Best / Most Useful Mercenaries?

Which Mercenaries Are Best/Most Useful

highlander
10
5%
manchu
20
10%
fusilier
10
5%
ninja
1
1%
hackpapells
3
2%
jaeger
46
23%
mameluke
55
28%
landsknecht
0
No votes
swiss pikemen
9
5%
Li'l Bombards
5
3%
stradiot
1
1%
elmeti
11
6%
ronin
6
3%
black rider
22
11%
 
Total votes: 199

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Hey!
i tried to post most of the mercenaries in the poll option.. do you think which is best? and why?
i think elmeti/mamelukes are most useful ones here. since they have pretty high hp which is really good
and jaegers.. which is best skirm..
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Here I'm assuming you're talking about mercenaries to be made out of saloon/monastery.

Jaegars. Most cost effective mercenary imo.

Also, swiss pikes are just very very good. Mongo won vs Sam in china vs french MU using jaegers spam and swiss pikes.

If it has to be a mercenary card, probably black riders/mamelukes/Highlanders are best. Highlanders are game winning card for Spain.
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here. i talk about both card and saloon/monastery i mean as a unit which is best/most useful
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deleted_user wrote:here. i talk about both card and saloon/monastery i mean as a unit which is best/most useful
Not all civs get all mercenaries shipment.

Ignoring this fact, Swiss pikes and Jaegers imo the the best. Swiss pikes more cost effective than black riders. Black riders are best to ship, not to make. Swiss and Jaegers are best to make and best to ship.

My logic about swiss pikemen being stronger than black riders in terms of cost effectiveness maybe wrong. But I''ve saw swiss pikeman often game changing when used against myself.
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Post by yurashic »

Swiss pikemen - 3 pikemen for cost of 2.

Little bombards - they counter all units and have 4 sec reload which is op for cannons.

Mamelukes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z9tclncJNc

Elmeti - they live where Garja and Marco1698 live, they can't be bad.
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Elmeti with Brit consulate saved my ass when I aged up against japan age 2 ashi yumi cbow daimyo mass. Urumi shipment and 3 mahouts shipment helped too :)
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Ronin if popped right in an army.
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Mamelouk is the mercenary with the most impact and probably most usefull if otto aren't ban from tournament.
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Post by Marco1698 »

I love black riders but mams are the most useful. But it's not correct to say they are on every situation. Depends from situation, for example sometimes you need black riders sometimes Swiss pikeman sometimes ronin ecc. Almost of the cases ye mams better
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Post by Marco1698 »

Oh one time I had like 45 crossbowman and I wasted all of them vs hackapells. They have not got same mams hp but their attack is 121 if I am not wrong and it is op
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Isn't op becouse hp for cav is most important (for tanking).
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marco1698 wrote:Oh one time I had like 45 crossbowman and I wasted all of them vs hackapells. They have not got same mams hp but their attack is 121 if I am not wrong and it is op
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Post by Metis »

I only play treaty, so mercenaries are usually too weak (compared to imperial) units to be of much use. However, there are exceptions.

If a civilization doesn't have a unit and the mercenaries can provide it, they are sometimes worth considering. For instance, Fusiliers, being very fast musketeers, are really good to include in a German push as with Germany you don't get musketeers. Occasionally I will make a few Elmeti with Ports if faced, say, with massed Brit longbows because Port Hussars are on the weak side. I once made ten Ronin as Otts playing versus France and when I wiped out a Gendarme spam my opponent didn't make another one all game.

For the most part, mercs take up too much pop space. However, with Spain their amazing unctioned attack makes up for it. Highlanders and Hackapels, especially, have enormous attack with Spain.
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Post by yurashic »

metis wrote:I only play treaty, so mercenaries are usually too weak (compared to imperial) units to be of much use. However, there are exceptions.

If a civilization doesn''t have a unit and the mercenaries can provide it, they are sometimes worth considering. For instance, Fusiliers, being very fast musketeers, are really good to include in a German push as with Germany you don''t get musketeers. Occasionally I will make a few Elmeti with Ports if faced, say, with massed Brit longbows because Port Hussars are on the weak side. I once made ten Ronin as Otts playing versus France and when I wiped out a Gendarme spam my opponent didn''t make another one all game.

For the most part, mercs take up too much pop space. However, with Spain their amazing unctioned attack makes up for it. Highlanders and Hackapels, especially, have enormous attack with Spain.
There is no single mercenary that is worth using in treaty. They are bad in age 4 already except for the best, let alone in age.
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Mams are the best, otherwise jaegers are good and black rider mostly for germans (only goon available). Swiss pikes are handy to raid a tc and so but in fight i fail to see why they would be good, because pike-type units suck in age 3 vs skirm goon cav compositions. They also suck vs musks
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Lil Bombards who doesn't love them
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where is garja
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Aykin Haraka wrote:where is garja

This thread is about Mercs, not Gods.
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Metis wrote:If a civilization doesn't have a unit and the mercenaries can provide it, they are sometimes worth considering.
This is my point exactly, mercs are to cover a civilization's weakness.
For example, as main Dutch (It usually works well with Dutch because you have a constant coin production from banks), I usually prefer to employ mercs like Stradiots, Mamelukes, Black Riders, Elmeti, Highlanders and Fusiliers.
In this way, I can complement my regular army and strenghten it a lot.
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Post by ǝɯɐuɹǝsn »

fusiliers are the one i prefer so far, good against everything and if you up their speed they go as fast as cav lol
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ǝɯɐuɹǝsn wrote:fusiliers are the one i prefer so far, good against everything and if you up their speed they go as fast as cav lol
They are awesome, I love them.
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Fusiliers are ass
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Kaiserklein wrote:Fusiliers are ass
Are they an animal of the horse family, which is typically smaller than a horse and has longer ears and a braying call?
I think you meant awesome @Kaiserklein , you should check your keyboard.
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