Rating PD

Rytek · #1 April 2nd, 2007, 07:29 AM

What race would you consider having the best and worst pd?

I think some of the top PD nations:
Abyssia, Ulm, Sauromatia (pretty much all archers),

Some of the worst:
Machakata, all the monkey nations, Caelum and Arco (the light infantry runs ahead of all the myrmidons, gets killed, then the myrmidons break)

What are your favorites?

Methel · #2 April 2nd, 2007, 07:47 AM

the monkeys actually get the pretty decent bandar infantry at higher levels, those are brutal. Especially in EA when they are even armored

MaxWilson · #3 April 2nd, 2007, 08:49 AM

I'm still learning the various races, but so far I'm really unimpressed with Niefelheim's PD (low attack + large size = never hits anything) and I remember being favorably impressed with EA Ermor. Helheim's PD is good in the sense that for 1 point you get a Vanherse who's sacred and a spellcaster, and will occasionally get lucky and stop a medium-strength attack by killing the commander with a Lightning Bolt or something. Other than that, Helheim's PD is good troops with poor morale. I like Marverni PD. Lots of missile troops, decent attack/defense, good quantity.

-Max Wilson

Rytek · #4 April 2nd, 2007, 09:01 AM

yeah, i was surprised with the performance of Marveni as well. And I also found the Giants PD pretty poor.

Problem with the monkey PD is the same as Arco. All those light monkeys run ahead and get slaughtered then they route. The heavy bandar infantry are ususally routing before they get into it.

TwoBits · #5 April 2nd, 2007, 09:25 AM

What's really horrible about Caelum's PD is how the flyers immediately get shot down by their own archers - a problem with any mixed archer/infantry PD, but with them, you don't even get one or two rounds of open shooting before friendly fire becomes an issue...

Folket · #6 April 2nd, 2007, 09:34 AM

Jotunheim has by far the worst PD. I had my pd of 13 defeated by 8 medium infantry.

Monkey nation have fair to weak pd. The fast monkeys have size 1 and 13-14 defence. Against most armies they will get defeated pretty quickly, but if you have other units as well, they will keep the enemy busy for a couple of turns. Also against giants they work great. Giants can only stack one in each square so it will take a long time before they have killed enough to make them break.

I think LA Then Chi have the best PD. lots of archer and some heavy cavalry archer that will fight well in close combat as well.

Ulm do not have that good pd. Only 1.5 unit a point. 2.5 over 20.

I also consider Caelum to have fair pd. The flyers will attack on round 1 before any raider will be able to buff. Also they have fair chances against barbarian hordes and other random attacks.

Managarm · #7 April 2nd, 2007, 01:23 PM

Mictlan has also a weak PD below 20, they get just light armored warriors that are wiped out very easily

At a value of PD 20 onwards things change because they get a Mictlan Priest as a second commander plus Jaguar Warriors. This conforms a very strong setup taking into account the insane blesses that Mictlan uses...