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Sailors
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:38 pm
by ABridgeTooFar
Does anyone use them?
Would they be effective attached to a riverine naval force?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:43 pm
by Hobbes
They would not help a naval force, they help speed up river crossing in a stack.
Cheers, Chris
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:39 am
by nerod
What differences are there between sailors and marines in the gameplay?
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:56 am
by Hobbes
None that I know of.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:40 am
by Henry D.
Marines have overall better stats and therefore make for better fighters (akin to US regular army rgts.), while sailors are slightly cheaper and available in slightly larger numbers.
I tend to use them both in equal numbers, just for flavor...
Regards, Henry
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:07 pm
by McNaughton
It comes down to affordability and space management. While Sailors surely are cheaper, and provide pontaneer ability for the stack they are a part of, they do not provide as much to the division as would a regiment of marines when you take combat statistics into account.
Given that you have 17 spaces in a division to devote to units, it is more space effective to use marines, but cost effective to use sailors.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:38 pm
by Henry D.
McNaughton wrote:It comes down to affordability and space management. While Sailors surely are cheaper, and provide pontaneer ability for the stack they are a part of, they do not provide as much to the division as would a regiment of marines when you take combat statistics into account.
Given that you have 17 spaces in a division to devote to units, it is more space effective to use marines, but cost effective to use sailors.
I wouldn't even call sailors more cost effective, they are only about 1.000$ cheaper per unit than marines, while the letter provide a much bigger bang for the additional bucks. As long as they are available, marines are always the better option, IMHO.
Yet still, I'm a sucker for having "a little bit of everything" recruitment-wise, I even build those crappy two-regiments-brigades with one militia in them, so a couple of sailors every now and then are a must for me...
Regards, Henry