I've never been a big builder of Archery type units. I may build an archer or two early on and slap as many "City Defense" promotions on them as I can. Depending on what my axeman/Swordsman hordes may be facing in terms of counteroffensives, I may give one a Combat promotion and a shock promotion and send them to be the first line of defense in my advancing stack.
A quick look at the Native American Civ of course got me thinking if there was a way to leverage the protective trait and UB (Along with barracks) to head up some kind of early "Archer Rush". So they start with City Defense and Drill one. The Barracks and Totem give them another two promotions out of the gate. I played around giving some of them Combat/Cover....Drill II/Cover....Drill II/Drill III...all of which gave me rather poor odds in trying to topple the tiny size one barbarian city placed on a hill and occupied by 3 archers. I had 12 of my Super Archers parked outside and decided to see if I could whittle away. I went with the drill III units first even though they had the lowest odds....something like .9%. Bam! First defender is knocked down to .5/3. Next defender knocked down to .8/3. My success didn't necessarily continue and I scrapped the plan but the first rolls got me to thinking....how does first strike work?
For simplicity sake, if I have an archer getting 2-5 first strikes and I am going against an axeman with no immunity to first strikes....am I gaurenteed to do some damage to him no matter how miniscule the odds of my victory are? Does the combat percentage take your first strikes into account?
A quick look at the Native American Civ of course got me thinking if there was a way to leverage the protective trait and UB (Along with barracks) to head up some kind of early "Archer Rush". So they start with City Defense and Drill one. The Barracks and Totem give them another two promotions out of the gate. I played around giving some of them Combat/Cover....Drill II/Cover....Drill II/Drill III...all of which gave me rather poor odds in trying to topple the tiny size one barbarian city placed on a hill and occupied by 3 archers. I had 12 of my Super Archers parked outside and decided to see if I could whittle away. I went with the drill III units first even though they had the lowest odds....something like .9%. Bam! First defender is knocked down to .5/3. Next defender knocked down to .8/3. My success didn't necessarily continue and I scrapped the plan but the first rolls got me to thinking....how does first strike work?
For simplicity sake, if I have an archer getting 2-5 first strikes and I am going against an axeman with no immunity to first strikes....am I gaurenteed to do some damage to him no matter how miniscule the odds of my victory are? Does the combat percentage take your first strikes into account?
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