I am not going to quote everyone, i will just answer a few points here:
- regarding use ransack in attemp to reduce the number of different units used.
all choices should be made on cost/perfromance basis, even with ransack, it is still cost effect tive to use opris for siege most of the time. alternatives of ransack, such as boyar and cav combat, gives you much better improvement in general.
- regarding one makes more infantry than opris.
that does not mean i should be using infantry for siege. the reason one makes a particulart type of unit is because that unit is needed in the battle field against the the enemy troop that it counters - you dont just mass infantry when opp is massing artillery for example. if you managing spending correctly, and you are matched with a equal skilled opponent, i dont see you should have 50 strelets + 30 muskts running around battlefield have nothing else to kill but a fort.
- regarding LC counter opris.
*LI counter halbs,
*Canons counter halb,
*Gunpowder HI counter halbs,
*Hit and run LC counter halbs,
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the list of units that counters halbs is MUCH MUCH bigger than that counters opris In the case of LC spam, personally i'd say infantry covered vet.grenadiers or just straight out falcs are the best choice.