Rams and Garrison

[vanz]

Hello, newb here .

Han is my favorite faction recently. I'm usually start the game with turtling and slow development, but AI always break my defense within 20 minutes. Especially when they started to using rams. What units can destroy rams quickly?

 

Also, I still wondering about garrison and fire power.  Does ranged units like archers and crosbowmen have advantage over melee units when they are inside a building, ships, and siege tower? Or all units just share same fire power based on their counts? 

Edited Wednesday at 02:01 by vanz

[Gurken Khan]

Hi @vanz, welcome to the forums.

Any units with blades will obliterate rams, in dire need use women (daggers); swarming them also keeps them from reaching their targets. To get started you can lower the difficulty of the AIs or set their behavior so they won't crash your base.

All garrisoned soldiers add the same amount of arrows.

[vanz]

Thanks for the reply. Since all garissoned soldiers add same fire power, now I think it's better to place melee units inside a building since they are greater in HP.

[Gurken Khan]

I don't know why you would want more HP inside a building. Note that most buildings don't fire arrows. I sometimes use them to warp my ranged units to the far side (garrison, set rally point on the other side, release) so they don't get torn to pieces by enemy melee, or just to save wounded units (threshold set to 50%).

If you have any more questions people here usually give good answers. There's also plenty of guides (text & vid) to build order, eco(nomy), strategy etc.

[vanz]

I meant for defensive building like Forts and Towers. My only purpose is to increase their fire. When the building almost destroyed, the units inside it will come out. So, I think melee soldiers can buy more time than squishy rangers. I know turtling is a lame strategy. However, I'm still opened for more tips and tricks. 

[Gurken Khan]

40 minutes ago, vanz said:

I think melee soldiers can buy more time than squishy rangers

Jein (yes + no). You'll want an army composition that can beat your enemy, and for that you need dps (damage per second). Spears and pikes are good against cav and for holding enemy melee; if you have only those they'll get shot up by the enemy's dps dealers. Inversely you can snipe their dps dealers with yours (by default they attack the closest units).

[I'll now report you to the mod team for not being a spammer so your noob post limit gets lifted.]

[Itms]

18 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

[I'll now report you to the mod team for not being a spammer so your noob post limit gets lifted.]

Thanks but that's not needed to do it manually. The account limitations are lifted after enough content is posted.  Welcome @vanz!

[vanz]

Hello. Thanks all. 

[Gurken Khan]

1 hour ago, Itms said:

The account limitations are lifted after enough content is posted.

The limit is lifted when the limit is reached??? Anyway, was there a change? I remember a number of new members being stopped cold when posting too often (five posts in three days?)...

[Itms]

There is a "rate limiting" to avoid spam, but newcomers don't have a maximum number of posts. Once they post enough (in quantity, but not too fast), they obtain normal limitations.