Light Infantry

[evilbaronatreides]

Does anyone use light infantry? If so what are their best uses.

[Sardauker-Kirov]

They make good decoys and Pretty effective when using Rock, Because for example a Tank cant kill the units with their firepower, And even if they try to overrun them, The units will scatter. So Infantry is good use for other annoying Anti tank infantry :D

[gunner154]

they some of the most versatile units in the game. with an excellent speed and unique firepower, storm a group of light infantry and sending them into enemy bases. though that irritating mino or flame tank takes you out, they CAN'T take out legions of them. wreak havoc on infantry rock as they win almost every infantry battle.

[Timenn]

Light infantery is only the waste of destroyed buildings ;D

[exatreide]

Elite atreides infantry are the bestest.

[Duncan]

atreides light infantary is the best  ::)

[Sardauker-Kirov]

LoL.... Yeah cuz they make so funny sounds when they die, If the Hark's or the "Snakes" kill them. :D

I think they need to add that Barracks train feature to all houses.

[Timenn]

Ligth infantery never get to elite, they are already dead then...

[Ligic_Tha_Master]

Yes they do...

[nemafakei]

"Ligth infantery never get to elite, they are already dead then"

Don't know about yours, but mine do.

[Duncan]

sometimes mine infantary to go to elite  8)

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Depends. If you throw your inf Units like Junk right in middle of a battle  , they get wasted.

[Dezertfish]

so how would you suggest keeping them alive long enough to become elite.

please answer Some  more questions from a newbie

Also, how can I speed up the promotion process?

do I kill more units, shoot more shots, live more encounters; what?

(Snipers are easier to get promoted, so I can get them to elite)

If I am Atreides, can I use Vehicles or subhouse units to enhance my production buildings like I can do with my inf?

Thanx

[Dezertfish]

Also

I know that level 2 snipers get regeneration and level 3 get stealth, but what about the other units?

my elite mongooses don't seem any stronger than level zero.

Also, is there such a thing as a vateran scout? infiltrator? projector that projects veteran units?

[Timenn]

[glow=red,2,0]Yes, I wonder too. Isn't there a file where you can view it all?[/glow]

[Ligic_Tha_Master]

Dezertfish:

You kill units to speed it up.

No you can't add veterancy with vehicles.

Units always get stronger by more experience.

Of course a projector can become an elite, it has a machine gun to shoot infantry, thus gaining experience.

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Some Crates contains experience points (People hardly talk about crates in the game) if you play Skirmish.

I had once a level three deviator with that and it was cool like hell!

[House_Corrino]

Is the sniper the only unit that gets a truly "special" elite ability?  Other units should too.

[Mr_Hangman]

This topic is kind of old but I also want to know how anyone could get a level 3 light infantry. The only way I can think of is to have a weird opponent who makes hundreds of scouts. What if they tend to use vehicles all the time?

[Black_Emperor]

flame throwers are the easiest infantry to rank up, just find a huge group of enemy infantry...make sure no snipers, then roast em!

Quote the Flamethrower :Your turn ta burn!

[Dezertfish]

The only way I can ever seem to get light infantry/kindjals to survive is to have large groups of them. Then the veterancy is spread out though and useless for drill seargants.

[Black_Emperor]

shoot wrecked vehicles

[Dezertfish]

Some Crates contains experience points (People hardly talk about crates in the game) if you play Skirmish.

I had once a level three deviator with that and it was cool like hell!

As atreides, I once found a deviator in a crate, got it promoted to level two with crates, got it stealthed with crates, then used it to confuse my enemy when half of his assault tanks got destroyed and the rest attacked his base.;D Boy that was fun, until my other enemy appeared in my base with a squadron of NIABs :'(

[Black_Emperor]

i think we should all Burn down the guild palace and set fire 2 all of the tlaxiau

[Chaos_Storm]

Light infantry en masse are wonderful against Light Vehicles (that can't run over) and most other infantry (e.g. don't use against lots of Mortar/Sardaukar/Flamethrowers/Chemical Troopers). It's surprising how vehicles can succomb to a hail of sub-machinegun bullets. Light infantry are cheap and very quick to build so casualties can easily be replaced (if you remember to do so - hotkeying a Barracks and using rally points can help enormously as this makes all units coming out of that Barracks automatically respond to the hotkey).

But training them up to Elite is quite hard as they die so fast if you're not careful. According to the rules.txt file, a single Light Infantry soldier would have to kill 10 enemy infantry or 7 Light vehicles to reach Lv3. Knowing that it is almost impossible to make a single Light Infantry soldier do this without losing him, you have to rely on groups of infantry, meaning lots more to kill for a single Lv3 to turn up. I suppose you could group Lv1 and Lv2 soldiers separately when they get their promotion and train them up as a group later. It is easy to get single promotions of soldiers but going from Lv2 to Lv3 takes much longer.

What I want to know is why is the Harkonnen Light infantry are so much better than the Atreides Light infantry? Atreides has the more expensive counterpart, yet a single Harkonnen Light infantry soldier could probably take on 2 Atreides soldiers and survive. Harkonnen soldiers finish shooting faster, can move almost immediately after shooting (time to aim the rifle away) and reload immediately (that rifle goes back up to shoot again as soon as it goes down). Atreides soldiers, like Sardaukar, empty a magazine, fit another one, then are ready to move whilst they rearm the rifle to shoot again a short while later. Why such difference?