I had a bad surprise yesterday.
It is known, that an army composed of Marines or Berserks can perform an amphibian attack.
But a mixed Army composed of Marines and Berserks is no longer amphibian.
Now that is an interesting lesser-known army fact! Who'd have thought? It must do a check like:
- Is the first unit amphibious? If no, the army isn't amphibious. If yes, go to 2.
- Is the next unit the same unit? If no, the army isn't amphibious. If yes, ask this again until all units have been looked at.
- If all units have bee looked at and are the same, then the army is amphibious.
Whereas really, it should look at whether the unit is amphibious, not whether it's the same, in step 2.
This is probably a pretty rarely encountered situation - not only do you have to be playing as the Vikings, but you have to add a pretty old unit to an army! I know I generally try to keep armies limited to pretty recent units - perhaps a Pikeman in with my Medieval Infantry, or a Cavalry army instead of Tanks if I need that extra movement, but if I'm adding Marines, I'd probably be inclined to wait until I had an additional Marine to add rather than a Berserker - unless I needed to attack right away, wanted some extra attacking strength, and only a Berserker was available and amphibious!