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The usefulness of archers is however, greatly diminished when the enemy manages to arrive at your army. Knights can do this in 2 turns. Other melee units might take 5 or so turns. Archers take a lot more than 5 turns to kill a squad. When the melee units arrive, combat can give casualties of perhaps 5:1 and charging/outflanking might give casualties of 10:1. Also, with too many archers, melee uniys will find it very easy to hunt down your king. Dead king = deserters
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If there's one thing about this game that really grinds my gears, it's the sheer deadliness of enemy archers. From all I've observed, no matter what game mode you are in, they can expect to get 60 kills at the least when shooting at my own archers. You don't get those numbers anywhere else other than right out of easy mode, and even in easy mode, the enemy can still get these drastic kills. Not to mention that for some reason, they are able to shoot across the whole map with ease whereas my arrows drop before the last handful of squares.
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Great game, one suggestion: In multiplayer, have an option to have two players play against each other on the same computer. They can take turns entering orders, and battle that way. That'd be awesome.
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One of the better strategy games I've played, the artwork is simple yet intriguing, and the chance of armies fleeing really adds a challenge to committing to strategies, but I found this game very enjoyable, and gives insight to the battle of the hastings. Overall 10/10
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Lol its so easy to just get all archers and just annihilate your opponent thats waiting for you to move while your archer army are just mowing down the enemy.
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last campaign mission on normal did a boar snout and was gonna attack an all spear militia shield wall when the tip of the snout unit stayed still while the sides kept on going forward. forever.
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Enemy started retreating, my archers at the ready.
"Men, just dump your arrows somewhere, we don't need them. We've won the day."
yeah well they fired it into the retreating enemies
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So I move my unit to the enemies rear, thus completing my envelopment, but not only do I not get any bonuses, the unit in the rear doesn't bother to attack. Seems once they have passed an enemy, they have won the race, cept its not a race and were dying while you guys smoke your pipes and laugh at the units behind you fighting. A Fatal flaw to what might actually be, what many reviewers say, is a great game.
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Doctor Jonathan I understand and agree, it's really weird. It even says that taunts give a "morale boost," but instead lowers enemy morale. Taunting should instead be a thing where you rejuvenate a shaken unit.
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Just finished the game on hard. Some tips for anyone having trouble: | | | | | 1. the enemy's taunts are unfair, and will typically do a lot more damage to your morale than you can do to theirs - you'll need to have a lot of taunters early on to keep them from gaining the advantage, using sheer quantity of taunts to make the numbers match up. | | | | | 2. The game typically gives you a pretty solid force composition. Tweaking it probably isn't a good idea unless you really know what you're doing. | | | | | 3. The best way to defeat an enemy is to charge them repeatedly, cycling two units. Have one retreat and the other charge on every turn. This is the most effective way to break enemy formations.
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my unit of warriors tried to retreat but was in front of a shield wall so it couldnt retreat and it softblocked my game because they couldnt retreat
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Getting a bug - archers just shoot as soon as i go to angle, often when angling it wont actually allow me to then add power and immediately tells me its a failed shot. gave up pretty quick
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1066 is awesome. I've played this game since it was released. Wish this developer would use this same format for other historical battles. If this ever gets ported to mobile, I'll be playing it all day.
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I always lose because of taunt. Normal difficulty, almost all the fights i win. the difference in solder number grows in my favor, the enemy taunting with 1 unit i taunt with 3 still losing because of morale. I am sure its my fault, but i had to rate this game low, i simply dont know how to counter this usually brutal taunts from enemy.