Crush my enemies and drive them before me

Must have just been one of those things. Ah well.

I'm still trying to figure out how the:

Machaka Spear 5, -1, -1, 5

is worse than the

Spear 3, 0, 0, 4

If you put them both on the same stat units (as opposed to the fantastic hoplites), does the Machaka Spear lose?

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Zen:
Must have just been one of those things. Ah well.

I'm still trying to figure out how the:

Machaka Spear 5, -1, -1, 5

is worse than the

Spear 3, 0, 0, 4

If you put them both on the same stat units (as opposed to the fantastic hoplites), does the Machaka Spear lose?

Yes. Try it in the sim! There are some times when the machaka spear is better (against low-morale, heavy-armor, low-attack, low-defense units with length 4 weapons) but that rarely occurs. Possibly machaka spear would be better against armored soulless warriors.

It's weird but true. Good thing the only thing with the Machaka Spear is on the very hip Machaka Hoplites which are very gravytrain and have naturally higher Morale and Defense.

Either way, my statement still stands. TC sucks at repelling. Their Pikemen have such icky morale (10) and defense (8) and armor, that they die by the truckloads. Stay away from them.

Though in this light you may want to try using the TC Tower Shield and Spear Infantry instead of the Falchion. But I have never in my experience had it make a notable difference.

[ January 22, 2004, 05:03: Message edited by: Zen ]

[Unwise]

Where is this fabled "sim"? I haven't seen it on any of the sites linked to Illwinter.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Unwise:
Where is this fabled "sim"? I haven't seen it on any of the sites linked to Illwinter.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000677#000000