03-15-2008, 03:25 PM
An age old tactic that works great in RTW is when dealign with defeated forces.
Never totally envelop an enemy force and then stay that way. Once you see the enemy troops start to break you need to give them an exit to flee through.
If you dont give them an escape route they will fight to the death and you will take casualties. If you pull out from one or two sides and give them somewhere to flee through then they will go into full flight and you can send those very fast and very fragile light cav units we all hate/love to run them down with no losses.
This has two benefits. First it obviously reduces your casualties and two it gathers easy experience for light cav units that normally take damage so easily in battle.
Never totally envelop an enemy force and then stay that way. Once you see the enemy troops start to break you need to give them an exit to flee through.
If you dont give them an escape route they will fight to the death and you will take casualties. If you pull out from one or two sides and give them somewhere to flee through then they will go into full flight and you can send those very fast and very fragile light cav units we all hate/love to run them down with no losses.
This has two benefits. First it obviously reduces your casualties and two it gathers easy experience for light cav units that normally take damage so easily in battle.
Timothy Hanna
