Bach Viet/Strategic Overview

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At sea, the Bach Viet are a faction par excellence, being capable of creating some slow-moving but powerful warships, being:

  • Wing Barque - the fastest warship. Stronger than a Galley, but has a low min range, and a low max range. but more powerful attack.
  • Swooper - Light ramming warship, meant for use as a close-range assault unit.
  • Stomach Striker - pure melee. Very strong and fast, but low attack speed.
  • Tower Barque - Powerful siege ship, upgrade of Stomach Striker. Its only weakness is that it has no min range, making it vulnerable to ramming warships. Even War Boats can be parked next to it to cause maximum damage.

These ships, especially the Tower Barque, are often very powerful, but slow, thus making the Bach Viet fleet (whose elements are also shared with Choson) highly dangerous, especially on the high seas. On land, however, it is another matter. While the Bach Viet do have access to Swordsmen, they don't have access to Guardsmen, leaving them somewhat deficient especially in late game infantry slogs. Nevertheless, they do have several tricks up their sleeves. The first is the use of mercenaries. The Bach Viet obtain the use of Man units, as well as Dravidian units which too are shared with India. The second one is the use of Shamans and Sword Leapers, who are capable of enhancing and boosting the performance of your armies in combat.

Of mercenaries....

In [3], Bach Viet is able to establish the kingdom of Van Lang. Naturally, this means several things.

  • 2 governments - Tribal Confederacy, Monarch - must be researched.
  • Units are upgrades of Miao units - resulting in the following:
    • Van Lang Champion - slow-moving but powerful melee. Most likely replaces Miao cavalry
    • Van Lang Warrior
    • Van Lang Phalanx [sic] - most likely is a replacement for Miao Warriors
    • Van Lang Crossbowmen - replces Miao crossbowmen.

Miao units thus must be a fraction of the strength of these warriors.

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Faction summary[edit | edit source]

  • Acquire 8 Supply Centres OR
  • Acquire 8 Iron Ore-producing regions.
  • Secondary tasks:
    • Forge an alliance with the Phoenicians to obtain a Tribute bonus of 300.


Strategic Overview
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