Re: (TFT) Targeting Horses and their Riders

[Sgt Hulka <hulkasgt@yahoo.com>]

I think you just demonstrate why massed cavalry didn't work for the French at Crecy and Agincourt.
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On Fri, 8/23/13, Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: (TFT) Targeting Horses and their Riders
 To: tft@brainiac.com
 Date: Friday, August 23, 2013, 11:02 AM
 
 Just a question:
 
 When you guys play with men on horseback, how do you handle
 attacks against them?
 
 I've been treating them as separate targets, you get to
 choose which to attack. While this ultimately works out fine
 it does feel a little weird, especially for missile
 attacks.
 
 In that mass combat (100 troops aside) battle I did, a
 common strategy (realistic to an extent but a bit too
 effective) was to have your archers shoot at the horses who
 were less armored (no shields, for one) than their riders
 and relatively easy to kill with a mass of arrows. This
 resulted in cavalry not lasting very long.
 
 It did create some interesting strategy in charges, though.
 Whether to target the knight (and maybe take out a powerful
 unit) or target the horse (and basically just make that unit
 ineffective for a turn and less mobile for the rest) could
 be a hard choice.
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