Command style battles

This is something ive been trying lately while hosting 3v3 games. One person gets all inf another gets all cav the last person on the team gets 4 arty and the rest mixed of his choosing.
Its pretty fun as long as everyone follows the rules and adds a new wrinkle in a sometimes mundane multiplayer gaming experience.

Tried this alot of times but do it with friend as the randoms we did it against were not very happy about it

Yes ive tried it against randoms in a 2v2 and the opponents were suprised to say the least lol.

You could try a strategy of having an overall commander on team games such as 3v3s or 4v4s (if you can get one that's stable). This might work best on some of the larger historic terrain maps such as Dresden and Borodino. Having a player dedicated to surveying the battlefield as a whole might help directing coordinated attacks and spotting break throughs etc. They could hold back with a powerful reserve of cav and guard units to deploy.

I swear, this is how ALL other RTS games I've seen are played.

DOW2, AOE series, SC series (kinda, cos u only need 1 unit in a 4v4...), even COH and MOW to some extent.

Not to mention C&C cheese...

Yea, I've done this multiple times with GODS members in both ETW and NTW. It was fun until alot of ppl started whining because we all spammed a certain unit. also, we didnt specify the amount of artillery. In ETW one time one of us brought heavy cavalry, another guy brought elephants, I brought all French Guard Horse artillery, and another guy brought line inf. My main enemy tried to go head on with me while the heavy cavalry army that was hannibal's repositioned its self behind I think Legendary King's Elephants, surprisingly enough this force was a deadly mix and when the elephants broke the squares of the enemy infantry, the heavy cavalry just shredded the line and lights of one of the enemy forces with minimal losses mostly to the first elephants that charged. after their army had been defeated any my enemy as well as hannibal's was reaching my canister shot range, I began to blast my enemy frontal force and hoped to wipe out the enemy cavalry from afar which had already half-worked. my ally with line was positioning a small portion of his army behind my artillery while he kept pushing the enemy flank so as to force the enemy to reinforce it and somewhat take the pressure off of me. Long story short, We won because of the heavy and elephants' flanking charge, only about half of them actually charged to save the others from being exhausted. It was all that was needed though because the amount of morale debuffs on the enemy flank caused almost an instant rout. Pretty awesome game but I can imagine the enemy team probably didnt like it.

You could have spectators, with the too overall commanders spectating and giving orders, while the other 3/4 teammates actually do moves. That could be pretty fun I think, like a real battle, order delay, misunderstandings and all!

Yea that might be fun, never tried that.

I would like to be the guy who launches simultaneous and multiple and devastating and multiple and devastating and simultaneous and defense and devastating deep strikes against and enemy who is so bold, so foolish as to stand against my wrath

that would be really good. it's not so important on maps like grassy flats where you're facing your opponent, but cuold be very effective on games like dresden, borodino, salamanca, galician ria etc.

Yea, its most fun on Galician ria and pyrenees peak. I love those maps.

It's good for a bit of fun to do sometimes, has more of a feel of being in an actual battle and I guess it's good for teamwork. Try doing it as a 3v4 though vrs randoms -- I wouldn't use it for a proper game tbh.

very nice commentary vid evulclown. nice mix of epic music and good commentaries too, and a plus for showing those tactics

Originally Posted by Titus Maximius Thongus

very nice commentary vid evulclown. nice mix of epic music and good commentaries too, and a plus for showing those tactics

Thanks, it's [BsA] Risquard [HM]'s video, he's got a load of other good ones too!

I wouldn't suggest doing this without Ventrillo / Teamspeak or something similar with close friends because communication is key -- Game chat doesn't cut it really.

IMO the benefits don't really outweigh the cons with this tactic. You get to take the best of every nation onto the field for your points... But you're straining micro by having to control things over a much larger area and adding delays to everything by having to ask for stuff to be done -- Fun though!

it adds a bit of a challenge. it's definately not a real tactic. but it's good for a fun change of pace.

Been doing this with friends for years to relieve boredom.

Yea, we also used to test units, and compare them. we had an army of eles charge down hill on alpine pass at a huge blob of 4 full armies of mueslims. the elephants ran right through the first 50 yards of men but ended up getting stuck with no more momentum in between the blob of men. it was hilarious because of how much ur computer was lagging when you would zoom into the mass of men. soooo laggy!

Good Lord Achilleslastand, what the hell was CuRoi doing the other night? He let me wipe out the guy opposite me and roll up his line as well in about two minutes flat (while the other two guys double-teamed you)! You need a new partner in crime man, he's slipping big time! By the way, thanks for not "dumping" the game like most people do so I could save the incriminating "evidence!"
Also, I think that your "command style" multiplayer battle idea is really cool. It makes for a great game if everyone follows the rules, just like you said.

the only explaination is my game was alt-tabbed and I was watching big black booty #13

That's exactly what I figured!