On the very rare case where they don't, you can still engage them yourself. This will often get enemy archers to leave the walls, turn around, and shoot at your diversion, making the main wave's push 100% safe. They don't necessarily have to just stand there either: You can use them to scale the walls first, often on the side opposite to your melee units, sacrificing them in droves to force enemy units off your main approach route. The same should be done if you have to scale the walls under fire and have already used up your bows' ammo (great job!). Move them in range of the enemy archers before your melee units, preferably in a scattered formation and as a very wide, shallow line.
If, for any reason, you can't get ten minutes of continuous arrow fire to use up all your ammo, if you have to make a charge for the walls under enemy fire, use you bows as cannon fodder.
Total war shogun 2 full#
Stealth looks neat, but is mostly pointless.īows are pointless in a siege, especially as the attacker, if you can't get a full quiver's mileage out of them - they just can't do the damage of their melee counterparts if you only get five or six volleys in, and they cost more. Guns are great as a defender and useless as an attacker. Hence, my advice on exotic stuff is limited: Siege weapons seem mostly useless, forcing you to take on a repair bill as well as a public order decrease, having damage that's mostly inferior to a normal ranged unit with the only benefit being range, and IIRC slowing your army down. I always run a purely ashigaru force on Legendary, rarely bringing cannons "for the lulz", and almost never using matchlocks in my army composition. Luckily, the AI can be beat with an equal-sized army on a regular basis, and with even less sometimes. IIRC, in PvP you only get 40% of the attacker's army size for balance purposes: It is obviously very advantageous to defend. I'll mostly be talking about PvE, as that is my strong point, having played only a few field battles in the multiplayer portion of the game. Tactics will vary depending on your army composition, and that of the enemy.
0 kommentar(er)
