Ranger X
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posted 04 November 2002 11:39 AM
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I don’t know about how to beat the archers as I find myself using massed slingers with support alot as eggies. Also Shurafa I saw a replay of yours on MFO the other day when I was looking for some good strats very impressive maybe we could play each other on ESO and you could stop me a few times.
God of War
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posted 04 November 2002 12:24 PM
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The only viable counter is the raider Cav backed up by throwing Axemen. The TA's will chew up the hoplites like nobody's business and and the raiders should handle the archers. Managed correctly, you should be able to win with that combo. I've had it used on me and my Slingers and Spearmen got wasted. I should think it would at least be similar.
Snow
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posted 04 November 2002 12:51 PM
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I agree with you. Vs Egypt its a difficult beggining. I'm still trying to figure out a decent counter for that combo.
Caseyclee
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posted 04 November 2002 01:26 PM
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I assume you are talking about an early classical age counter... which i can see as being challenging due to some of the counter units being in the heroic age. But if you test in the editor... a lot of the myth units do quite well vs early archers. 5 cyclops for example can easily beat 30 toxotes, using an equivalent number of centaurs in terms of wood do fairly well, throwing axemen with an einjhar or valkyres do pretty well. Maybe you can recommend a film that shows the problem in a more detailed way because i have not had any problem dealing with massed archers yet. In any case if you progress to heroic archers should no pose a problem regardless but they are still among the most used units because they are cheap and decent at countering heroes.
AFK_Tick
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posted 04 November 2002 01:42 PM
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Yes, myth units and god powers are the only answers I see. Even in later ages, it's tough to counter massed toxotes. There just aren't any onager equivalents to deal with massed ranged units in AOM.
petard_rusher
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posted 04 November 2002 04:50 PM
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Hmm first off I'll have to point out that I haven't been able to paly verse any of the best players so I don't have much practical experience with this. I play as Odin so the first thing I'd do is pick Freyja so as to get Valkaryes and Forest Fire. As Odin your econ should be better than a Hades player so you go before him and start going R-Cav + TAs. Use the R-Cav to raid, whenever you find his main wood point burn it to the ground, that should slow his archer production while you get more R-Cav and TAs and attack him.