The Papal list is only one step behind the rest of the Italians in SOA- all those dodgy average Condottiere who cost a fortune and don't even look good, with a few miserable crossbows & spears... However, no one has yet nominated the Picts- a mass of unprotected medium spears, a combination not ...

Please don't just add your own details as a reply to this post. Please copy and paste this list and add your details to it at the appropriate place (alphabetical sequence). Also, please keep these instructions in the post. Thanks 76mm / Moscow, Russia Amaz_Ed / Stafford, England Amenofi64/ Alba, Ita...

Early Mediaeval Scots in Britain Not exactly a 'killer' army, but can be surprisingly successful- I've beaten HYW English, those Early Mediaeval Germans, and even French Ordonnance (an army I've now met 5 times out of 20-odd SoA games- surely a candidate for 'most popular'?). Even when you lose, you...

Certainly some sort of ranking system would be fun, if only to see how you yourself compare to other people. Since Slitherine seems to keep track of your results in off-line battles against the AI (I don't remember giving my permission for that data to be made public...), it should be perfectly able...

Another suggestion is the concept of an 'aggression level' (as I believe was used in DBA/DBM TT army lists). High aggression level armies would include Mongols, Alexander's Macedonians, Early Galatians etc, who tended to do their fighting in other peoples' countries. Low aggression states would be t...

Thanks for that, Tim- I think I've always been suspicious of MF archers because they're not my favourite heavy infantry, but I may give them a go now. I've occasionally used mixed spear/crossbow battlegroups, which you find in the odd list (Late Medieval Danish, Richard I Crusader); they seem to be ...

Too right it's not accurate- I only lost once v the AI (that was playing the English at Agincourt)- I could never get my head round how to use MF archers. None of mine ever seem to generate enough firepower in the 2 or 3 turns before they're hit by shock troops & run away. I've tried interspersi...

Wandering over to the 'Rankings' heading the other day, I noticed, somewhat to my surprise, that I was ranked 126th, with 64 wins out of 69 games, and no draws, which is all very flattering, I'm sure. As I've only played about 12 competitive games against human opponents, I assume that victories aga...