Question about Ulm/Armor

[littlemute]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Cohen:
You'll learn all troops are fodder ^^

Untrue. Not all troops ultimately degrade to fodder-class: Elite special-forces units often retain their jobs throughout the game: Vans, for instance, pretty much never go out of style.

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Let's discuss semantics for a second.

Fodder to me is light infantry, those lizard slaves, barbarians, etc that you want to chew up the hits from archery while they and hopefully your shock is able to hit the enemy.

Meat is somewhat steadfast troops to protect your archers/mages whatnotall that attack from behind them. Fodder can work as meat, but since it gets taken out so fast and then routs, it's better to have more solid meat there that can withstand close combat a bit.

Shock troops can be your flanking cavalry or your giants/ettins/bonegiants, etc that you screen with your fodder yet are too good to just be meat. They break units.

So that said, where does the ulm infantry fit in? Well, they aren't shock and work well as meat, however, since they take so little damage from archery of most kinds, I would say they were in the fodder class too. Hmm, now I'm right back where I started.