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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 7, 2020 12:56:09 GMT
I figured it was more polite to discuss my team here in my own thread rather than to continue to derail the other one linkI'm pinching your idea of the field hospital stoic but I'm going to try and incorporate Joan into it, and as it's infantry based Caesar has to be in it too, so possibly something like this: Inf: Caesar, Barbarossa, Alex, Joan/Peter/Xerxes Cav: Saladdin Arch: Mocte/Nobby Art: Koxinga/Bismarck I seriously doubt I'll be able to carry both Joan & Xerxes all the way, but perhaps one of them... Anyway these are my thoughts at the start but infantry units are the ones I have the least experience with, and decisions will have to be taken along the way based on tactical necessities, so I thought it would be interesting (for me at least!) to see how the actual final lineup compares to these initial ideas. I've given up on Joan, she brings nothing apart from cure master and that's just not enough. Current intention: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nelson, Nobunaga Li Shimin Infantry are too vulnerable to cavalry so I need to be able to deal with them, and the lack of range and mobility is also a challenge, hence Nelson & Nobby. So I upgraded to Industrial last week and this is the team I'm going to try and complete the game with: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nobunaga, Mocte Khalid All are now at level 6 except Nobby & Caesar who will be upgraded asap, and Bismarck at level 5 will be in reserve for when 2 arty are required - although I hope to keep his involvement to a minimum. |
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Post by SolidLight on Sept 7, 2020 14:01:55 GMT
I've given up on Joan, she brings nothing apart from cure master and that's just not enough. Current intention: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nelson, Nobunaga Li Shimin Infantry are too vulnerable to cavalry so I need to be able to deal with them, and the lack of range and mobility is also a challenge, hence Nelson & Nobby. So I upgraded to Industrial last week and this is the team I'm going to try and complete the game with: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nobunaga, Mocte Khalid All are now at level 6 except Nobby & Caesar who will be upgraded asap, and Bismarck at level 5 will be in reserve for when 2 arty are required - although I hope to keep his involvement to a minimum. How has Xerxes worked out for you? Is he viable at all in the endgame? |
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Post by stoic on Sept 7, 2020 15:58:50 GMT
I used to play with some generals with plunder and one good thing about it that you can really balance between success and failure quite for a long time.
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Post by stoic on Sept 7, 2020 16:14:36 GMT
I've given up on Joan, she brings nothing apart from cure master and that's just not enough. Current intention: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nelson, Nobunaga Li Shimin Infantry are too vulnerable to cavalry so I need to be able to deal with them, and the lack of range and mobility is also a challenge, hence Nelson & Nobby. So I upgraded to Industrial last week and this is the team I'm going to try and complete the game with: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nobunaga, Mocte Khalid All are now at level 6 except Nobby & Caesar who will be upgraded asap, and Bismarck at level 5 will be in reserve for when 2 arty are required - although I hope to keep his involvement to a minimum. So, you won't be using Petain, will you? If so, I might be using him instead of upgrading Alex to 6*. |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 7, 2020 19:19:07 GMT
So I upgraded to Industrial last week and this is the team I'm going to try and complete the game with: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nobunaga, Mocte Khalid All are now at level 6 except Nobby & Caesar who will be upgraded asap, and Bismarck at level 5 will be in reserve for when 2 arty are required - although I hope to keep his involvement to a minimum. How has Xerxes worked out for you? Is he viable at all in the endgame? I'll let you know in a few weeks  It'll all depend on how much of a difference plunder makes. When I used him in FFE2 - anti-France Alliance yesterday that was the first time for a while. I think the last time before that was on GN - East India Company for 1*, or somewhere around there. The main reasons being that he loses plunder around level 2 or 3 before regaining it at 6 and you just don't get to use 8 generals all that often, and he's usually only going to fill the 8th slot. So in theory, he should be more useable in the latter stages than mid-game, but it's only a theory right now... |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 7, 2020 19:21:45 GMT
So I upgraded to Industrial last week and this is the team I'm going to try and complete the game with: Caesar, Barbarossa, Richard, Xerxes, Peter Nobunaga, Mocte Khalid All are now at level 6 except Nobby & Caesar who will be upgraded asap, and Bismarck at level 5 will be in reserve for when 2 arty are required - although I hope to keep his involvement to a minimum. So, you won't be using Petain, will you? If so, I might be using him instead of upgrading Alex to 6*. I don't intend to at the moment, so if you want to set a record with 4 new names then go for it! |
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Post by stoic on Sept 14, 2020 10:33:58 GMT
