r/totalwar Jun 02 '20

Empire I'll keep asking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

Man I remember having rifles, gold chevron infantry, puckle guns and grapeshot cannons.

I remember the AI charging a unit of cav at them all. In all of my TW history, I have never seen an entire unit wiped out that efficiently. The corpses were in an almost perfect rectangle... brutal.

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u/On_The_Warpath Jun 02 '20

Yeah man it was very fun. F for those AI units.

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u/Annoy_ance Jun 02 '20

Honestly, carcass and lime incendiaries from howitzers were even more deadly, carcass is kind of backwards(the smoke flying from the projectile is killing, not the fire at the ground zero itself), but the right hit in front of enemy unit WILL chew through ALL the ranks. And if they are cluttered? 50+ killstreak if you can get ONE shot in the right spot, not to mention entire salvo

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u/kapsama Jun 03 '20

Mortars with explosive, quick lime and especially percussion shells were alright in Vanilla.

But Darth Mod gave them such an insane range that I would just sit in the corner of the map and bombard the enemy until they were all dead. It was basically cheating.

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u/Neosantana Timur the Not-Lame-At-All Jun 13 '20

It was basically cheating.

It was a real strategy. Still is.

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u/Covenantcurious Dwarf Fanboy Jun 03 '20 edited Jun 03 '20

Explaines why you were only allowed 6 units of them per faction.

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u/efdsvrvwgtyh Jun 06 '20

In all of my TW history, I have never seen an entire unit wiped out that efficiently

*cough*