Caelum questions

[Rathar]

Caelum is a bit hard in the beginning as their troops are made out of thin paper so there is a bit of a critical mass effect going on but once you have a pile of them you can cast wind guide and they become pretty efficient.

1: 30+ caelum archers (I use the weak ones as the 9 resource type doesn't seem to have any more survivability) and as many seraphs as you can get. Archers on shoot closest pepper/block while mages false horror/lightning stuff.

2+3?: if you refer to flying melee types, screw em. They are weak in everyway and I have barely ever seen them do more than fly up to enemy, all miss, get poked back, flee and spread themselves alll over.

4: a couple and as many as possible. Seem to work very well in stacks of 10+

5: I never buy them so..

6: When running right it's 0% losses for me and 100% for them. If ground troops can get a significant body of soldiers in contact with my archer blocks it usually turns out ugly for me. My goal is to have 20+ false horrors a turn getting in the way of that happening.

7: Never had a game where it wasn't necessary to have secondary leaders running around picking up retreated troops and the 1-2 x-bow men various provinces make.

Rathar

[shovah]

would just like to remind everyone here that cb mod increases the fatigue of false horror so if your planning a prolonged battle try ghost wolves

[Oversway]

false horrors have some benefits over wolves, I think you have to consider the battle, even in cb

[shovah]

flying and light fear are good and i use them alot but in bigger battles you should still have a few ghost wolf casters imo

[OG_Gleep]

For the flying stacks, these could be a mix of melee and archers, or pure archers and mages. For armies with ground units, you really intend for atleast some of them to get into melee. I was asking (although not clearly) is basically, do you normally take archers, or melee support.

Thanks for the tips guys, most of the armies I have played had very survivable units. It was a bit of a surprise to watch these guys get hit so bad.

[shovah]

the only time i use caelums melee units (not mammoths, i use them alot) are either when i desperately need to reach mages/archers or against a ton of ethereal undead (read SG ermor) but generally i stick with mammoths and archers (who often have wind guide and fire arrows from a pretender in large fights)

[OG_Gleep]

Another quick question..both mages have easy access to quickness. But they putter out once the script is done it seems. Do you guys still cast quickness without reinvig items?