Questions about PD and other

sum1lost · #1 June 11th, 2007, 06:03 PM

PD seems to be useful as a wall to protect artillery. Playing as ulm allowed me to hammer with arbalests and earth mages while the PD held them in place.

HoneyBadger · #2 June 11th, 2007, 08:12 PM

The best thing about PD is the morale consideration. More troops = better morale, which can literally be a life-saver.

HoneyBadger · #3 June 11th, 2007, 08:14 PM

Oh, and if you're playing Niefelheim, you're going to want to aim for a PD of 50. That's 25 militia-jotuns and 15 spear-jotuns, which is decent, but not massive, PD, believe it or not.

Sombre · #4 June 11th, 2007, 08:23 PM

Uh,.. I don't think you ever want to /aim/ for a PD of 50. Especially for the Jotunhiems, whose PD is actually one of the worst.

And PD doesn't always help with morale either, since there are often crappy militia troops in there that just run off and get killed en masse causing your casualty percentage to be higher in total and risky a rout.

HoneyBadger · #5 June 11th, 2007, 08:45 PM

I disagree. Yes, they have crappy PD, but that crappy PD consists of a handful of very tough troops-the problem with their PD is that you can't rely on it by itself, you have to augment it. Slap a Niefel Jarl and maybe a handful of support-troops, and it's really, really hard to beat.

It's almost 1200 gold in troops that never need to eat, never need a leader, and never get afflictions. It's not something you want in every single province, but having 50 PD and harnessing it in a few key provinces can be really powerful.

You don't have much to worry about the Jarl routing because of the PD, with his high morale and ability to bless himself.