The irony of streltsi is that they're a good unit in a lot of ways (Anti-large, armor piercing shots, credible melee combatant), it's just that they're in an akward position where they aren't really good for dealing with your nominal threats demons, skaven and norscans don't really have armor, unless something has gone catastrophically wrong you're not going to be fighting empire and by the time you are dealing with Scrag (who might have some up armored troops by that point) you probably have Iceguard and they will wreck them much better. I was having some success with hit and run tactics and peeling off enemy units, but again, the ranged units just couldn't get enemy units off the field.Īs an aside, I kinda thought Stretlsi were somewhat pointless as Kislev due to who you typically fought and what your needs are but they are such an incredible gamechanger if you can get them to join a Cathayan caravan. The slingers just don't do enough damage and none of the units will hold for more than a couple of seconds. Your infantry just have to hold while the AoE does it's work Plague catapults will do some work and can be available with food shenanigans early. Your infantry will never match up with theirs. Am I nuts, or is that army truly unbeatable unless I bring in a second stack or something? I've been building a skavenslave army with a 40-60 mix of melee and ranged, because I've seen comments that clanrats aren't worth the investment. It's a 20 man stack with pretty beefy troops and no matter what I do, I cannot beat that army.

The problem is Itza rolls south after 5 or 6 turns and stomps me.

I'm trying to polish my Skaven skills with a Skrolk campaign on hard difficulty in WH2.

Mortal empires map side by side