Fighting dogs. Application and protection. (Rome: Total War)

2 Vladir
You can sleep well, you haven't revealed a single secret :-) Flanks and rear are a self-evident weakness of the troops, and all of them! Therefore, I never focus on this. I assume that your enemy is not a fool and is attentive, and therefore he will meet your dogs in the front. So in this case, the dogs on the phalanx will die. And the heavy infantry will tear them apart. But whom they can beat, I described above. You think wrong in general, you proceed from the fact that you do what you want, and the enemy is stupid. This does not happen, not only will the enemy confront you, so he will also pull you, enter from the flanks and rear, arrange an ambush and pull your troops there. So don't worry, everything you've told me is nothing new to me.

And also proceed from the fact that the enemy has the same number of units as yours, and if you throw a detachment of dogs and cavalry on heavy infantry, then think that now in this area the ratio of 2 to 1 units means that somewhere the enemy has a free unit, maybe he is already beating your troops in the rear? ;-)

I mean my fighting techniques.
I usually use it kada the battle is in full swing. and everything that I described above, I did. and not in one battle. and always (or almost always) worked. it's just that I often change tactics. sometimes I take dogs sometimes this slot is better to score with onagrams.
but you're right. it is much easier to play against AI than against a real apponent. the truth of AI is not always predictable and illogical.

for me dogs are not a unit, it's easy to fight off them, they are hired for a long time and are not controllable

The fact that they are hired for a long time is a big disadvantage. But in certain situations, dogs are irreplaceable. They can reach horse archers faster than any of the lightest cavalry (otherwise, they will most likely have to chase them all over the map, and the dogs are guaranteed to get them, and to my mind, horse archers do not run away from the dogs - which is a plus). Basically for this I use them. If I see that the enemy has a lot of horse-drawn shooters, then first, with the help of the dogs, I knock out the horse-drawn shooters.

And another plus for the dogs is that they have no morality. They always fight to the last.

Dogs are simply irreplaceable in the fight against arrows, are more agile and smaller in size than the rest of the warriors.
At the same time, the same archers are the main weapon against dogs. At long distances you wet the dogs and that's it.

Dogs are weak, especially if they are without the General, even three detachments of Dogs will be frightened by the great enemy army. Especially dogs will be afraid of the Cavalry. Or you just kill dogs at long distances with archers.

Still, the doggie squad is useful. At the beginning of the branch, they correctly noted that these cathounds are very effective against chariots. I constantly use them against barbarian chariots. Once the dogs even bitten the British commander. And panic among the enemy shooters is very useful. And if they are still pumped in battles with rebels, then they have no price. Two or three detachments in gold and they can already be launched directly into the enemy's ranks, and the dog breeders immediately taken to the rear as soon as they let the dogs down.

+ they also do an excellent job with any hoplites :)
Another method that was not mentioned is SEDIMENTARY TECHNIQUE!))) Dogs, as a rule, crowd together and make my task easier)

you also need to learn to defend against my Frosya))))))))))))))

I still don't believe it.

Here is how it was. My small Rebel unit was attacked by an enemy unit with a squad of trained dogs. I had a single cavalry unit, but the retreat option was disabled. It was a pity for the cavalry, since it was necessary for victory. But it was desirable to keep the dogs out of the infantry. On veri hard I did not indulge myself with illusions, especially since I had lost two battles because of the panic of the troops, and the defeat for the rebels in my version of RTW is the complete disappearance of the army.

I had a detachment of peasants. So I decided to feed them to the dogs. Putting my army a little deeper, from the start I sent the peasants running around, and in the end, they ended up behind the dogs, who, as always, walked behind. Served to eat, Pedigri bastard. The peasants attacked the dogs, and I began to manage the rest of the troops. After a while, I glanced in that direction and was amazed. The peasants soaked all the dogs and most of the dog handlers. At the same time, 88 of them remained.

I was intrigued and repeated the battle. Now I watched carefully as the collective farmers methodically hacked the dogs. The same outcome, though now there are 81 peasant snouts left.

