Ok I have played a few games now since the new patch and are scorpions (specially civs with scorpion bonuses) OP now or what? How am I supposed to counter scorps???
You mean all scorpions OP or specific civ’s one OP?
I dunno, they all kinda feel OP now but some more than others…
Here is how to counter mass scorpions?
- Mass onagers
- Britons longbows
- Raid and separate the scorpions from defense then jump with cavalry
- bombard canons
- Use staggerred formations
- Dont go archers/cav archers when you see mass scorpions
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I think guard towers can be added when your xbow mass facing scorpions, though it seems not very optimal.
Guard tower too expensive and the oppo can add a few rams you cant fight back.
Capped rams and siege rams are pretty deadly vs skorps too once the get to reach them.
Agree but I’ll add
Siege ram: preferably garrisoned with Champions. They get increased speed from being Garrsioned can one shot Scorpions. And even if they get killed by melee units they can still deliver the Champions within melee range. Problem is you need to spec into champion but on DM this becomes a lot more viable
Elite Magyar hussar: Besides being Created in castle they are a better Hussar that Deal 22 damage to siege…Halbs will not be able to kill the Magyar hussar Fast enough to protect the Scorpions and once the scorpions are dead the halbs are vunerable.
Garrisoned ram bonus still work with any infantry, even with militia. So you don’t need to tech into Champion to make rams work.
Hmm this whole garrisoned ram idea might just work. I’ll give it a go.
Yes ive tried the ram spam vs ballista elephant spam multiple times it works
Siege elephants also work great with siege engineers.
Small numbers of cavalry wrecks scorps, same as always. Especially high armored ones like Paladin vs which Scorps already do something like 2 damage if it’s a “missed shot”.