How to Counter Horse Archers in a Land Battle (World Cup Strategy Tips)

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @FightMeTotalWar
    @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +27

    Should this be the meta to counter horse archers

    • @schean0078
      @schean0078 Рік тому +1

      One of the metas

    • @juliuswill9517
      @juliuswill9517 Рік тому +1

      Hey there I really love your videos even though I am kind of a noob in rome multiplayer. The one thing I can't get behind is which keys do you press to get this "times 4 arrow" which allows you to move your army forward and even rotate them? Would be much appreciated :)

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      its holding you mouse on one unit while u got you whole army selected and drag it around, for turning it you need to hold control while you do that

    • @juliuswill9517
      @juliuswill9517 Рік тому

      @@FightMeTotalWar Awesome! Thank you very much:)

    • @HistoricalWeapons
      @HistoricalWeapons Рік тому +1

      Historically the horse archers can simply not choose to fight this battle and raid ur supply lines instead

  • @boogiewoogie565
    @boogiewoogie565 Рік тому +32

    could you make more videos like these where you’re fighting? they help a lot more than replays of fights

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +2

      Gotcha!!

    • @ellis_or7484
      @ellis_or7484 Рік тому +2

      I agree, this was really helpful and my favourite video of yours so far!

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      @@ellis_or7484 Great to hear that man! More to come!

  • @xViolentDeathx
    @xViolentDeathx Рік тому +7

    I appreciate that you made these kind of videos with the right amount of balance commentary with insight and strategy. I do hope you could break down more on how to organize formation for land battle

  • @BadCow94
    @BadCow94 Рік тому +7

    never played rome 2 competitive but im guessing his mistake here was sending the cav archers early on to just shoot a few arrows front facing you army instead of saving those arrows for the back of your army when busy on melee

  • @ThePs3Gangster
    @ThePs3Gangster Рік тому +4

    It's really impressive that you pulled that one off, I always get desperate against missile cavalry and don't know how to counter them

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      ye same thing for me in the beginning

    • @filipperwejnis3566
      @filipperwejnis3566 Рік тому +2

      slingers and archers are only counter

    • @ProfibobWot
      @ProfibobWot Рік тому +1

      Scorps murder horses, never ballusta, always scorps vs them
      Also mass archers

  • @AN-nt3uv
    @AN-nt3uv Рік тому +12

    I find this type of battle and opponent very hard to deal with. You do it very well. The additional problem is, that his cavalry units are also the faster ones in this game and your opponent could have done even more skirmish and just run you out. Really tough, but you made it, great choice of units and tactics.

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +2

      Thanks AN ye its hard! horse archers factions normally dominate greeks in land battle so made it hard

  • @CrossTheGoat
    @CrossTheGoat Рік тому +1

    Crassus said just wait till they ran out of ammo

  • @nahh9494
    @nahh9494 Рік тому

    As new player of total war in general, i learn a lot from your video

  • @majintab7710
    @majintab7710 Рік тому +3

    lovely video, and counter against the horse archers, however you could substitute a couple of swords for thureos spears, this way they will force the horse archers to keep more distance, and then they will kill cavalry faster that the thorax swords

  • @TheEmperorBubbles
    @TheEmperorBubbles Рік тому +6

    Very well done FightMe! Fun to watch.

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому

      Great tourney your hosting!

    • @rtwmoder
      @rtwmoder Рік тому

      I wonder why max 8 missile cav!!!
      I mean it's ok for nomadic faction like Cimmeria
      But For Parthia, Armenia and Bakteria, it unbalanced the game
      This was not the case with previous major league rules
      Max 4 missile cav....

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      i dont know man

  • @howitzer551
    @howitzer551 Рік тому +1

    Hey, you can't really do it with Syracuse, but just a heads-up horse archers use their own entities for mounts. Medium and above horse archers are the same speed as other cavalry of the same weight class, but light and very light are slower. I am going to forget but very light missile horse is like run speed 10 (I believe speed is 10/9/8 for VL/L/M missile horses) and very light melee horse is 12. This and the fact that Javelin Cavalry uses melee horse mounts means with good micro they can usually ward off horse archers with decent micro unless you are way outnumbered. Any of the cheap very light or light javelin cavalry with 41 missile damage is super dangerous to horse archers if you can micro them. At further ranges you can bait shots with your speed and if they get too close while they can shoot back you can just shadow them while pump bonus vs cav javelins into them and they will die quicker in that instance. I do not advise people to just sacrifice the jav cav but unless you are against a Nomad pro you can really frustrate them as they can't shoot what they want with their horse archers.

