I know a lot of players don't stick to a monotone cultural getup when they play, but a lot of players probably do what I do; try to stick to culturally appropriate armours and weapons for the culture I am playing. I take this mentality with me to smithing as well, where I try to smith and use weapons that suit my characters culture appropriately. But I have some exceptions; I often use animal pelts for shoulder armour when playing as a Vlandian or Imperial. If I play as a Sturgian I may use some Khuzait armour. And if I play as a mercenary or Lord for a different cultural faction than my character is from, I may use a mix of regional armours and use my own culture for a weapon. Example; I played a Nord corsair mercenary for the Empire. I used gilded scale Imperial armour with gilded scale shoulderguards, golden pirate gauntlets and boots, and a brass Aserai helmet with a Nord one handed sword with gilded pummel and handguard. Anyone else give themselves similar cultural restrict...
I'm playing PoP, but I think that the question generalizes well.
I have a medium sized (~200) army, about half of which are Empire crossbows. When I can pull enemies into mountainous terrain, I need only position my crossbowmen on the high ground, plug up any position which the enemy will funnel into with my infantry and provoke the enemy cavalry into a charge with my harassing horse archers and then hit the charging cavalry's flank with my own cavalry. After breaking the momentum of the first cavalry charge, I retreat behind my infantry and the crossbows kill everything. This strategy allows me to take on armies that are 300-strong with only a handful of casualties.
When I fight armies that are larger than 300, my crossbows start to run dry and then I'm forced to retreat and repeat even when I have my crossbows hold fire until the enemy troops are closer. This allows me to take on almost arbitrarily large forces, but feels cheesy and a bit unfair. Is there a more "legitimate" tactic that I can use to take on armies which are considerably larger than my own?
I'm playing with 530 battle size, good combat AI and normal damage to friendly troops, if that changes the equation in any way.
Submitted January 19, 2019 at 08:38PM by wtb_rsf_bud http://bit.ly/2RZth0W
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