The elephants remind me, camelry also punches above its price when fighting cavalry. If I know I'm going against a cavalry heavy army and I have the option to take a lot of camelry, I tend to do so. Ideally you'd want your own cavalry not taking the camelry penalty while the enemy does but even if t...

When I move unit into town in Medieval Beta patch I get this. medievalbug.jpg Seems like the UV map gets completely messed up. There are roof tile texturing on the walls and wall texturing on the roofs, the windows etc details are completely out of scale. There's no transparency effect of any kind. ...

I don't know the exact mechanics but as far as I can tell is goes something like this: Generals are automatically assigned between unit purchase phase and the final deployment phase. One general is automatically assigned to the non-light infantry force, two are assigned to non-light cavalry at each ...

Here are some specific questions. What are the main roles of each of these different types of units in a cav engagement: 1. Foot lights... 2. Horse lights... 3. Cav archers... 4. Cav melee... 5. Lancers... Exposing light foot(1) and cavalry(2) to enemy cavalry early on is usually not great idea unl...

In my experience the best counter to a cavalry army is your own 3:1 or 2:1 mix army of average bow cavalry with decent shock cavalry. The bow cavalry can be substituted with foot missiles but it makes it a bit harder to keep everything organized (especially if your cavalry is of evading sort). When ...

Thanks The Nubian raw light javelinmen is a peculiar units since average light javelinmen has been the lowest cost and performance light unit with the sole exception of Seleucid levy skirmishers up until now. Is there some particular event or anecdote that explains this unit's presence in the list,...

The rest of the campaign went far more smoothly. Battle 3 - Scots vs English - Win 13/47 (final casualties) - Patched rough terrain favoured the enemy longbows. After a rough start the spears managed to hold their ground and my 3 mounted MAA performed admirably, wreaking havoc among the enemy longbo...

Third times the charm. This time the map had way smaller side forests with barely any impassable areas (which led me to take only couple Ribauds this time). The enemy also had only 4 dismounted MAA, which made the now longbow heavy frontline far more susceptible to crossbow fire than in the previous...

That is literally what I did and got the 36/57 timeout. Not to be rude, but I really doubt that RNG alone can account for an 8 turn and 30 rout % difference. For force comp, I maxed out on massed missile units and ribauds, and only then grabbed a few maa. I immediately dismounted all of my maa, tho...

I don't normally do single player but I did the first 2 missions at difficulty 3 out of curiosity. First one was kinda messy but won it 45-15; mostly by spreading out enough to open up gaps, luring spears into the rough and counter charging with knights, etc etc. Mission 2 I won on turn 16 42-5; re...

This is just absurd... For the first time ever in non-epic battle I lost to the nightfall at 36 to 57 rout percentages advantage... I didn't even pay any attention to the turn limit because I wasn't stalling any more than what was absolutely required to avoid charging dismounted knights over trenche...

Ok, this campaign is just the most cursed thing I have ever experienced in my life (not in the game, in general)... I got a good result of 11/44 final losses on my 7th try at the first battle (that's more retries than what I have needed in campaigns over the last six years). The whole battle was som...

In reality the actual replacement points are averaged between the "expected" 15% losses and the number required to replace the actual losses. So excess losses (above 15%) are in fact only half as damaging to future chances as the documentation might lead you to believe. Thanks! So in prac...

There's actually one thing I don't know about the campaign mechanics: if the player losses in battle exceed ~15%, the difficulty is increased (I assume the player points are reduced) but is that increase permanent through the whole campaign or can it improve if you win future battles with less than...

I've played it twice today, both with 100% Men at Arms armies. The first attempt was a disaster. Despite the -2 cohesion test modifier, none of the spear units dropped cohesion on impact, despite several successful charges. Generals died, AI units rallied, I had zero luck and lost 49/24. The second...

It's certainly a pretty unique battle in that the most sensible tactic seems to be pounding heavy spearmen with cavalry. I wonder if there's a way to win it with lower casualties without using any overly gamey techniques though. One thing I considered was dismounting some of the MAA to stick to the...

In my most successful attempt was a pyrrhic victory where my final losses were over 30%, a non-starter for a 10 battle campaign. I know that is the conventional wisdom, but I have never accepted it myself. I often lose a lot of units in winning the first battle, but go onto complete the campaign. I...

I realized that I had never played the French version of HYW campaign and decided to give it a go. Five seconds after hitting Start in the first battle I realised that I actually had played it during the beta, dropped it, and never touched it again (and why I had apparently repressed the memory). Th...

Looks good. I have played the Nubians and some time warp battles and haven't noticed any issues so far.

Great content update with really interesting new lists and units. I didn't notice any issues playing a difficulty 3 game of Christian Nubia vs Axumites. The Axumite list seems especially powerful for the era that it covers. I know I'm in the minority thinking that the loose order Warband is one of t...