Originally Posted by
Pherion
You were right, I was using them very poorly. But now I pay careful attention to what's going on the battlefield and now I rarely get mass routs or routs at all, and as soon my front line troops receive casualties and are becoming too tired, I pull them back and replace them with the principes. And when those get tired I swap them out as well. I'm constantly cycling my units, but that has been helping me quite a lot. And this is possible to do because of the slow battles, if they were fast, this wouldn't work at all.