How many obsolete units needed to kill a rifleman?

[The Mongol]

So I'm going for a domination victory and Bismark got enough ancient ruins so his warrior became a rifleman. I've killed everyone else on the continent, but I'm still only at the point where I have knights and longswordsmen. I'm wondering how many units would I need I need to kill the rifleman. All his other units are swordsmen and archers so I'm only worried about the rifleman.

I'm asking because one of the things I noticed was that If the unit Your bombarding is strong enough it won't take any damage.

 

[Iberian]

Build a diplomat and move him onto his square and buy him?

Actually just walk around him to his capital and take it. You win.

 

[morss_4]

So I'm going for a domination victory and Bismark got enough ancient ruins so his warrior became a rifleman. I've killed everyone else on the continent, but I'm still only at the point where I have knights and longswordsmen. I'm wondering how many units would I need I need to kill the rifleman. All his other units are swordsmen and archers so I'm only worried about the rifleman.

I'm asking because one of the things I noticed was that If the unit Your bombarding is strong enough it won't take any damage.

If you have knights and longswordsmen you can kill a rifleman easy. Those units aren't that much weaker than a rifleman.

Bombard it with a couple trebuchets first and you probably won't even lose anything.

 

[duxup]

Find some ruins, get upgraded to a bomber, win!

 

[Ahriman]

Rifleman on open terrain = 25*0.66 = 16.5 strength. Longswordsman = 18 strength.

Its not that hard to win against 1 tech tier ahead.

*2* tiers gets much harder.

 

[The Mongol]

Thanks I'll try it. He got the rifleman back when we all still only had warriors and archers.

 

[Zhahz]

I made a GDR for giggles near the end of one game. Seemed like everything that attacked it did 1 dmg regardless and wore it down. Defintely seen units whiff and do no dmg though.

 

[Kushluk]

Ask Shaka Zulu.

 

[Janig]

let the rifleman cap a city of yours then recap the city immediately while the rifleman is garissoned. I got lucky with a pikeman-rifleman upgrade and conquered 3 capitals before i discovered this

 

[Vandraad]

Or just use a ton of archers all doing range against the Rifleman unit. They will pelt him to death in short order.

 

[w00tm0ng3r]

Get him onto open terrain and then 3 longbowmen can either kill him or take him to 1 hp. Note that's 3 longbowmen attacks, so if you have 2 longbowmen with logistics you can kill him easily. 2 longbowmen attacks and then a knight would also do well.

 

[The Mongol]

I surrounded him with 2 trebs 1 Knight 1 Longswordsmen 1 swordsmen 1 horsemen and 3 horse archers.

The horse archers all hit 0s as i expected, but the trebs hit 5 and 3 then I finished him off with my longsword.

Now I have to take care of all all those huge cities he has from steamrolling other civs with that rifleman in the classical era.