I completed Osaka today. As we know Osaka is a pain in one soft place for various reasons. Besides I don't have generals who are good in this type of missions (Nobunaga, Suleiman, Caesar)... But after some equip/unequip experiments I was able to get Keel boots finally...  |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 14, 2020 12:59:36 GMT
I completed Osaka today. As we know Osaka is a pain in one soft place for various reasons. Besides I don't have generals who are good in this type of missions (Nobunaga, Suleiman, Caesar)... But after some equip/unequip experiments I was able to get Keel boots finally... Well done! Before Vancouver too, I see. Have you done all of the campaigns already? I only have 16 stars in Osaka and I'm at Meiji Restoration 2; my progress is suddenly feeling very sloth-like after your and Kev's recent exploits! |
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Post by stoic on Sept 14, 2020 15:44:48 GMT
I completed Osaka today. As we know Osaka is a pain in one soft place for various reasons. Besides I don't have generals who are good in this type of missions (Nobunaga, Suleiman, Caesar)... But after some equip/unequip experiments I was able to get Keel boots finally... Well done! Before Vancouver too, I see. Have you done all of the campaigns already? I only have 16 stars in Osaka and I'm at Meiji Restoration 2; my progress is suddenly feeling very sloth-like after your and Kev's recent exploits! Yeah, Vancouver is of no interest to me at the moment... As for campaigns, my answer is "no"  Far from it, actually. I only completed Gunpowder age campaigns recently. So, your chances to beat me are relatively high It is a friendly competition after all |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 15, 2020 10:10:24 GMT
Well done! Before Vancouver too, I see. Have you done all of the campaigns already? I only have 16 stars in Osaka and I'm at Meiji Restoration 2; my progress is suddenly feeling very sloth-like after your and Kev's recent exploits! Yeah, Vancouver is of no interest to me at the moment... As for campaigns, my answer is "no" Far from it, actually. I only completed Gunpowder age campaigns recently. So, your chances to beat me are relatively high It is a friendly competition after all Thanks, I feel better now. I don't mind finishing a short while after you but I'd like to keep it to less than a month Of course I had to try Osaka after seeing you'd done it already and now have 29*: that pesky trio of Genghis, Atilla & Suleiman proving to be a very tough nut to crack! |
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Post by stoic on Sept 15, 2020 10:59:09 GMT
Yeah, Vancouver is of no interest to me at the moment... As for campaigns, my answer is "no" Far from it, actually. I only completed Gunpowder age campaigns recently. So, your chances to beat me are relatively high It is a friendly competition after all Thanks, I feel better now. I don't mind finishing a short while after you but I'd like to keep it to less than a month Of course I had to try Osaka after seeing you'd done it already and now have 29*: that pesky trio of Genghis, Atilla & Suleiman proving to be a very tough nut to crack! It always was a tricky mission... I would recommend you to use "triple rumor" strategy - Peter, Richard, Bismarck and Nobunaga. Try to attack them immediately and to place debuffs right from the start. It won't be done after a couple of attempts, of course, but the chance is high that things will go smoothly one day |
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Post by Iron Duke on Sept 15, 2020 22:01:54 GMT
Thanks, I feel better now. I don't mind finishing a short while after you but I'd like to keep it to less than a month Of course I had to try Osaka after seeing you'd done it already and now have 29*: that pesky trio of Genghis, Atilla & Suleiman proving to be a very tough nut to crack! It always was a tricky mission... I would recommend you to use "triple rumor" strategy - Peter, Richard, Bismarck and Nobunaga. Try to attack them immediately and to place debuffs right from the start. It won't be done after a couple of attempts, of course, but the chance is high that things will go smoothly one day I gave it a go but my rumour levels aren't high enough. I did finally manage it with Nobby, Mocte, Khalid & Jhansi though |
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Post by stoic on Sept 16, 2020 5:07:38 GMT
It always was a tricky mission... I would recommend you to use "triple rumor" strategy - Peter, Richard, Bismarck and Nobunaga. Try to attack them immediately and to place debuffs right from the start. It won't be done after a couple of attempts, of course, but the chance is high that things will go smoothly one day I gave it a go but my rumour levels aren't high enough. I did finally manage it with Nobby, Mocte, Khalid & Jhansi though Not an obvious solution, I should admit Anyway, well done! |
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Post by stoic on Sept 18, 2020 8:52:13 GMT
OK, the race goes on I completed choice of the age. Amazingly easy with 2 Artillery commanders Khalid lvl 10 and Heihachiro lvl 8.  |
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Post by SolidLight on Sept 18, 2020 11:47:53 GMT
OK, the race goes on I completed choice of the age. Amazingly easy with 2 Artillery commanders Khalid lvl 10 and Heihachiro lvl 8. Hm. Is a heavy ArtyCom focused team at all viable? Since I’d like to try it out one day with something like Khalid, Heihachiro, Li Shimin, Koxinga and Cleopatra as the core. With several other generals for support purposes. I don’t think it’d work too well until industrial and I’d probably have to use other units until then, but it could be fun. |
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Far from it, actually. I only completed Gunpowder age campaigns recently. So, your chances to beat me are relatively high 
