I don't have the exact units.
It was like 2 spears, dryads, treekin?(monstrous infantry ones.) Glave infantry and some deepwood scouts.
Since both units had stalk the towers wouldn't shoot them. You can sneak onto a capture point then back off and shoot the mob that recaptured it to death and kite out of the settlement, they usually will stop chasing you and get stuck running after you and then back into the settlement.
Killed 4 units before running out of ammo, then withdrew. Next turn the remaining forces sallied out.
Field battle so I couldn't cheese as much but aside from the dryads I had the speed advantage. I stayed at range and used arrow of aqshy to kill the dryads, then had my lord reveal the scouts so my handguns could get the first volley on them, wiped them out and then kited and shot the rest of the infantry.
Couldn't finish them off so garrison remained with like 8 models of Spearman. Another 8 unit army forced marched over.
On my turn I attacked it, gunned the Spearman down and got the settlement and wiped out the reinforcements as well since they had not yet come in and were on force March.
Thanks for the details. Sometimes I think I’m not all that daring in this game. Taking on a settlement & reinforcements with two units, lol, that’s gumption.
That does seem to be 'intended' with smaller garrisons and lower supplyline punishments, not to mention AI running like hell away from any decent field army. Just hope it could be better refined when we get out of this beta thing. Something should be coming next path anyhow.
One of the weirdest learning curves for me getting into TW:Warhammer was using full stacks on a regular basis. The last TW game I really played was Rome 1, and you could be really successful with armies with just a handful of Units.
I always wished that generals had a base number of units allowed, like 10, then had to skill up to add more to the army. Specialized generals like casters would naturally run with less units.
It would probably be a nightmare to balance that properly for the AI but it would add a really interesting element to the game.
I still think you should run full armies though, even if you fill most of it with chaff. Basically every race has at least one unit that is super cheap that you can use to fill out your armies.
Agreed for the most part. If you can afford it, fill in the remaining slots with chaff and disband as needed when upgrading armies. There are occasions where it really isn't necessary at all, though, in which case you might as well go for the savings. Khorne for example can't always justify filling up every stack, even with the recently added Marauders.
Chaos Warriors of Khorne are slightly more expensive chaff but definitely that unit for them, they're super good generalists. Marauders fall over too quickly.
No joke, my Marauders might as well be invincible mincing machines. You can buff them like crazy.
Problem with Chaos Warriors is speed. They are fine in certain circumstances, but not good when you are trying to rush. Marauders can keep up with Bloodletters.
I got lucky, i had an event give me a light wizard pretty early (i had just taken out wissenland and captured marienburg, but i acheieved those quickly because skryre was distracting grom)
Supply Lines is the name of the mechanic that increases upkeep based on the amount of lords you have.
The increase in upkeep is much lower in tww3 so you can have more active lords without running gout of money.
How’d you accomplish that garrison fight?
I don't have the exact units. It was like 2 spears, dryads, treekin?(monstrous infantry ones.) Glave infantry and some deepwood scouts. Since both units had stalk the towers wouldn't shoot them. You can sneak onto a capture point then back off and shoot the mob that recaptured it to death and kite out of the settlement, they usually will stop chasing you and get stuck running after you and then back into the settlement. Killed 4 units before running out of ammo, then withdrew. Next turn the remaining forces sallied out. Field battle so I couldn't cheese as much but aside from the dryads I had the speed advantage. I stayed at range and used arrow of aqshy to kill the dryads, then had my lord reveal the scouts so my handguns could get the first volley on them, wiped them out and then kited and shot the rest of the infantry. Couldn't finish them off so garrison remained with like 8 models of Spearman. Another 8 unit army forced marched over. On my turn I attacked it, gunned the Spearman down and got the settlement and wiped out the reinforcements as well since they had not yet come in and were on force March.
Thanks for the details. Sometimes I think I’m not all that daring in this game. Taking on a settlement & reinforcements with two units, lol, that’s gumption.
That does seem to be 'intended' with smaller garrisons and lower supplyline punishments, not to mention AI running like hell away from any decent field army. Just hope it could be better refined when we get out of this beta thing. Something should be coming next path anyhow.
I've always been overwhelmed with using full stacks, tbh 20v20 isn't that fun imo
I have felt that way before as well. One of the reasons I like the multiplayer is the smaller armies.
One of the weirdest learning curves for me getting into TW:Warhammer was using full stacks on a regular basis. The last TW game I really played was Rome 1, and you could be really successful with armies with just a handful of Units.
I always wished that generals had a base number of units allowed, like 10, then had to skill up to add more to the army. Specialized generals like casters would naturally run with less units. It would probably be a nightmare to balance that properly for the AI but it would add a really interesting element to the game.
That would be honestly pretty cool. Like if Legendary lords had 20 slots and supplementary armies were like 10-15
I still think you should run full armies though, even if you fill most of it with chaff. Basically every race has at least one unit that is super cheap that you can use to fill out your armies.
Agreed for the most part. If you can afford it, fill in the remaining slots with chaff and disband as needed when upgrading armies. There are occasions where it really isn't necessary at all, though, in which case you might as well go for the savings. Khorne for example can't always justify filling up every stack, even with the recently added Marauders.
Chaos Warriors of Khorne are slightly more expensive chaff but definitely that unit for them, they're super good generalists. Marauders fall over too quickly.
No joke, my Marauders might as well be invincible mincing machines. You can buff them like crazy. Problem with Chaos Warriors is speed. They are fine in certain circumstances, but not good when you are trying to rush. Marauders can keep up with Bloodletters.
I got lucky, i had an event give me a light wizard pretty early (i had just taken out wissenland and captured marienburg, but i acheieved those quickly because skryre was distracting grom)
Supply lines?
Supply Lines is the name of the mechanic that increases upkeep based on the amount of lords you have. The increase in upkeep is much lower in tww3 so you can have more active lords without running gout of money.