Do you use horsemen?

[Artifex1]

Do you use horsemen?

 

[lissenber]

Not at early game. Too busy defending myself and working luxury tiles which i can later sell off for 10 gold per turn.

After i get on my two feet i build iron units and horse units. After a while i use all of my iron units for the more suicidal attacks and eventually upgrade to riflemen or delete them. After that horsepower will be my main line of attack.

 

[IgnatiusTBarfat]

See the several forum topics on horsemen. E.g. Emperor: Win Every Game with Horsemen

But yes, if I want a fast / cheap win or to at least rapidly slim down the civ count, I rush HBR, grab some ponies, build a couple three riders and dominate.

 

[Artifex1]

See the several forum topics on horsemen. E.g. Emperor: Win Every Game with Horsemen

But yes, if I want a fast / cheap win or to at least rapidly slim down the civ count, I rush HBR, grab some ponies, build a couple three riders and dominate.

I already read that, this is a poll.

 

[Jharii]

But yes, if I want a fast / cheap win or to at least rapidly slim down the civ count, I rush HBR, grab some ponies, build a couple three riders and dominate.

Yes, because simply choosing less civs when you create the game would be silly.

I use them, but don't abuse them.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Depends on the civ and the resource count. You want your promotions on units that you will be upgrading sooner rather than later. If you are playing a civ with a monster, retainable upgrade along the Iron line, then building Horses in quantity now gimps you later. If not, Horses are the most efficient way to take care of business early on.

 

[bryanw1995]

horses are almost always the best choice. I'm playing irroquois for the first time and still built mostly horsemen for my rush. I built a couple mohawk warriors but they literally got 1 hit in during my entire rush of taking over a 5 civ large continent. the mohawks were just too slow to get to the front. I used my archers a lot, I had one archer who started as a scout and ended up with 2 att/turn, 3 tile range, and indirect fire, but by the time I got iron I had 4 archers and 5 horsemen so my enemies were toast.

 

[milk steak]

I stopped horse rushing since it trivializes the game on every non-Archipelago/isolated start difficulty. I tend to just use them against barbarians and for scouting now.

 

[Zhahz]

I use them but don't abuse them. Not much point in playing, especially on higher diffs, if you're using some cheeseball way to win easily all the time.

 

[Silvis]

I think that horses are essential for fending off enemy attackers in open terrain. I don't particularly care for them if its rough terrain as the movement speed really lets me hammer down on the enemy enough to get my armies close. Chariot Archers though... are crap... they get taken out by barbarians every time. Won't make that mistake again.

 

[Nunya]

I edited them and reduced movement to 3. Thinking about reducing strength as well.

 

[Trickster7135]

I always go for a rush at the beginning of the game, either horsemen with a few chariots or swordsmen and archers. Which I choose depends on the UU of the civ I'm playing, the available resources, the nearby terrain, and the map type and size.

 

[Trickster7135]

I edited them and reduced movement to 3. Thinking about reducing strength as well.

Strength-wise they're fine, as spearmen have an effective strength of 14 against their 12, and can use defensive bonuses to their advantage.

I've never understood why all mounted units don't have 3 movement, when only most of them do.

 

[Slayerkin]

They are fun to use but don't always dominate. I'm just playing a game where I declared war on Darius before my horsemen were positioned well and half of them were slautered by imortals. I had to pull back and am currently waiting for a few turns till I discover chivalry... which will suck for him as I am playing as Songhai.

 

[Sainhann]

Do you use horsemen?

Well I went with no since for most of my games I tend to not get any link to my cities.

Plus I do not like having to win by killing everyone.

 

[Supr49er]

They make great Barb Killers, but I don't use them if I play as Germany - too overpowered.

 

[aimlessgun]

Saw people complaining about them all over the place, so I've never used them. How do they feel at 3 movement nunya?

 

[S.K. Ren]

I'll take option 5: No, I like Pikemen better. They Pwn Cavalry, require no resources and still upgrade into Riflemen.

 

[PickledDictator]

Horseman in my experience trash Immortals. Even if Darius spams Immortals I find that I can carve right through them.

They are simply too powerful. I don't use them on Pangea but like them on continents to cleanse and then peacefully expand. Sometimes this is a big continent sometimes not. The bigger the land mass the more overpowered they are.

Sometimes I just refrain from aggressive wars with them, but trash the ai when they attack me. Nothing like an abusive ai suing for peace after I have trashed his army.

 

[cman2010]

I did not use them in my first games but I heard everyone say they are overpowered so I gave them a try on my current game and have to agree I will probibly go back to using swords and archers.