While of course they're not the end game unit of choice, they always have an application somewhere. If you see a group of heavy charging knights attacking an unprepared infantry set, you can make good use of this unit even if in the end you end up totally sacrificing your pistoliers to give them time to get set and counter the charge. Run them off into some trees and pull them out later to start harassing and pulling away a valuable enemy infantry unit, or charge down and stop an enemy artillery position. The pistoliers should not be your main unit to do damage to an enemy, but as skirmishers, post-victory prisoner takers, or interrupting units they are excellent and having a unit around never hurts, particularly in an auxiliary force. ↓ Weak Against Armour: This unit's attack can hardly punch through armour and is thus wasted on heavily armoured enemies.Ĭlick here to add a strategy! Better than everyone gives them credit for.↑ Very Fast: This unit can run circles around most other units, taunting and harrassing the enemy or evading its missile fire.↑ Vanguard Deployment: This unit can deploy in an expanded deployment area, allowing it to start the battle within striking distance of the enemy - or somewhere unexpected.Most of the young men who survive their time in the Pistolkorps go on to join a Knightly Order and put the skills and scars they have earned to good use as a fully armoured Knight. Here, the nobles learn about horsemanship and war from the Outrider - grizzled veterans paid by the Knights to train their sons. Some spirited young nobles may gather their friends and form regiments of Pistoliers of their own, but most join the ranks of the Pistolkorps, a military organisation funded by the Emperor, the Engineers' School and sponsored by several Knightly Orders. However, the clarion Call-to-Arms pounds strongly in the veins of these youths, and many cannot wait to march to war and prove themselves on the glorious field of combat. Pistoliers are young nobles who are not yet old or experienced enough to test their spurs in battle or join one of the Knightly Orders. 4 Better than everyone gives them credit for.

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