Guerrand_ac
Mortal
posted 03 March 2003 06:41 PM
EDT (US)
1 / 12
if your fighting loki or odin, make more spears then slingers, 99% of the time most of an Odin/Loki players army will be mostly Raiding calvlry. Build many towers to take out hersirs.
Guerrand_ac
Mortal
posted 03 March 2003 06:41 PM
EDT (US)
2 / 12
thats more for odin than loki though, if against loki combine some axemen in there to help with hersirs
NoFx_Bruntino
Mortal
posted 03 March 2003 07:05 PM
EDT (US)
3 / 12
r slingers any good against infantry?
iamgameguy
Mortal
posted 03 March 2003 07:19 PM
EDT (US)
4 / 12
no, vs. infantry use axeman. slingers are only good vs. archers.
Master_Blaster
Mortal
posted 03 March 2003 08:00 PM
EDT (US)
5 / 12
Early on slingers are good against archers, hersirs and ulfsarks and thats about it. Everything else has enough pierce armor and hps to make slingers take forever to kill them. Egypt plays different than the other civs, you need to react to what you think the enemy will build as most of their units are counter units instead of versatile units. Most people open with spearmen because they really are versatile, they have a chance to beat everything in classic except anti infantry units.
Jackothefinn
Mortal
posted 04 March 2003 01:04 AM
EDT (US)
8 / 12
The slinger also has a 2* bonus vs thraxmen and 1.25* bonus versus axemen and hypas. with slings of the sun, they also have a 2* vs infantry.
God of War
Mortal
posted 04 March 2003 09:45 AM
EDT (US)
10 / 12
I would tend to make more axemen if you are fighting the Norse and more spearmen if you are fighting the Greeks. If you are fighting the Norse you'll likely vastly outnumber his raiding cavalry anyhow and axemen will serve the purpose and you'll demolish his infantry if he tries to bring them in. Back them up with Slingers. I played a Greek last night and I don't think he expected me to forward build on him. Holy Jesus he had a lot of Hips. Spears spears spears against the Greeks early. Backed up by beautifully micro'd slingers, I was able to eliminate almost all his toxotes before he could swarm me over. I forced him to spend way too much on getting Horses out to eliminate my forward and was able to Heroic 3 minutes faster than him and that's all she wrote. He advanced on my base and met with an empowered Midgol dumping arrows along with my CAs and he backed off. It was just a matter of time before I was able to get enough camels/CAs/siege out to end him. That's another key. I usually let my spears, axes, camels and elephants go to town and micro my ranged units, especially slingers. Don't make too many elephants if you make them at all. The one good thing about them is they draw fire away from other things because people are scared of them for some reason.
Ashenshugra
Mortal
posted 04 March 2003 10:28 PM
EDT (US)
11 / 12
I would also say always have about 3 preists to heal your units. I love massed slingers with a spear or axe meat sheild, its awesome to see those cheap units tear apart archers, ta, rc, basically your classical age units.