Yeah, somewhat reminds me of my own preferred formation for Empire. Cannons in field fortifications in the center, light dragoons just behind the cannons, line infantry on either side of the cannons, skirmishers with stakes on the flanks, and cavalry either behind my lines or off to one flank depending on the situation.
@@NRSGuardian Whereas in warhammer total war, the best empire formation is always mass handgunners, hellstorm rockets to wipe enemy archers, a steam tank to kill enemy artillery, and a big scary lord to duel whatever gets through the gun line.
@Malignard 95 armour provides an average damage reduction of 71%. 31% of non-AP damage bleeding through is more significant than the 1 point of AP damage.
Hellstorm Rocketbatterys are special artillery piece that requires special formations. I always put them back like mortals and then they destroyed my own army😂. I have learned so many different tactics Watching legends streams/ videos! Rly great content as always.
I find having them in line with my gunners/in front of my crossbows works well, with heroes in front to tank. You really don't want to have them firing if there's anything they could possibly hit that's friendly between them and the target though or they WILL find a way to cause friendly fire. I think the key advantage of hellblaster volley guns is that because they direct fire they can shoot into enemies incredibly close with effective accuracy and shot placement, whilst most other artillery becomes useless at short range (mortars can also be good at short range but require a static front line in order to deal damage, and at that point you can usually get away with magic
The plague claw catapults crew had better aim then the jezzails; they hit the emperor in the air several times. Throt is lucky to not have lose such skillfull soldiers.
Greatswords tend to fair not to well even under normal difficulty! Most high tier shield less infantry tend to underperform when fighting anyone besides chaos. Well, I guess bladesingers do well, but most aren't great. In fact, I think if you're not up against hellstorm rocket batteries, even chosen do better than greatswords.
Honestly the game has way too much units doing AP damage that there is no need for specialized unshielded melee infrantry for it. I think ranged units that can fire in an arc shouldn't be able to do this much damage, it makes so many units relatively obsolete in single player.
@@shiggydiggy6847 On very hard, most player melee infantry are kind of worthless. It's understandable when your mid tier melee infantry lose to high tier infantry or cavalry. It is excusable when your mid tier infantry lose to mid tier AI infantry since the AI just needs bit of help. But it turns out mid tier infantry on harder difficulties will usually lose in melee with high leadership (as in not basic archers) enemy missile infantry _even if they get in melee without being shot._ On lower difficulties melee infantry are somewhat viable. But even without the AI cheats, high tier unshielded infantry just aren't that great.
Bladesingers are basically doomstack if boosted correctly and they are pretty good even in normal stack in very hard battle difficulty as they are pretty quick and in loose formation so dont die to artilery and missile units so fast as normal infantry.
CA really should have added the checkerfield formation for Brettonia Just realised i wrote field instead of board but you're probably going to fight most battles on a field so it still works.
there's a video on youtube showing why they suck at moving. something about changing which unit in a squad that "commands" the movement. cant remember exactly how it is, but the video is great. Going to rewatch it now.
Best cost efficient, campaign efficient, growth efficient, time efficient, battle efficient troops for any empire army is 1 life wizard, 1 fire wizard, around 10 battle priest. With new battle priest lords, when they are level 2 you can increase capacity for warrior priest heroes. Meaning, 1 sack city, each turn new hero. You immediately get rid of any corruption, they boost growth crazy, around 600-700 growth per turn can easily be reached. their aoe abilities are super effective at battle, they are cheaper than regular army, they boost your public order, winds of magic, research rate, etc. from followers. They are further boosted with every item you find.
If you're auto-reaolving the battles, definitely. If you're fighting the battles it probably could with the pause mechanic. Setting formations would be a nightmare with a controller though. A lot to keep track of with a joystick. If keyboard and mouse work on them (i mean they ARE computers) than yeah it definitely could.
issue an attack towards an enemy unit and as the unit is about to land cancel the attack by issuing a move command else where right as it lands its attack but before it hits the ground, takes some practice but its a very handy tactic!
@@scoot115 I once won my own disaster battle with High Elves with (I think) Alistair on a Dragon in Dark Elf territory. He beat 12 full units of dreadspears by skimming and belly flopping onto them.
Legend, why don't you set up battle formation at start, lock it, that way you don't have to manually reform every individual units? Or at least just the great swords so the archers continue firing.
Long line of fire with great swords coming out form behind and going back and forth. Karl franz as distraction to separate the army meanwhile his gun line do the work with cavalry artas sing the enemy missile units. You can’t be more wrong lol.
They had 2 manticores evil thin gs the 5 archers were tomb kings it was very hard w h ghorst a von carstein bloodline and a small army of a vampire ;lady v my 2 tomb kings one a dynasty the other a regular king. w 2 heirotitains. a screamign skull 2 regular catpults. 1 lord on war sphins other a horse all my heros wonded 1 lvl 17 necrotec killed ended up my last king and heirotit v ghorst and a balecart for a win
i dont wanna say your not good, ut all these save batlles is just waste ammo with yor lord. and if people who watches you, but still dont undertans, shame on them
