GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Genoese Crossbowman cavalry-screen plan
Genoese Crossbowman: Genoese Crossbowmen turn a ranged group into a strong answer to cavalry, including durable cavalry and elephant units. Their bonus matters most when a protected mass can keep firing through the engagement.
Overview
Genoese Crossbowman: Genoese Crossbowmen turn a ranged group into a strong answer to cavalry, including durable cavalry and elephant units. Their bonus matters most when a protected mass can keep firing through the engagement.
Plan and execution
Keep Genoese Crossbowmen behind infantry or another screen and focus the same mounted target as it approaches. Use them to protect Villagers, siege, or a slow ranged army from cavalry charges; add a separate unit line for targets that do not offer the cavalry matchup.
Risks and adaptation
They remain vulnerable to the usual threats against foot archers, including Skirmishers and siege. Do not chase fast units into open ground or expect the cavalry bonus to make the formation self-sufficient.
- Focus
- Anti-cavalry ranged formation
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies