Dislike Fighting Large Armies?

**Celestic** · August 09, 2011, 03:11 PM

Is it just me who finds stacks of 20 units boring to fight? I find no tactics or strategy or planning, just send infantary to bee-line for their infantary whilst calvary go round, i enjoy fighting with less men which makes it more intense.

**ChivalrousKiller** · August 09, 2011, 03:23 PM

True enough, but when you're fighting a great army, a victory feels more decisive and important

And as it is more difficult to control a greater army (and fighting one), such a battle is also more impressive to win

**tudor93** · August 09, 2011, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Celestic

Is it just me who finds stacks of 20 units boring to fight? I find no tactics or strategy or planning, just send infantary to bee-line for their infantary whilst calvary go round, i enjoy fighting with less men which makes it more intense.

yeah .... they main reason why I don't play mods like RS2 for RTW

**_Elysium_** · August 09, 2011, 05:28 PM

Depends on the army compositions. Fighting a 20 unit army supported by three more armies with a total of nearly 50 units on the field is good though.

**KingofPoland** · August 09, 2011, 11:05 PM

I don't like fighting large stacks, as they never keep the formation into a disciplined one; its always sloppy and disorderly, so you have to make your line become sloppy ad disorderly, which means more chances to get flanked.

**The Glorious Moldovan** · August 10, 2011, 01:12 AM

Basicly yeah,but i tend to find more micromanaging in large battles,and i love micromanaging,you have to always keep your flanks secure and beware of those pesky archers that are fireing from behind

**Averroes19** · August 10, 2011, 01:15 AM

I actually like fighting larger scale armies. I find this to be more epic and more engaging. Just seeing those thousand individual soldiers is very entertaining and makes me happy to play M2TW.

**mesor** · August 10, 2011, 03:49 AM

I love huge scale battle's so much that i tend to lure multiple enemy stacks into 1 place then engage them all at once.

Normally against egyptians or the like because i find it funny to watch about 50 enemy units hit a solid wall of heavily armored men and then have my men just advance and hack them into ruin

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**Alfred K** · August 10, 2011, 04:08 AM

I like fighting with both - large stacks and small stacks. What i dislike is fighting a small stack with a big stack and vice versa. That's just boring.

**dannyalex** · August 10, 2011, 05:08 AM

fight vs large armies with u haveing minor armies give u the advantage to get heroic vivtory and if victorious u get a new general

**Alfred K** · August 10, 2011, 05:16 AM

dannyalex, you mean the "man of hour" event. Now THAT's the reason I don't get it very often.

**Rinan** · August 10, 2011, 05:51 AM

Well, I find fighting large battles one after the other boring. In some mods they make it so that there are only big-ass armies on the field (or garisson scripts that give a 20 units army to any besieged city) and I don't quite like it.

Big battles are hilarious though if you can just take on a defensive formation and watch the enemy hurl themselves helplessly against your shields and swords and spears. Was especially fun decimating 4 Goth armies with 1 Roman army that way in BI mod for Rome

**Fireright** · August 10, 2011, 07:17 AM

Fighting large armies is where its at

If the enemy has the common courtesy to field a decent stack, its good manners to go get stuck in and give em a good hammering

Horse archer heavy armies though are a real yawner to fight.

**Jingo Eugene** · August 10, 2011, 11:37 AM

I hate fighting with large armies as well. It feels more like a FPS shooter than anything else. At least to me.

"Oop! There's some archers over there! Heavy Cavalry coming round the backside! Quickly! Kill those knights before they reach my... Man I forgot about those guys over there! Ah... Screw it..."

I prefer small, half-stack battles with relatively equal armies. I find those rather interesting.

Horse archer heavy armies though are a real yawner to fight.

Amen.

**fredtrotter** · August 11, 2011, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Eugen von Savoyen

I prefer small, half-stack battles with relatively equal armies. I find those rather interesting.

I agree, it means that you can execute your tactics with greater skill and it means that you care for your troops

**Christonikos** · August 11, 2011, 06:57 AM

Well, I don't like fighting huge stacks fights all the time, but when one huge battle decides the whole campaign, it feels soooo epic.

**Gazz** · August 11, 2011, 10:53 AM

I like huge battles.

EDIT: and RSII rocks!

**A7X** · August 11, 2011, 11:31 AM

i like fighting with large amies as long as no advanced armies are involved,you just know you're going to win, but i love those battles with "gather what you can" armies,trying to stop your man from routing,endlessly flanking with your general hoping for the enemy to rout,i remember fighting 2 irish stacks with 1 both of the same quality for a simple castle,i must've had about 2500 man the enemy the double,i left with 300/400 the enemy with 100/200,the whole thing felt so desesperate and epic,i took the castle the next turn,had to ship my stack back to england to get replenished,but boy did that battle felt so decisive and important

**Doge Domenico** · August 11, 2011, 01:26 PM

From what I've read I have the impression that people just don't like challenges? Or am I wrong?
I mean, my hardest battles are 20v20 battles. And wether i win or lose I love the carnage . Besides the AI's half armies are generally crapsince I never build half armies so i always pwn them so hard.