GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Heavy Scorpion protected-lane plan
Heavy Scorpion: Heavy Scorpions can punish slow infantry, archers, and Monks when their bolts travel through a controlled lane. Their minimum range and slow movement make protection and formation placement essential.
Overview
Heavy Scorpion: Heavy Scorpions can punish slow infantry, archers, and Monks when their bolts travel through a controlled lane. Their minimum range and slow movement make protection and formation placement essential.
Plan and execution
Set them behind a screen at a choke or along a route the enemy must cross. Keep the firing line together so shots pass through several targets, and shift the formation if fast units begin to close from the side.
Risks and adaptation
Cavalry and agile melee units can dodge the bolts and reach the Scorpions quickly. Maintain an escort and avoid placing the line where nearby enemies can exploit its minimum range.
- Focus
- Massed siege against slow armies
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies