Newbie`s questions.

[trevi2]

Following with your advices...

I have read the section warfare of the Wiki, and I have four questions, about it.

1. They recommend count with two or three cavalary corps, and the infantery only being used to siege the cities. At least I can not afford myself to invest in a troop that is worth 5 times what another unit does. Are cavalry units really worth it?

2. They recommend to siege the cities with 1.000 - 2.000 men, not loosing troops due to the continues attacks to the walls (what I prefer to do), letting the population die of hunger and desiase. In fact in many occasions, I see that the attacking forces of the IA is what they do, because they do not loose tropps when sieging cities. I do assume that I loose many troops due to my attacks, but I believe they are much faster. What is your opinion?

3. They recommend to have generals, leading the troops, obviously, I think the same. My problem is that in the 2 games where I bought generals, they died in a period of 1-4 years, so I decided not to play with them. Aditionally, as my military tradittion is not high, their values were poor, I assume that with time they get better, but I do not Know if they are harder.

4. I believe it is not possible to decide which are the troops used to be reinforced first. What is the criteria the AI uses?

Thanks in advance

 

[TheArchMede]

1. Depends. If you have the larger army in a battle (and you should try to avoid battles where you don't) a little cavalry is definitely useful. However, using heavily cavalry armies is a tactic that worked a lot better in earlier versions of the game than it does now.

2. The same goes for assaulting. It paid a lot more in earlier versions of the game than it does now. There are still occasions where it pays, but you need a much bigger army and you take much higher casualties when your army isn't big enough.

3. Big countries will have a problem building up military tradition early on. You get most tradition by using small allies (your vassals). Reinforce their battles and sieges will get you a lot more tradition than leaving them in a separate theatre. I will recruit one general if my tradition is low (under 30%), two if moderate (30-80%) and keep recruiting new ones every time it gets to 100%.

4. Take care of your manpower and they will all get reinforced. It will take a bit of practice, but that's what you should aim for.

 

[trevi2]

It is incredible¡¡¡¡ I am attacking now Morocco, and I am following the instrucctions about sieging... I put 3.000 guys in each province... The Maroquians are falling even sooner that when I attacked them with 10.000 units¡¡¡

P.S. Sorry about the spelling but I am Spanish and I do not count with an english corrector in the forum

 

[trevi2]

Pardon me¡¡¡ They fall even faster¡¡¡

 

[Ruanek]

I generally try to put 1000 soldiers in each enemy province (more if the fort level is higher) and keep another army for assaults, but I usually only assault if the walls are breached (and preferably if the siege is also progressing poorly). If I'm just waiting for sieges to end I start assaulting the provinces where the siege has progressed the least.

 

[unmerged(88716)]

Exactly. With patch 5.2 it's better to just leave 1 unit per fort level and wait for them to fall. Keep you manpower as high as you can.

 

[trevi2]

Attacking on Morocco:

I have read the section warfare of the Wiki, and I have four questions, about it.

1. Cavalary: amazing how they crush the enemy troops.

2. Sieging: why loosing 4.000 troops out of 8.000 if loosing 100 you do the same with 2.000

3. Generals: I hope they do not die. No other thing I can do...

4. I believe it is not possible to decide which are the troops used to be reinforced first. What is the criteria the AI uses?

Thanks in advance

 

[Boon63]

4 - If I'm not wrong, armies are reinforced following the top-right-panel order. If you really want to bother with that, you can always push the "create new unit" button, and send all regiments in the new army. This new army will be at the bottom of the list and the last to be reinforced.

 

[trevi2]

Regarding this point: the fact why I did not count with manpower was because of the WE, and the troops used to attack the revolts. I did not pay attention to WE, and therefore I had a lot of revolts. And regarding the forces you have to send to kill the revolts are a single army of 9.000 cavalary men. Those two things solve the problem entirely