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AMtwis
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posted February 25, 2004 06:33 PM |
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Cavalry vs Infantry
Shouldn't it be that Cavalry has a slight advantage against Infantry?? Post every thougt, please. Even negative ones. I mean, The cavalry is on the back of a creature, getting more power and speed.
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Stormrage
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posted February 27, 2004 04:42 PM |
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Shouldn't it be that Cavalry has a slight advantage against Infantry?? Post every thougt, please. Even negative ones. I mean, The cavalry is on the back of a creature, getting more power and speed.
You have a point. But then again, logically large stacks of infantry creatures kills the cavalry quite quickly before they can deliver certainly much damage. This reminds me of something though...
Mounted creatures already has a quite good advantage against infantry since they can engage in battle more quicker than infantry.
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AMtwis
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posted February 27, 2004 05:36 PM |
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You have a point. But then again, logically large stacks of infantry creatures kills the cavalry quite quickly before they can deliver certainly much damage. This reminds me of something though...
Mounted creatures already has a quite good advantage against infantry since they can engage in battle more quicker than infantry.
Yeah, but then, the program would take that in mind when "rolling the dice".
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gorman
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posted February 27, 2004 05:46 PM |
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You'd also think it'd be harder to hit a cavalry since it's riding the creature while the infantry is walking on th ground. So therefore, the cavalry would also have the "upper" hand so to speak right?
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AMtwis
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posted February 27, 2004 06:32 PM |
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You'd also think it'd be harder to hit a cavalry since it's riding the creature while the infantry is walking on th ground. So therefore, the cavalry would also have the "upper" hand so to speak right?
Yes, That's something like my thought. Should it be hard to make it that way in, say homm5?
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UncleJR
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posted February 28, 2004 12:01 AM |
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However
If the infantry has pikes or halberds, they have the tendency to get the cavalry unseated and then the horseman is at a decided disadvantage.
That's in the real world.
In the world of HOMM, the cavalry gets the charging bonus and absolutely devastates the infantry.
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fnord
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posted February 28, 2004 07:40 AM |
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If the infantry has pikes or halberds, they have the tendency to get the cavalry unseated and then the horseman is at a decided disadvantage.
That's in the real world.
In the world of HOMM, the cavalry gets the charging bonus and absolutely devastates the infantry.
Yes, but a little undocumented feature of H3 is that Pikemen (and I think Halberdiers too) ignore the charging bonus of Champions.
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Celfious
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posted February 28, 2004 07:48 AM |
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either all of this or a negative damage when fighting other ones ona beast.
Thats the same as a bonus when attacking everyone not on a beast.
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AMtwis
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posted February 28, 2004 10:12 AM |
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If the infantry has pikes or halberds, they have the tendency to get the cavalry unseated and then the horseman is at a decided disadvantage.
That's in the real world.
In the world of HOMM, the cavalry gets the charging bonus and absolutely devastates the infantry.
Yes, but is it possible to do a thing like that in homm5? It would be nice to see.
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gorman
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posted February 28, 2004 02:47 PM |
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then if it were possible that the Cavalry could be "unseated" would that then make them like ordinary swordsmen? It would be even more interesting if the now, bare-backed horse could attack as well as the unseated rider.
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AMtwis
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posted February 28, 2004 02:49 PM |
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then if it were possible that the Cavalry could be "unseated" would that then make them like ordinary swordsmen? It would be even more interesting if the now, bare-backed horse could attack as well as the unseated rider.
Hmm.. That sounds good  But then, Should all unseated cavalry units become the same or should the be their on teams "swordsmen"??
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Orion
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posted March 31, 2004 02:42 PM |
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if you you should be able to dimount the rider and then have the horse etc attack it previous rider or at least become a ai unit on the field attacking who ever get closest but mounted units should only get advantages when not on a horse they should be a lot weaker think about it to ride the horse they would need lighter and therefore weaker weapons and armor
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AMtwis
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posted March 31, 2004 03:48 PM |
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if you you should be able to dimount the rider and then have the horse etc attack it previous rider or at least become a ai unit on the field attacking who ever get closest but mounted units should only get advantages when not on a horse they should be a lot weaker think about it to ride the horse they would need lighter and therefore weaker weapons and armor
mm, that sounds pretty good. but Orion, don't you have a comma or period button?
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doomnezeu
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posted March 31, 2004 04:41 PM |
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Well, in many games I have seen so far there were some infantery units that were given bonuses when facing cavalery.
Remembar AoE? Pikemen were nasty when fighting war elephants and other cavalery.
You could implement stuff like this, let's say:
Pikeman
Damage *-*
+* bonus when fighting Champions
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Lord_Woock
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posted March 31, 2004 05:42 PM |
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I think the pikemen/halberdiers vs cavaliers/champions bonus is already there without WOG.
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AMtwis
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posted March 31, 2004 07:23 PM |
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I think the pikemen/halberdiers vs cavaliers/champions bonus is already there without WOG.
Yes, I think Fnord said that. But what about the other towns? that's just castle. What about, say necropolis. they have a rider, black/dread knight, but they don't have a "spearman". I think that if this idea will work, every town must have some sort of "spearman"
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Vadskye91
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posted March 31, 2004 07:39 PM |
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Actually, it all depends on the weapons used. If the horsemen use lances or the like, then they have a decided advantage. However, if the infantry have the spears, they can kill the horse, and a horseman is as useless on the ground as a Swordsman would be on a Warg. If they both use close weapons (ie swords, axes) then the infantry would win by sheer force of numbers. It's easier to give a guy a sword and tell him to kill than to give him a horse and sturrups and riding training and so on and tell him to kill. Overall, infantry tend to have the advantage over cavalry.
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Greek_god_su...
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posted March 31, 2004 08:18 PM |
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every town must have some sort of "spearman"
At least dungeon has troglodytes...
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Lord_Woock
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posted March 31, 2004 08:45 PM |
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And Rampart has centaurs. Woo!
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posted April 07, 2004 01:23 AM |
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Humph! Inferno has Imps....oh goody....
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