Caelum questions

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i'm no expert, but i had a thing for caelum for a while, so i'll give you my two cents:

1) i like to put then on the sides with orders to hold and attack rear/archers

2) i have no idea what you're asking here.

3) absolutely. i also count on half of my flying units dying in most battles, though, so i just use them as special forces for taking out enemy archers or commanders, sort of like the same way i use eagle warriors as mictlan.

4) most indies i take with just wingless/mammoths and one or maybe two high seraphs. against humans, as many as i can afford to pull from research. they have great evocation spells, and the more false horrors you can spam, the better.

5) some will argue with me, but i say no. i usually only hire the more expensive ones as caelum.

6) when fighting indies, i usually have no losses on anything but heavy cavalry, knights, longbowmen, dark vines, that sort of thing. i also just use a gazillion archers (always the 9 resource ones, i've found)....and they plow through most armies and make them route before they get to you. then you have the mammoths there just in case they do get to you, set to hold and attack.

7) i have found it is often a good idea, especially for recruiting the "special forces" flying melee units i was talking about before. i use them expecting them to all die in a battle, but then i just have one guy running around picking up the runners who did survive.


edit: re-reading your questions, i think i answered number 2 with my number 1, and my real answer to your number 1 is....using only flying troops is generally a bad idea. at least, i can't figure out how to do it without mass death ensuing (assuming you don't have lots and lots of mages amongsto those fliers)