  • @fmogaddam
    @fmogaddam Рік тому +5

    thanks for all efforts i really love this kind of battle videos with analyze and commentary 😄 if it's possible to you please do it for other total war games too like Medieval too

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому

      Oeh maybe in the future but for now I will stick to rome 2

  • @gilanthegrey
    @gilanthegrey Рік тому +1

    My solution against horse archer spam is this:
    Slingers ignore frontline, and ward the flanks with their long range, put in blocky formation so they pivot faster. i let them trade with my slingers, and use fake cav charges to make the ranged battle go in favour of the slingers

  • @edwarda9403
    @edwarda9403 Рік тому +1

    Against horse it's a win to have spear with armor maxed in square with archers/slingers massed inside. If your archers and slingers have higher range and damage you'll win every time

  • @milniar
    @milniar 3 місяці тому

    seems like a really cool video! shame I was looking for strategies against horse archers irl. Might still be able to learn from this though so ill keep watching

    • @milniar
      @milniar 3 місяці тому

      I have no idea what happened but it was in fact a cool video. nice job on the win!

  • @mateuszkubiak4434
    @mateuszkubiak4434 Рік тому +1

    If you hate playing against enemy who often spam horse archers on battelfield and you can choose faction just pick Royal Scythia.

  • @JasonnDim
    @JasonnDim Рік тому +2

    You should fire with archers against horse archers...you should use pikemen because they can do a lot of damage to infantry and cavalry unites.

  • @cristianroth8524
    @cristianroth8524 Рік тому

    I'm so fed up with them, that I always have at least 4 units of artillery in every army.

  • @Blooticus
    @Blooticus Рік тому

    How the hell are you moving your units around all fancy like that? Look fun

  • @syahyaa4705
    @syahyaa4705 Рік тому +1

    Isn't it better to bring Thorax spearmen to cover your flanks?

  • @lucadaniels7253
    @lucadaniels7253 Рік тому +1

    Good stuff

  • @themekahippie991
    @themekahippie991 Рік тому +1

    Have you had any luck using peltasts against horse archers? They're my go-to counter to AI HA because they tend to just sit them in perfect javelin range. Is the range difference enough for a human with decent micro to exploit?

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому

      Its a little bit hard against human, but it could work a little yes

  • @icheko2498
    @icheko2498 Рік тому +1

    Scorpions will decimate horse units in just 3-4 shots. Also I've noticed archers or better slingers are the best counter.

  • @noscope7809
    @noscope7809 Рік тому

    You should upload more battles of you playing man

  • @lucianodotchi3504
    @lucianodotchi3504 Рік тому

    We need more content

  • @Sergio-uw2ci
    @Sergio-uw2ci Рік тому

    Thanks for the video I’m living on this

  • @USRAMIPLAYZ
    @USRAMIPLAYZ Рік тому

    Horse archers are so annoying to play against. Thanks for the advice, this will help a lot.

  • @marketableskills5374
    @marketableskills5374 Рік тому

    damn horse archers! Great tips homie!

  • @nizari116
    @nizari116 Рік тому +1

    Stupid question, but as a veteran of total war series (since medieval 1), and playing rome 2 since it came out, I still don't know how to move the whole army AND keep formation. I know how to move all units forward with 1 button but they wont keep their places like you did on 1:21. Also how on earth do I do it like on 2:01? How to move a single unit and keep the formation automatically? I only know right click, hold the button and move mouse. 3:07 WHAT ON EARTH?????? How do you do that??

    • @Casperdcvd
      @Casperdcvd 2 місяці тому

      Group everything and lock it, using ctrl+G I believe

  • @s.a.7011
    @s.a.7011 Рік тому +2

    Do you know where we can watch tournament battles

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +4

      Yes at curved bubbles youtube channel and twitch

    • @s.a.7011
      @s.a.7011 Рік тому +1

      @@FightMeTotalWar Thank you

  • @hypervenom3141
    @hypervenom3141 Рік тому +1

    Cimmeria just sucks, I think the only viable build for them is full kite with lots of archer, 3-4 HA (most land battle have the max 3-4 HA rules) and a few infantry just to protect the archer

  • @darrianaldridge1057
    @darrianaldridge1057 Рік тому +1

    How come you didn’t use any pela from your thorax

  • @drixmcdrixerson
    @drixmcdrixerson Рік тому

    This should be interesting. I always have trouble with Thracian horse archers.

