best all round army

[ravenflight]

Hi All,

I'm so disappointed in FoG:AM v2 that I'm seriously considering throwing it in completely.

So, what I want to build is a well balanced army. Something that will go 'ok' in comps. Not a killer army, but not a slob either.

My eye was turned to the Huguenot French, and Louis XIV.

How are they as 'well rounded'? Too elite?

I've also thought of the Polish with the Winged Hussars, just because I think they look sexy.

[stecal]

Later TYW German seems to be the tourney favorite in the USA

[MatteoPasi]

I've also thought of the Polish with the Winged Hussars.

I pl<y them and I enjoy but .......... I've never seen others players fielding Polish ....... guess why

[alasdair2204]

Hi

My opinion only, though please understand I have no understanding of anything involving foot as it is well known I only use mounted, I enjoyed the Hugenot and have won a competition or two with it, Foot wise the most consistant player is Ben Jones and he regularly comes in the top three with one of the french normally TYW French or Early Louis XIV French, the most common army on the UK circuit in open competition is the Later TYW German, mainly I think because it can be anything, you can start it as standard infantry army to playing a silly version like mine which involves the minimum 2 P&S units and 24 bases of Cuirassiers and anywhere in between, that said these figures would be the same as the french with only flag changes anyway. As to my army of choice in opens anyway is Later Imperial Austrian. That said I'm using the Army of Dagestan at a competion this weekend , should be interesting

cheers

Alasdair

[Three]

I've also thought of the Polish with the Winged Hussars.

I pl<y them and I enjoy but .......... I've never seen others players fielding Polish ....... guess why

I use them a lot, at the moment they are the only army I've got enough of to make 800pts, but I think that the Hussars are way too expensive for how they perform. I get duffed over by cheaper cavalry all the time

[kevinj]

As a starter a Thirty Years War army is probably the way to go. As Alasdair has said, the Germans allow you a lot of flexibility in design, so you can easily change style, but also there's a lot of interchangeability between nations, so you could easily switch to something else. Plus there are a lot of figure ranges available, or you can often pick up stuff on eBay.

[timmy1]

The morphing aspect of Alasdair's choice allows you to change the flag, paint another 4 generals and have almost anything 30YW (other than 1629-32 Swedes), at a push you can even do Early Louis XIV.

[timmy1]

The morphing aspect of Alasdair's choice allows you to change the flag, paint another 4 generals and have almost anything 30YW (other than 1629-32 Swedes), at a push you can even do Early Louis XIV.

[urbanbunny1]

30 years war germans are my favourite.

they can morph into any of the 30 years war period armies if you want, but you get a bit of everything and they can hold their own in a comp.

I've taken mine to a few comps and done OK.

[nickdives]

Late Germans are good, Polish crap for the cost, as the post above said unless they are very very lucky in the initial charge they get stuffed in the following melee leading me to believe that historical paintings of them with pistols, maces, axes, bows, a couple of different types of sword the big lance etc are wrong!

[MatteoPasi]

At the opposite: as they where at -- in melee they had to try almost everything (pistols, maces, axes, bows, a couple of different types of sword the big lance etc ì) without succeding ah ah ah