The PERFECT STRATEGY

**Souvorov** · April 12, 2009, 06:13 PM

I've not started playing yet cos my laptop is being delivered

Come on Dell!

But me's got three winning strategies to beat AI: use 8 units of cannons, lure them with general, keep retreating thin line, etc.

What do you guys use?

P.S. my current laptop cant see text or display seawater - try diplomacy when you can't see the options or the words!! !

**Godless Pickle** · April 12, 2009, 06:39 PM

You'll get slaughtered....you'll see, try it when you get your comp.

**Souvorov** · April 12, 2009, 06:46 PM

I can fight land battles fine tx

I can usually win without losing more than 50 men so strategies do work. I was wondering if someone 'cracked the safe' - came up with something to win every battle against the AI

Also I would love if someone found a way to win imaginatively - like break through the middle or charge in five columns from all around

**Deathofjams** · April 12, 2009, 06:50 PM

Well, the easiest way to beat the AI every single time- and with no casualties- is to get 20 mortars with percussion shells. But that's kind of cheating.

**Souvorov** · April 12, 2009, 06:55 PM

oh sweet - i'll try that.

that would be crazy lol but battles of napoleonic era usually decided by coordinated maneuvers before the battle and there was a lot of maneuvering in battle to get the position

i just want to find a way to smoothly #and without casualties# take the enemy apart given standard armies

**Souvorov** · April 12, 2009, 07:03 PM

Consider this: Napoleon had been planning a campaign in Italy and he spent days over maps so big they filled up the rooms, so anyway he spent days planning #everything# and then he said he would defeat the enemy at city M-something. and then a few months later - he did!

Empire TW - has no effect of maneuvers and it kind of sucks

**Comrade the Colonel** · April 12, 2009, 07:28 PM

agreed

**Andivh** · April 12, 2009, 07:31 PM

Not like land battles are particularly difficult at this time. Just shore up the main point on your line and don't let them get to your cannon and its lolfacerollvictory

**Pontifex Maximus** · April 12, 2009, 08:26 PM

Moved to strategy discussions.

**Nastyvale** · April 13, 2009, 04:55 AM

Apparently the game's AI could use some improvement to say the least. Basically its plan is simple almost simplistic:

1. Target Artillery, suicidal charge with cavalry.
2. Move cavalry all the way around the player's army and try to flank.
3. Target the player's General ad infinitum.
4. Target most experienced units ad nauseum.

In short, it's not coded to act as an 18th Century army but it's filled with 'gamey' routines. Not forgetting it's 'ability' to read the player's clicks and 'react' accordingly...

**Arej** · April 13, 2009, 05:06 AM

You won't win with zero casualties with a standard army unless you exploit a bug.

**Souvorov** · April 13, 2009, 08:26 AM

yea you isare alright youguys!

i guess some it turned out pretty boring in the end - just flank them with cavalry and get them in the back...

i wish it was more unbalanced

**caldwell77** · April 13, 2009, 03:56 PM

Recruit smaller armies.
Pick more fights at once.

**Hellman109** · April 13, 2009, 07:02 PM

Unlike archers in previous games (where I end up slaughtering them like crazy with archers + heavy cav) you just cant do that in ETW. I win by having high XP line infantry in a long straight line with a unit or two covering the flanks on each side, heavy cav outside of those (2-3 groups each side) then 2-3 pieces of artillery and general + aux units.

The AI nearly always will try and flank with 1 cav unit, use your better heavy cav to slaughter them, then they engage my central line where my troops are always higher XP, fold in the flanks as per how they attack and flank with cav (leaving 1 or 2 from the side their artillery is on to take those units out).

Target general with artillery from the start, then line inf after that.