Dragoons rule

[Col. Tavington]

I've been playing for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say its a great game, though a bit frustrating at first.

After losing the first couple of games trying to defend, I found a winning strategy with an all-out attack using nothing but dragoons. Always attack and never defend. It works better with veteran soldiers, faster promotions and get formation as soon as possible.

Also a small colony with 3 or 4 close cities is the way to go, so that the dragoons can cover the entire combat area from any city.

This was my last game with San Martin at conquistador difficulty.

 

[Desert-Fox]

Welcome to forums. I agree that dragoons are the best field attacking units and if you wage war against your king then you have most of them. But in some circumstances you need soldiers to defend your main city where king lands your troops. And some cannons to retake a city when king manages to capture it.

The best ofcourse is that you never let landed troops attack you but if RNG has bad mood then you need something for that.

 

[UWHabs]

Sometimes I find soldiers are better in a battle than dragoons, when you get the combat bonus for attacking in forests/hills, as well as defending in cities (when they try to go in amphibiously). A mix is useful, but yes, a stack of dragoons are pretty powerful, especially when upgraded.

 

[Flak509]

Sometimes I find soldiers are better in a battle than dragoons, when you get the combat bonus for attacking in forests/hills, as well as defending in cities (when they try to go in amphibiously). A mix is useful, but yes, a stack of dragoons are pretty powerful, especially when upgraded.

Id have to agree with that, i mainly use Soldiers/militia to defend my cities with dragoons there to counter-attack enemies attacking the city. But in the woods and hills i use soldiers to hunt them down.

Mostly my armies are made up of criminals, servants, free colonist's and re-educated natives. A militia army and i never take to sea warfare. Often in Colonization 1 id have many frigates to defeat the royalists at sea but not here.

The best strategy ive found is also to not make my colony on the closest shore to the highseas. If i can make the royalists walk across land and thin out their stacks helps alot.

I recently played on the northwest passage and made my colony around the Great lakes and when the royalists landed in new england they had a long march and the royalists that landed in canada didnt even make it thru as they got taken out by my apache allies.