Mod: Warhammer Dwarfs, version 0.92 -- Quickfix

[Humakty]

Speaking of those dwarfs archers, they maybe take the heat a bit too easily. I think you can bypass basic melee units altogether, as the shooters have damn good melee weapons, combined with surprisingly high attack skill. They tend to beat the crap out of indies with no support, twenty of them being able to reliably expand versus anything, well you'll take some hits against knights, if you don't bother buying a prospector.

Flanking a dwarven army can lead to sharp consequences !

[rdonj]

Originally Posted by Humakty

Speaking of those dwarfs archers, they maybe take the heat a bit too easily. I think you can bypass basic melee units altogether, as the shooters have damn good melee weapons, combined with surprisingly high attack skill. They tend to beat the crap out of indies with no support, twenty of them being able to reliably expand versus anything, well you'll take some hits against knights, if you don't bother buying a prospector.

Flanking a dwarven army can lead to sharp consequences !

I wouldn't try this on a player. They're good, but, they still only have 13 protection. And cost 30! resources. All someone has to do to beat them is mass 4 resource short bows.

I'll try moving my crossbows further up and see if that helps any.

[kianduatha]

Originally Posted by rdonj

I wouldn't try this on a player. They're good, but, they still only have 13 protection. And cost 30! resources. All someone has to do to beat them is mass 4 resource short bows.

But then you ambush his shortbow army with some rangers, who can brutalize shortbows--especially when the bowmen are shooting at random flanking miners.

[rdonj]

That is true, up to a point. Rangers are still probably technically archers though, so if you set your shortbows to fire archers, they won't waste quite as much time on the miners. You would probably still need something to deal with the miners though. I think a lot of weirdness with dealing with the flanking miners could be dealt with just by never scripting attack/fire closest on anything that you don't want to set chasing miners down. Use attack rear for your melee units, and probably fire archers for any ranged units you have. The problem though is you can't really just ignore the miners, they're pretty nasty in melee. So you need to have some method of killing them. A thug or two on each flank would probably be sufficient, more or less.