#Shogun 2 avatar conquest upgrade#

What about Shogun? Do you have to reform? Do you have to pull back at least a certain distance before you can charge? What about wedge formation, in medieval 2 it was almost worthless, what about Shogun? As a general rule, should you use wedge formation or not? Also, in medieval 2, if engaged the enemy's spears, then hit them in the back with your cav, no more spears. I've heard that it was different in rome and you could just hit, retreat, and hit again.

If you didn't pull back far enough the charge wouldn't work either. You couldn't just hit the enemy, pull back and then instantly charge again, you had to pull them back a certain distance, let them reform, and then hit again. In medieval 2, cav were a bit tough to use. Any ideas why? Should I use swords as my main line instead? If so, which ones? I use the lowest level bow units for my archers. I use Yari Samurai as my flank and rear guards. I would use Yari Ashigaru as the main line, with the basic sword infantry as my reserves. I've tried to adapt this strategy to shogun 2 and it didn't work very well. I would keep my extra few units of spears behind to counter any cav that might try and outflank my main force.

Additionally, if my cav became free, they would also perform flanking attacks. Meanwhile, my spears would pin down their front line while I would deploy my reserve units of normal infantry to either reinforce my main line or to flank the enemy. When the battle started, my cav would usually attack their cav. Along the flanks of the main part of my army are 1 or 2 units of high quality spears on either side and sometimes at my rear as well. Behind them were my main army along with my general. Next were spears set up in spear wall formation. They would fall back behind my line when the enemy got close. I would have my archers in the front cause I quickly learned that they can do some serious damage when firing directly on the enemy, they also can prevent the enemy from hitting your melee troops by acting as a meat shield. While I would experiment with other techniques and would not always use this, I found that I would often rely on it.

#Shogun 2 avatar conquest upgrade#

How important are the upgrades in Shogun 2? Are veteran units worth their extra cost? or does it depend on what time of unit it is? If so, can you please give me some guidelines on what troops to upgrade and stuff like that? I would often give armor/weapon upgrades to one very important unit (like my only cav unit), but most of the time I would simply ignore the upgrades. Often, it was better to get an additional inexpensive unit (like peasant spears) than it was to upgrade the average unit. In Medieval 2, I didn't ever really see the value of upgrades, during the course of a fight, tactics, skill, and terrain made a huge difference while the usefulness of upgrades was questionable. (This is for online avatar conquest play) However I have sense decided that I will try and come to understand the game mechanics before I accuse them of being broken. I became discouraged and decided that I didn't like the game. I quickly found that the tactics that worked so well on Medieval 2 don't work at all on Shogun 2. I was estatic and immediatly tried to play the game online. I got this game for my birthday a few days ago.