Looked at export_descr_unit. They have no bonuses against each other. But dogs are much, much cooler in parameters. Moreover, those dogs had one experience and improvement in weapons (take the void, give it experience and one unit of weapon - here's a peasant for you).

This battle, or a strange exception, or the peasants deal with the dogs with less casualties than the average and even heavy infantry.

History: the presence of packs of dogs are not satisfied for any reason

Etiology: lure guards of buildings, parking lots and mad tranny

Pathogenesis: attacks, bites, barking, fleas, stench, dog shit on the streets, rats scattered debris from the containers ruptured and cats other animals

Means: isoniazid (produced by "Akrikhin", "Biosynthesis", "Tatkhimfarmpreparaty", "Rozpharm", etc.), anti-tuberculosis drug, tablets of 0.3 g, tasteless and odorless or with a bitter taste, depending from the filler used in production. Cost ~ 60 rubles. for 100 tablets, in theory it is sold by prescription, in practice - without it. Not available in every pharmacy, it is possible to find in the so-called. "social pharmacies", because the drug is included in the list of vital ones due to the large number of prisoners in the Russian Federation and the spread of tuberculosis as a result. Also available at online pharmacies.

As a traditional medicine, the drug is known as dog sugar.

Dose: 8-10 tablets per individual

Bait: depending on the degree of feeding of the shaggy patient, in ascending order - soy or chicken sausage, sausages, liver sausages, minced meat, Pedigree bags of 15 rubles each.

Preparation methods:

1. Crush the tablets with a bottle, pour the resulting powder into the cuts of the bait, or into the holes squeezed out in the bait with a tube, or mix with minced meat, you can use it immediately, the shelf life is limited by the shelf life of the bait.
When using this method, it is possible for the product to spill and reduce its effectiveness down to zero!

2. Break the tablets in half, press into the bait, let the tablets sour until they become gruel, apply after 2-3 hours. The shelf life is limited by the period of flow of the product onto the surface of the resulting yummy.

3. Buy liver sausage, the main qualities of which during treatment are softness and indestructibility from sticking pills, as well as strong attractiveness for flea pets. Cut the sausage into rings 1.5-2 cm wide, stick the tablets entirely into the sausage, crush and let it brew for several hours to soften the tablets. For harder and more convenient treats to use, keep the stuffed dish in the refrigerator. It is this method that is the most simple, saving time and materials.

Methods of application:

1. Find a flock and feed it to the target at the rate of 1 individual - 1 tasty treat, distract the leaders after eating with "dummies" - pieces of bait without medicinal filling.

2. In case of impossibility of targeted feeding, spread out in the habitats of dogs, inaccessible to children and other creatures - behind containers of garbage cans and in other places as appropriate.

Action: begins to act approximately 2-3 hours after ingestion, paralysis of the respiratory muscles occurs, treatment is accompanied by the release of foam from the mouth, a howl is possible throughout Ivanovskaya. Eternal calmness occurs on average in 4-5 hours, in some cases a longer period is possible.

Interaction with medicinal products: well absorbed when interacting with antiemetic drugs (metaclopramide, cerucal) at a dosage of 1 tablet for 1 tasty, prevents the patient from avoiding treatment by regurgitation.

Side effects: due to the unpredictability of the patient's choice of the place of his own resting place, it is difficult to dispose of corpses, which in summer is accompanied by a characteristic cadaveric smell. In the presence of observation of insane old women, the targeted entry of the drug into the body is complicated; to avoid this effect, it is recommended to introduce the drug into the body in the early morning, at 5-6 hours.

Prognosis: subject to the dosage and method of application, favorable in all cases

Phalanx counters dogs, and sometimes without loss at all.
you aggro them with cavalry, you run through a phalanx (or better two, standing close) and that's it.

I fight with dogs like this: when they overtake my units, then I turn on the "hold position" mode - that's it, the shawarma is ready :)