Slitherine

Has playtest or competition to date revealed certain armies or classes of armies that are very dominant in a competitive sense? Or has the quality of play and the players insight not yet developed to a stage where it is clear what is likely to be best in tough competition play?

Adrian

tamerlane wrote:Has playtest or competition to date revealed certain armies or classes of armies that are very dominant in a competitive sense? Or has the quality of play and the players insight not yet developed to a stage where it is clear what is likely to be best in tough competition play?

Adrian

I´ve played against Late Medieval German, Alexandrian Macedonian, Medieval Irish and Ottoman Turks with my Latin Greece army (Romanian Frank in DBM) and I felt that all armies had more or less an equal chance of winning.

I think flexible armies in the hands of good players have an advantage but I also feel that a poor player with a solid, no-nonsense army (Hoplites, Scots Common) deployed and used historically has more than a reasonable chance of winning. Overall, it seems to be very well balanced.

Julian

Paluy testing so far has singularly failed to find any super armies. I have used 40+ now and would be ahppy tot ake any of them to a comp. What you do need to do is design with a plan in mind and adapt tactics quite widely for the different typs of troops.

Si

It is fair to say there are some armies that are easier to play from outset than others. Looking deeper into that there are armies that are initially easier to win or easier not to lose with initially as well as armies that become more competitive over time.

For example Pike armies are a good starting army, but don't tend to be easy to win with until you've figured them out. Shooty cavalry armies are good to start with, but soon become vulnerable to experienced players.

Fortunately at the moment we are in the early stages of all those army curves - so anything is fair game!

Although I still think some armies are really hard work - Guals, Ancient Britons and Early Germans spring to mind. Sure you can win with them, but not even Simon struggles with the Ancient Britons.