04-08-2009, 07:18 PM
Quote:One tactic that seems to work for me in most cases is simply having my Cav on either side of footsoldiers. When the battle begins I send out the cav flanking the enemy on both sides but keep them far enough away so that they do not get into battle quite yet. Now sometimes the enemy will tear off and go for for the cav making their main force a bit weaker. That's when I might attack. Otherwise I may send the cav out and them bring them back in behind the enemy. Its an awesome game, one of the best in my book.
Have you tried playing Rome Total Realism? Its even better.
My usual tactic is quite brutal and blunt really. Heavy infantry in the front, archers behind, skirmirshes and cavalry at the sides. I hate javelins throwers because they usually run before they even have time to throw their spears at the enemy, so I keep them on the sides waiting for the enemy to engage my heavy infantry in the middle. When they are pinned, I get them to flank and pepper the now immobile enemy with all their javellins from the back and sides. Meanwhile my heavy cavalry is doing two things, one, if I have a lot of them, some go straight for the general unit of the enemy - decapitation. The rest go for a full charge into the rear of the enemy infantry, now being peppered by my skirmishers and pinned in place by the infantry. It usually always results in a win.
Variations usually involve dispensing with the skirmishers or archers (if I don't have any), luring the enemy general into fighting my heavy infantry or lancers (with faints and suicidal cavalry strikes to get him to follow the 'routing' cavalry) or if they have vastly superior vacalry in quality and numbers, dispersing them through the map with the same feint and suicide tactics, while my infantry engages key targets such as generals and so on without having to worry about being charged by enemy cavalry.
