Statistics
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Swordsman
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Cost per troop
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300
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Crusader
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Cost per troop
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400
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Special abilities:
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• Double attack
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Swordsmen and Crusaders are level 4 creatures of Castle. They can be recruited from Barracks.
"Well armed and armored, swordsmen and crusaders are better all-around foot soldiers than their pikemen companions. Crusaders deliver two blows per attack." RoE manual
Heroes with a specialty
- Catherine the Knight and
- Sorsha the Knight have swordsmen as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any swordsmen or crusaders for each level attained after 4th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
- Roland the Knight's specialty is bugged so it affects crusaders only.
Tactics and info
(This section contains a general opinion over the subject!)
Both are relatively slow troops, but especially Crusaders with their double strike have high capability of doing damage, being able to compete with level 5 and even level 6 units in terms of raw damage per unit. It's recommended to use crusaders to cripple lower tier enemy units, being sure to kill a good part of the stack, or take advantage of certain situation to kill some of the enemy's essential troops.
See also: