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What is your favourite unit ??? |
Buccaniers any day mate! |
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Pirates (of course!) yarrrrgh :) |
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5% |
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I'm a lover of both :) |
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I just hate land battles! |
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Kristian95
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: What is your favourite unit ??? |
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Basically you have two types of units in land battles:
Ranged units (buccaniers)
Melee units (pirates & officers)
Which are your favourite ?? Are you a ranged or melee pirate ?? _________________ HaP! Real Pirates hang out there! |
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rupertlittlebear
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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My favorite unit is the Calvary.
Soo tasty.
Just add woods for extra flavor.
Other than that, just love lots of Buccs. Stand off and splatter the opponents. |
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PUNiSHER
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Just ahd to go for Buccaneers here...
I just love it when an enemy unit approaches my pirates, while my buccaneers are hiding in the forest...
And when they get into my firing range...i wipe them out one by one with the buccaneers!
Btw, interesting poll here, "Pollmeister" _________________ "Revenge is not valid emotion, it's an emotional response..." |
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fossaman
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Buccaneers all the way. If I could I would go into battle with just my officers and the rest being buccaneers. I love pinning down the enemy in a bottleneck and wiping them out one by one as they come through. The only problem is that if the enemy closes with you... _________________
Like my fossa? He's a pirate! |
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PrinceScamp
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: |
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basicaly, in battle, i hope to shoot at the enemy the first few turns and hide in the woods, then shoot/slash the enemies up the rest of the time _________________ LORD COMMANDER OF THE PLANK
CULT OF THE POLLMEISTER
CHA CHING!!!
320.9 SCAMP'S STOP
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Kristian95
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:07 am Post subject: |
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PUNiSHER wrote: | Btw, interesting poll here, "Pollmeister" |
Thank you glad you like it _________________ HaP! Real Pirates hang out there! |
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Westley_Roberts
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Although the Buc's Do have the Firepower, you must combine them with the Pirates (Ground pounders) for close quarters defense. Without them, ranged battle would be nullified once the enemy ground pounders reach your Buc's.
My take on liking them both. _________________
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Kristian95
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: |
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I wonder how come the AI often keeps it's units in ranged combat with my buccaneers even though it could close for melee and rout them!! _________________ HaP! Real Pirates hang out there! |
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Dread Pirate Ceranuth
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Bothe the buccaneers stand there all helpless then the enemy approaches the buccaneeers open fire then the pirates flank them wiping out the enemy. |
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Howie
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Mister Poll Meister, my favorite unit is the Buc's mainly because I can just stand up on a hill behind some rocks and blast the advancing enemy. The enemy, being that they are quite stupid keep charging at me and I move back a square and keep blasting them to bits. Then let the pirates finish them off in a flanking attack. _________________
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Kristian95
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:36 am Post subject: |
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I like that tactic too Especially since you are sure to decimate the enemy troops when you use your bucs _________________ HaP! Real Pirates hang out there! |
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PiratesFan
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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You got to give it up for both troops. The Bucaneers are great for picking off armies before they get close but they are too weak to take on the troops coming in especially Cavalry units. So there is advantage to having the Pirates.. The strategy I use, I find them both very useful and my land battles very successful with my strategy. Of course everyone has their own strategy and maybe just bucaneers would work but it would result in more loss of troops if that was possible cause eventually 2 cavalry units will be on top of your troops agains the harder most prosperous cities. |
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logan3333
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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I'll prefer the bucaneers over the pirates and officers, all you got do to is to place the buccaneers in forrest or on a hill, then wait for the enemy, take out their guard and cavalery units and the town is yours. The pirates and officers can cover the flanks and keep the pesky infantry and indian units away. That way I won with 200 Pirates over Havana and Cartagena (500 Soldiers). |
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Kristian95
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:06 am Post subject: |
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logan3333 wrote: | I'll prefer the bucaneers over the pirates and officers, all you got do to is to place the buccaneers in forrest or on a hill, then wait for the enemy, take out their guard and cavalery units and the town is yours. The pirates and officers can cover the flanks and keep the pesky infantry and indian units away. That way I won with 200 Pirates over Havana and Cartagena (500 Soldiers). |
Yup, taking advantage of the terrain is half the victory!! Reminds me of the slaughters I did in the old version, luring the spanish into a swamp and then gunning them down from the forest _________________ HaP! Real Pirates hang out there! |
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rescorla
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: favourite units |
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Gotta be the Bucs! I always put them on the high ground - preferably in the trees and just rain bad news down on the enemy. I always move them to higher terrain. |
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