Scouts are fast, maybe they should be made unable to capture buildings.....and should only be able to hit resource piles....

ever time i join a game i get all scouts because you get two com any way so why waste the room in the barrack , when you could use the room 4 other men so you dont have to waste one round on making the men

Well there's a point to it, but I can't live without 4 comms stacks.

Boe, I also start with 4 scouts - as was mentioned, they can take over buildings and leave the comms to repair while they go for the resource piles. It also gives me a little bit of a military edge, and if I ever do need more comms, I can assign them to a barracks with no turn penalty. Hooray.

Arnof the Vile

well i usually start with 1 of them all then u can train double in your barracks when you want to.. spears are good when they have over 200 troops an in army but they are worthless when they have less than that...swords are worthless unless u train over 250 anything less than that they are worthless...now scouts are good for about everything but of course building buildings when u get alot of scouts in 1 army they can do alot of damage...comms are good for only about 2 things..1..take over buildings..2..building buildings..

prancer you forgot the other thing comms are also good ... moral support in battle.

When you put a good number of them together behind your forces, theyu do increase the att/def modifiers, and count for significant losses on enemy forces.

yes i know but they arent really that good for alot of things

Yup. Just mundane things like increasing Bp, building things, taking over buildings/castles, repairing...

Arnof the Vile

ya well thats about it for comms they dont do a whole lot

As opposed to the other troops who just kill or destroy....

I think EVERYBODY should not use comms when they are in a war against me.

*on topic*

You really should get a batch of comms when first starting out. They will help you crush your opponents in various ways that I really can't divulge here.

They can build walls on slopes and watch them roll down and crush the infidels...


Kyrion

I was hoping no one would say that one. 80)

I wish I can start with 10 stacks of HC, 5 of mace, 5 of knigths (to balance the thing even). A good dash of marks let's say 15, and 5 comms...to build walls on slopes and have'm rolldown to crush infidels.

ya me 2 but mace arent that good for everything

Yep, they really suck at building walls to crush infidels...

But up against a few hundred 1 strong scout stacks and there's nothing like 'em , then again, there's nothing like a few hundred 1 strong scout stacks (thankfully), so it all balances, unless it's on a slope, in which case it'd roll down and crush something, like infidels maybe.


* stops talking about infidels *

Start with 4 swords! That's the way to go!


Kyrion

now that we have two castles at the beginning and only one barrack in each how will things work now?

ya i know kryion ur right but if u get like a stack of 250 scouts or more i thinkn they will be unstoppable but then agian they may not be but i could find out tho but i dont want to right now
well later ya'll
prancer

prancer, a stack of 250 scouts is relatively meaningless. A couple of marksmen or ballista stacks will tear through them very quickly.

Depends on timing. If you get it right, the ballista/marks will never see it coming

Get it right, massacre ranged
Get it wrong, massacre AT range