Bah moggie...I want to keep people ignorant of how to utilize ranged troops and how to destroy ranged troops and you just HAD to go and bump this thread....

Heehee

Ha, im sorta new how do u get catapolts im having a hell of a time trying to tare down buildings with my knights and heavy cav, it wwould be nice to find soem sort of seige weapons.
PS. thanx for this it really saved me.. i got 300 marks men and bolked on knights and some heavy cav and it saved me when i had to fight 2 ppl at once who had large numbers os pike, spires and heavy cav. [i killed most of their pikemen befor they even got to men and i took about 60 heavy cav with my second volly, though they killed some of my knights=( ], also what would u recomend to kill arbs best?

You get Cats by upgrading your barracks to expert siege. Regular siege gives you battering rams which are cheaper and sometimes more effective.(I don't think they have the same penalty for movement that cats do.)

Killing arbs? Someone actually has arbs? Any ranged will do the trick...just make sure you are outside the arbs range and fire away! Your balistas should work nicely...

Neb

Yes Neb some people actually like arbs. You don't have to protect them from melee and they can range attack. They are a very useful unit that gets ignored too much.

I enjoyed this as well - excellent help...

Some of this information may be out of date. Req changes the game very often, and I'm too lazy to read through and make sure it's up to date. It's likely that the basics are correct here, and that merely more nuanced points have suffered over time. Confirm with us in IRC before you take things as pure truth. We won't lead you astray.

I will indeed gallop over to the IRC and get the straight skinny