Hi Folks,
I went straight from vanilla to BNW (I bought G&K but never really played more than a few hours). So I'm playing on Difficulty 6 (Emperor?) like I normally would. I'm Morocco and i'm fighting the aztecs. Its the medieval time period and this is what i've observed.
1. Assaulting with longswordsmen does ~10 damage to a town. I don't know how much total hp they have but the bar barely moved. The swordsmen were ~20% life after an assault. Melee never used to be this weak.
2. Apparently 1UP is of the past. The Aztecs have a treb, galleas both in the city. So now the city, ship and treb all bombard the same unit (assuming the first two volleys don't kill it).
I used the following to assault a city. After 4 turns of sieging i lost most of it.
3 swords
1 pikeman
1 composite archer
2 trebs
2 galleas.
I'm glad the AI was made into a somewhat competent fighter but good lord. If i have to throw ~10 units at each city there's no way i'll win through conquest. If anyone has sieging advice or a like to a guide on how to play on higher difficulties I would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jec
I went straight from vanilla to BNW (I bought G&K but never really played more than a few hours). So I'm playing on Difficulty 6 (Emperor?) like I normally would. I'm Morocco and i'm fighting the aztecs. Its the medieval time period and this is what i've observed.
1. Assaulting with longswordsmen does ~10 damage to a town. I don't know how much total hp they have but the bar barely moved. The swordsmen were ~20% life after an assault. Melee never used to be this weak.
2. Apparently 1UP is of the past. The Aztecs have a treb, galleas both in the city. So now the city, ship and treb all bombard the same unit (assuming the first two volleys don't kill it).
I used the following to assault a city. After 4 turns of sieging i lost most of it.
3 swords
1 pikeman
1 composite archer
2 trebs
2 galleas.
I'm glad the AI was made into a somewhat competent fighter but good lord. If i have to throw ~10 units at each city there's no way i'll win through conquest. If anyone has sieging advice or a like to a guide on how to play on higher difficulties I would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jec