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This mode is, as I already mentioned, extremely useful against elephants. Can use flaming arrow mode, which causes them to attack a lot slower, but their attacks become far more devastating to enemy morale. Keep them away from melee, and safe from enemy cavalry. Field them if you have no other ranged units, or if the alternative is fielding peasantry, as they can still take them down, even in melee combat. If you have archers, order them to fire flaming arrows on the elephants, which would eventually cause them to panic and run amok the battlefield, destroying friend and foe alike. Probably the biggest weakness of these units is the fact that beasts can be scared by fire. If you see enemy fielding elephants, you better pray your missile units can inflict as much damage to them as possible, before they overrun you. Can even charge directly at phalanxes and trample them in a matter of seconds. If heavy calvary are tanks, then elephants are nukes.
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Remember to always keep an eye out on your general unit, because if your general dies, it might demoralize your armies and rout them from the battle. While they are extremely strong, they are also extremey valuable. Your generals tend to be units of heavy cavalry. You should still avoid directly charging at phalanxes. Stong and extremely useful against almost everything. Heavy cavalry were the equivalent of tanks in the pre-gunpowder times. They can also be useful in taking down horse archers. Great at moving down missile units and fleeing enemies. Or you can put them in guard mode and have them defend while you circle the enemy and flank them with other units. You can put them in loose formation and have them beat phalanxes of equal tier. Useful against phalanxes and spearmen, especially if used correctly. Especially if you’re playing as a Roman faction. Strong against cavalry, so don’t underestimate them and charge straight into them with your general, or you might get into a nasty surprise.Ĭivilized peoples’ version of spearmen. Generally fielded by barbarian nations as the bulk of their armies. Field them only if there is no real alternative.Īnother cheap type of units, but far more reliable than light infantry. They serve as arrow fodder, to distract the enemy and soak them up while your actual units do the fighting. These are, generally speaking, the weakest units in game. I will not be attempting to explain every single unit in the game, as the point of this guide is supposed to be about giving relatively simple introduction to the game, so I don’t really want to cause any headaches. This section of the guide is going to be about various units types, their strengths and weaknesses. Also, if you see something you consider to be wrong, please inform me. I haven’t ripped anyone off, but neither do I claim that I came up with everything within the guide on my own – as I said, some stuff is merely things I learned by talking to other people about it.If you feel that I let something out, please do not hesitate to comment and give me criticism over the guide.
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The guide is based on my own personal experience with the game, and some thing I learned in conversation with other fans of the series. But as of the moment I’m writing this, there isn’t a single guide for this game on Steam, so I figured I might make one.It wasn’t a particularly hard guide to make, as I made it in my spare time in a single evening.
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This relatively smple guide is aimed to help out people who are new to the Total War series and are starting with the oldest Total War game available on Steam.This is the first gaming guide I have attempted to made, so it’s understandably far from perfect.