MTW Help!!!

[Lonewarrior]

SO I'm barely getting into campains, and I already did all but Joan of Arc. I past the first battle, but the one on not letting the english get to defensive position before me is confusing ~:confused: , I need help on that one.
Any suggestion guys?

[Oaty]

Been a while since I did that campaign but I will tell you from what I can remember. I think you have to inflict so many casualties before they leave the map. Is this correct? Well anyways the whole idea is to entice there army to stop and force them to fight. I remember getting it on the first try and what I did was force my cavalry to be vulnerable to get them to turn around. I had 2 units of cavarly threatining there rear while the rest of the army was marching there. 1 unit of cavalry got tied up and had spears approaching on the flanks and the other unit was able to escape. I routed the tied up cavarly before the flanking spears could inflict heavy damage. After that it was basically straight up tactics as they were forced to fight.

[Duke of Gloucester]

Move as quickly as you can - I don't mean run, I mean be decisive. Sometimes you can't avoid a defending enemey getting in to a good defensive position, so when they do make sure you attack them from the best position, usually the shallowest slope. The pre-set formations that you get as attacker are rarely the ones you would chose, and hardly ever puts the units exactly where you would, but move first rather than changing your arrangement.

You can often persuade the AI to leave a strong defensive position with archers, and even if you don't, they are good for softening up the enemy before attacking.