Delbruck wrote:Other than English longbows - who outstoots them? Most foot armies, other than longbow types, do not have much firepower (especially against armored). In combat against longbows they will a POA advantage in both impact and melee. Mounted bows can't compete with them in shooting. And their mounted crossbows are now more effective. They appear to be a very good army in V2. A couple of German pike BG's wouldn't hurt also.
Hal
Everyone (on foot) outshoot them. 1.5 dice to 1 at even factors. So let's say you put a BG of Saparabara in front of them and all you do is shoot. A BG of 8 Saparabara will throw out 6 dice hitting on 5's, so averaging 2 hits. The Danes would put out 4 dice hitting on 5's so averaging 1.5 hits, thus the Saparabara are hitting more often. Nothing earth shattering, BUT look at the points disparity. You're going to be hit by more dice SOMEWHERE purely on overlaps. On Impact you are even on factors, but down on dice. IF you manage to get through the shooting and impact without disrupting you're THEN advantaged. If you're disrupted your advantage disappears.
Against Longbows they are hitting 3 times on average, and STILL cost less. IF you manage to impact without being disrupted then you're advantaged on impact but down on dice.
In both cases while you may be at an advantage once you're in melee, you are so outnumbered points wise that you are possibly going to be overlapped OR hit in the flank by other segments of the army... remembering that you have compulsory knoghts.
I love the Danes. I wanted to build the. In V1. It's a viable army, but it's not going to be kicking arse and taking names. It will be a middle ranker (I believe)
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