sneaky attacks. It might be very, very fun to deal such a blow well behind the lines, especially if it looks as if you did it on purpose (luck might work just as well though). I will be remembering that one.
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This can be done by other means too
. A teleported in / cloud trapezed in Sc can do this too . Earlygame a timed call of wilds / winds attack on several provinces can work too because lots of players buy only 1 pd earlygame .
Later in the game Ghostriders is just awesome .
I am more a fan of conventional attacks though . If your stealthforce is detected by e.g. patrollers and beaten then the whole effort was mainly in vain . The problem there is imo that the bigger the stealth army is the more likely it is detected . Against a castling opponent you have to besiege then the fort anyways which gives him the chance to catch you even if he didn't detect you before .
For Pangenea though a stealth strategy might be really nice because they are extremely good there . Their pans / pandemoniacs are stealthy and they can bloodhunt a bit . Fiends are stealthy too and there is an item that gives stealth leaders assasination orders . Gandalf stated he likes this and with pangenea this might really be worth a try .
I find them just personally too complicated
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Alneyan said:
How would cavalry be helpful as an alone army? Unless you have flying commanders as well (or anything else going at a map speed of 3), they will have to fight on their own, without any kind of support (archers, spellcasters, cheerleaders). Or should they mostly be used thus for diVersion attacks? For example, while the bulk of your army heads for the enemy army, one or two cavalry raiders may be a nice annoyance. Chasing them down will result in spreading forces, and buying PD may still hurt the economy.
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The ulmish cavalry has only 2 strat movement , as the sappers do . A cavalry / sapper force with ulm smiths has lots of combat potential .
Same for marignon their cavalry has 2 strat move , so do their x-bows / flaggelants and commanders .
So no need to run them as a single force . Especially a marignon knight/mage/x-bow force is not easy to deal with .