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    Quote Originally Posted by RottenMind View Post
    A agree that you cant win with just archers, but what i mean is that all you need with them is some force to deley the incoming troops. like if you have 5:1 archersikeman all pikeman will die but very few archers will
    Not true. Unless the attacker's archery is higher than the defender's horseback ridding, calvery will be in range of the archers in the first round. The pikes will be in range too, but calvery targets archers FIRST. Battle reports in the forums prove this as archers get slaughtered while pikes take no losses.

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    Fact is swordsman train way faster than archers , you can support more swordsman than archers in 1 town , so the ratio you have given of 1000 vs 1000 is not evened out considering the time it takes to train each unit .
    And most battle won't have only a 1vs1 scenario , so what you posted has absolutely no relativity because the chance of something like that happening is low . You would have to be crazy to send archers alone to attack.
    The game is about combination .

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    So what would you use to counter 1 swd, 1 pike, 1 archer, 1 calvary, 99,996 cataphracts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerose View Post
    So what would you use to counter 1 swd, 1 pike, 1 archer, 1 calvary, 99,996 cataphracts?
    Archer towers, pikes, abatis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valin View Post
    Archer towers, pikes, abatis.
    numbers please?

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    Well I would use my normal fortification setup of 1-2k abatis, rest AT's, with about 30k or so pikes. Should be enough for a win. Due to catas slower speed, you archers can also stay and fight. More abatis would be better, but most people don't use that many catas so I don't build more.

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    That's minimum by the way.

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