Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

[Tifone]

Yep usually when you get to 4 in some magic school, you start to consider yourself in mid-game, as you can start putting on the battlefield some real magical tactics to support your troops

And triqui about slingers I heard many say that they are useful against some kind of troops, I don't think I can give you a complete answer about what those troops are, but I can tell you as the sling takes only one hand, some slingers have slings in addition to a melee weapon and a shield! If set to fire archers or attack archers, they can shoot them with their slings, suffering much less from the return fire of archers' arrows as they can parry them with the shield, and when they end ammunitions or reach them just start bashing the archers

[chrispedersen]

Slingers are useful against trrops with glamour, just like markatas are.

You don't care (so much) about glamour. You want a cheap and effective way to get rid of glamour - and a hit - any hit will do it.

You want to divide your resource allocation between cheap troops that can dispell the glamour - and reasonably troops that can, one the glamour is gone, kill them.

All at a cost equal or less than the unit cost for vanheim's/tir's troops.

[triqui]

chrispedersen said:
Slingers are useful against trrops with glamour, just like markatas are.

You don't care (so much) about glamour. You want a cheap and effective way to get rid of glamour - and a hit - any hit will do it.

You want to divide your resource allocation between cheap troops that can dispell the glamour - and reasonably troops that can, one the glamour is gone, kill them.

All at a cost equal or less than the unit cost for vanheim's/tir's troops.

Markata are quite useless against most units with glamour. You dont need a hit, you need a hit that *does damage*. and with a whooping 5 damage weapon you will have a hard day to properly remove glamour.

[triqui]

Tifone said:
And triqui about slingers I heard many say that they are useful against some kind of troops, I don't think I can give you a complete answer about what those troops are, but I can tell you as the sling takes only one hand, some slingers have slings in addition to a melee weapon and a shield! If set to fire archers or attack archers, they can shoot them with their slings, suffering much less from the return fire of archers' arrows as they can parry them with the shield, and when they end ammunitions or reach them just start bashing the archers

Slingers have their niche. However, they are SIGNIFICANTLY worse than short bows, specially for early game expansion.

Yomi Short bows also happen to have stealth, which means they can set up some kind of decent raiding ability