Feeling excited about Mictlan

[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by aldin:
Tremendous response General, just what I was hoping for. Mind if I try to answer your questions(in the hope of learning more from you)?

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Originally posted by General Tacticus:
Here are a few challenge :
- how will you defeat an army with 60 longbowmen and 40 heavy infantry (15+ prot).
- how will you deal with big tramplers ? defense won't help...
- how will you deal with heavy losses ?
- how will you deal with hostile magic ?
- when your enemies are ready to cast, say, Burden of Time, will you be able to dispel it ?

Bowmen/HI and Tramplers seem to have the same solution to me - get into the rear. Eagle warriors on the flanks seems the best bet here, probably set back just a bit from the Sun warriors in the middle to make the SW the more obvious missile target. Is there (yes, still a n00b) an early fear-causing blood spell that would be useful to spook tramplers? That's be nice too.

Heavy losses are a big problem. I guess Mictlan really needs to find an alternate troop source so that something other that it's sacred units take the main damage. That dovetails nicely with solving the HI/Bowmen or Trampler issue as well.

Hostile magic... feh! I think I'm finally getting it. Mictlan MUST develop a secondary source of halfway decent cannon fodder or it'll lose too many sacred troops to be viable.

As for Burden of Time, well, it sucks. At least Mictlan has S2 mages. Ulm is REALLY screwed by BoT...

~Aldin

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Right. Mictlan national troops can be used as fodder at the start of the game, a few feathered warriors will make sure they don't rout too quickly... but they simply are not strong enough to face the middle game as anything more than walking, single-use shields. As long as you plan for the transition with summons or good indies, you'll be okay. But do prepare. And make sure to find a way to do decent research, or you'll fell the pain also.

Your setup gave you a very good start, and you will need it to overcome your weaknesses in other areas...

P.S. to Nagot Gick Fel : I stand corrected...