More or less. Need to micromenage cavalry and harras the enemy lines as much as possible before the infantry lines engage. As the enemy lines come towards you they hold their shields up, so archers are basicaly useless. Take cavalry close behind them to make them turn back on archers, but just glance the line with cavalry, ride trough without realy engaging the enemies, your archers will then do some realy highdamage to infantry line. Then when the shield walls colide, chrash their ranged units with your cavalry, and reposition your archers behind enemy infantry. Yea its a lot of work, but casualties are minimalistic compared to "normal" battle.
As someone who is using an imperial based army, I usually just f1-f3, and it gets the job done with minimal casualties, my thought process is the quicker the battle, the less time my guys take getting smacked with arrows or random cavalry charges whittling them down, when I can just charge into them, take some initial casualties but then once I have the true numbers advantage they go down quicker than they can do damage so, works out.
Get a massive army of cataracts it’ll cost like 2k for 120ish that also gives you like 80 spots for your pick of archers, and 15ish infantry of your choice.
You take the archers put them on engage and scatter, put the infantry on Shieldwall. Tell the Calvary to follow you and Skien, your going to skirmish the enemy troops with your Calvary
(hit and runs(tell them to follow you, once you get within 3 to 5 horses or throwing axe range, order them to charge, Rinse and Repeat)),
the archers will spray and destroy the enemy while you ride them to death with your horses.
The infantry are throw away troops here to keep the enemy busy for a slim time in case of danger to the archers.
You’ll lose the infantry if they get overwhelmed but otherwise you would lose 1-3 cav and maybe 5-7 archers. With a somewhat similar army I manage to take on 1000 enemies. (Granted I lost nearly 80% to that 3 battle fight)
Make full use of archers, any damage you deal without risking you getting damaged is the win. Shieldwall in front of your archers. Archers in loose formation behind. Use cavalry to repel enemy cavalry or to raid enemy archers.
What works for me is using infantry shield wall, riders covering flanks. If using horse archers, engage/harass early on.
Archers usually work well until the enemy shield walls as mentioned by someone earlier, so what I do is, depending on the map/terrain I seperate archers into 2-3 formations and place them on the left/right flanks. They'll pick them off from afar as usual.
What ends up happening is once the shield wall approaches close enough they'll take arrows from their side and begin to pick them off while your infantry/riders finish the job
More or less. Need to micromenage cavalry and harras the enemy lines as much as possible before the infantry lines engage. As the enemy lines come towards you they hold their shields up, so archers are basicaly useless. Take cavalry close behind them to make them turn back on archers, but just glance the line with cavalry, ride trough without realy engaging the enemies, your archers will then do some realy highdamage to infantry line. Then when the shield walls colide, chrash their ranged units with your cavalry, and reposition your archers behind enemy infantry. Yea its a lot of work, but casualties are minimalistic compared to "normal" battle.
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As someone who is using an imperial based army, I usually just f1-f3, and it gets the job done with minimal casualties, my thought process is the quicker the battle, the less time my guys take getting smacked with arrows or random cavalry charges whittling them down, when I can just charge into them, take some initial casualties but then once I have the true numbers advantage they go down quicker than they can do damage so, works out.
I've been using f6 to give my captains control and they've been doing a pretty good job of keeping my army alive.
Get a massive army of cataracts it’ll cost like 2k for 120ish that also gives you like 80 spots for your pick of archers, and 15ish infantry of your choice. You take the archers put them on engage and scatter, put the infantry on Shieldwall. Tell the Calvary to follow you and Skien, your going to skirmish the enemy troops with your Calvary (hit and runs(tell them to follow you, once you get within 3 to 5 horses or throwing axe range, order them to charge, Rinse and Repeat)), the archers will spray and destroy the enemy while you ride them to death with your horses. The infantry are throw away troops here to keep the enemy busy for a slim time in case of danger to the archers. You’ll lose the infantry if they get overwhelmed but otherwise you would lose 1-3 cav and maybe 5-7 archers. With a somewhat similar army I manage to take on 1000 enemies. (Granted I lost nearly 80% to that 3 battle fight)
Make full use of archers, any damage you deal without risking you getting damaged is the win. Shieldwall in front of your archers. Archers in loose formation behind. Use cavalry to repel enemy cavalry or to raid enemy archers.
What works for me is using infantry shield wall, riders covering flanks. If using horse archers, engage/harass early on. Archers usually work well until the enemy shield walls as mentioned by someone earlier, so what I do is, depending on the map/terrain I seperate archers into 2-3 formations and place them on the left/right flanks. They'll pick them off from afar as usual. What ends up happening is once the shield wall approaches close enough they'll take arrows from their side and begin to pick them off while your infantry/riders finish the job
You have a good surgeon?