  • @peterfrans1719
    @peterfrans1719 Рік тому

    Great battle

  • @percy3993
    @percy3993 Рік тому

    Why not mir thorax hoplites. Like two or three instead of thorax swords. They could chill in the back and end every cavalry

  • @abhinandanbanerjee5471
    @abhinandanbanerjee5471 Рік тому

    Man, you bring me back to how we were at 15-18. I personally felt that the Thorax Pike was an honorable thing to do as otherwise your comp was too far ahead of his.
    Lmao kidding. You knew this would be a roflstomp for you.

  • @delducasabaudo4285
    @delducasabaudo4285 Рік тому +1

    Why your opponents has didnt use the hoplites walls? huge mistake here by him. good battle💪

  • @vincentparo3158
    @vincentparo3158 Рік тому

    Great content

  • @ngocanhnguyenho6788
    @ngocanhnguyenho6788 Рік тому

    Enemy horse archers dont know how to shoot u from your back.

  • @jonaswielandt6731
    @jonaswielandt6731 Рік тому

    What button you use to turn a unit that quickly while you drag a unit with your mouse?

  • @ahoura2881
    @ahoura2881 Рік тому +1

    Plz make more video about land battle:)

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      gotcha!

    • @ahoura2881
      @ahoura2881 Рік тому

      Thanks man I really have problem in land battle and IDK what kind of army to choose

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +1

      oeh understandable, i have 3 land battle videos so if you check the armies used there you can get some insiration

    • @ahoura2881
      @ahoura2881 Рік тому

      @@FightMeTotalWar thanks :D

  • @mrbombastic6478
    @mrbombastic6478 Рік тому

    What are. Your graphics settings?

  • @sajaddvr2191
    @sajaddvr2191 25 днів тому

    Fighting with an enemy with all cavalry units in an open land is a big mistake! A big example is rome, egainst parthian and ssassanids that they lost many battles against persian...

  • @awanishphilosophy5368
    @awanishphilosophy5368 Рік тому

    I am not able to see mountable artillery for any faction in siege defense please help me

  • @mdstmouse7
    @mdstmouse7 Рік тому

    i wouldnt bring tarantine against horse archers. probably just slingers and noob box. i hate horse archers, cuz my micro sucks. the other option is a rush build

  • @theannoyinghistorian1812
    @theannoyinghistorian1812 Рік тому +1

    Ok, this is not a fleet review. But a land battle is very cool. #Day22ofaskingforafleetreviev.
    I have been asking for almost half a year already, pliz make review 😢😢😢

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому

      Hahaha Thanks bro #day22 = half year?!?! Hahah

    • @theannoyinghistorian1812
      @theannoyinghistorian1812 Рік тому

      @@FightMeTotalWar Well, I was only counting the days where I was making a comment. My first comment was in June.
      Essentially yes. It is half a year. #Day23ofaskingforafleetreview

  • @rtwmoder
    @rtwmoder Рік тому +1

    Ohhhh 8 missile cav rule is trash
    It's broken the game
    Bruh why do you use shitizen😂
    And Cimmeria have bad army with useless hoplite and not enough archer
    Against Cimmeria you don't need that much melee inf

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому +2

      ye but i thought if i bring more cav they would get destroyed by their horse archers and if more missles more chance of him getting in to them

  • @hisenburger2
    @hisenburger2 9 місяців тому

    You played better than crassus

  • @gusfring8451
    @gusfring8451 Рік тому

    I love being Parthia, deploying 1200 boys and getting 2200 kills with horse archers. With that in mind, delete the video. >:(

  • @olegd.8941
    @olegd.8941 Рік тому

    Horrible video quality

  • @Decebal_of_the_Getae
    @Decebal_of_the_Getae Рік тому

    did you say Hermes is the best land battle player?

  • @abhinandanbanerjee5471
    @abhinandanbanerjee5471 Рік тому

    Your micro also sucks. Your opponent used his horse archers like blobs which was a stupid idea

    • @FightMeTotalWar
      @FightMeTotalWar  Рік тому

      Yea I did my best haha

    • @Justheory11b
      @Justheory11b Рік тому

      Wow. Dick comment. Who are you playing in the tourney?

    • @abhinandanbanerjee5471
      @abhinandanbanerjee5471 Рік тому

      @@Justheory11b I'm someone whose beaten Legend and Volound. I've not played Total War in 5 years but I remember how its worked. A content creator who plays still agrees with me and knows that Cimmeria is an ubercrap faction. You don't have to stick up for him. Watch him play the game and get sick of it in 2 years like all of us got.

  • @rwaters9709
    @rwaters9709 Рік тому

    Good info. Subbed !!! Don't miss out - 'promo sm'!!!