my common tactic ;)

**theflautist82** · March 25, 2008, 01:26 PM

i paly veryhard difficulty in retrofit mod with Grand Unit addon hotseat.

initially i send my archers to kills some men. if they have got more archers i always send my light infantry first, with 10 feet back my professional and expensive troops.

after i frighten the enemiy's archers to the back of his army, i approach my own archer to rain arrows while my light and cheap units fighting in the front line. At the same time my four cavalry units proceed at the wings.

The enemy's takes his archers behind his troops to start missling. If the time is ok, i charge my horse just to kill some of the enemy archers at the back.

Enemy infantry and cavalry awakens, they take his cavalry and and infantry back. When i see the danger i retreat my cavalry and charge my heavy infantry waiting.

i make the enemy misslile very passive losing a few of my cavallry while my longbow archers killed hundreds.

In this circle, while my heavy infantry charges with good morale and stamia, i seize missile, and took my horses into redline. then i see morale loses at the enemy.

i always win with the number advantage 1/3

**masterbaker** · March 25, 2008, 01:33 PM

I'm kinda guessing everyone does that when they can, this is a bit of an Emperor Tom story.

**Praetorian_Mossop** · March 25, 2008, 04:06 PM

yeah this is a pretty basic tactic.

**Archus** · March 25, 2008, 04:07 PM

Emperor Tom?

**Samir** · March 26, 2008, 03:02 AM

lets just call him a famous poster in this forum... offering great insight into human evolution...

**Archus** · March 26, 2008, 04:37 AM

Originally Posted by Samir

lets just call him a famous poster in this forum... offering great insight into human evolution...

**Kennylz** · March 26, 2008, 08:44 PM

Woah, so you are telling me that I can use archers to kill some of my enemies men? Screenshots or GTFO.

**theflautist82** · March 28, 2008, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Kennylz

Woah, so you are telling me that I can use archers to kill some of my enemies men? Screenshots or GTFO.

haha you are funny

**Ruprecht** · March 28, 2008, 01:39 PM

Reminds me of when i was playing vanilla without Retrofit.

As soon as the enemy archers advanced, you could just go trample them all. and the rest of their army diden't seem to care about it lol. Then i rolls in my artillery and park them at opposite ends of them, and watch as my catatapults wiped out half a legion at a time.

No longer can i rely on a stratagem of throwing large burnning missiles at my enemy, although extremely fun to watch, it really is incredibly easy. But with retrofit i don't even bother recruiting artillery as they take up valuable unit slots and are lucky to kill a handfull of men during the battle.

Now gone are the days of killing 90 % of the enemy with artillery alone, i find myself playing cat and mouse with enemy archers and seeing what makes the new AI twitch. and have learnt it's a balancing act of unit position on the field wich governs an agressive/defensive trigger within the AI. once you find that balance, you control the battle and can basically manipulate the AI to your liking.

**theflautist82** · March 28, 2008, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Ruprecht

As soon as the enemy archers advanced, you could just go trample them all. and the rest of their army diden't seem to care about it lol. Then i rolls in my

Play retrofit VH see if they cared or not

**Ruprecht** · March 28, 2008, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by theflautist82

Play retrofit VH see if they cared or not

Lol, if you read my post more thoroughly, that was exactly my point.

**Sidus Preclarum** · March 28, 2008, 01:30 PM

a real "true general" would know the difference between the words "strategy" and "tactic", wouldn't he?

**Kennylz** · March 28, 2008, 04:43 PM

By the way, I didn't mean any spite against you, just thought it was funny that you were so proud to impliment solid, common tactics.

**Kennylz** · March 29, 2008, 08:48 PM

If you are roleplaying then you might appreciate heavy losses since armies rarely won victories that one sided as to not lose more than 15% of their army. Less that half was pretty good.

**Ruprecht** · March 29, 2008, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Kennylz

If you are roleplaying then you might appreciate heavy losses since armies rarely won victories that one sided as to not lose more than 15% of their army. Less that half was pretty good.

Haha .. appreciate heavy losses.. your mad !!

Well as a king, i like to think i am

, i feel i am a greater leader if i can lead my men to victory without killing most of them. Roleplaying to me doesen't have to be politically or historically correct.

**theflautist82** · March 30, 2008, 09:20 AM

yes the first aim is not to danger your men's life. In retrofit mode you dont lose less than 200-500 hundred men. This is not because the game has penalty, ithink this is because of the equality as it is in Multiplayer games