Divinus Arma's Illustrated Guide to Basic Tactics

Wow. Who has been digging this up? Postings in July? And now again in August?

You guys rock! Thanks for the love! :bow:

I might as well sticky this to my sig since no mod ever found it good enough for the guides forum...


Maybe I'll even work on it again. After all, it is an exciting time for RTW. Great mods coming out with RTR 6 and EB. Not to mention our expansion here soon.

Good times, lads. No. Great times! :medievalcheers:

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Originally Posted by jerby

that really looks like an authentic RTW strategy.
i think it wouldn't hold long against a human player/ real life archers.
archers shoudl be powerfull enough to obliterate one place in a line. and on Custom battle, a couple of things:
-lots of money spent on archers. money other players can spent on cav to outflank. or moere infantry to wash away your inf.
-it's very static, once the line is breached, there's not much to do other than break it up competely
-if the front infantry breaks ( the "__ ") your pretty mcuh screwed (with equal armies)

still very creative!

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well if the front infantry breaks then you did something wrong since your ranged units were supposed to kill everything that approaches it short of the unstoppable panzer tank followed closely by a unit of me (1 soldier in the unit, max armor and attack, fast, can sap, very good morale, may die without orders).

well theres a second line between the skirmishers to patch up and breaches but the main point is to focus fire all ranged units onto one point for the cavalry to charge in and split them. now obviously depending on faction, there could be changes such as an extra infantry unit. However, this strategy depends mainly on whithering away the center of an army, basically an "army in wedge formation" so to speak. I think with the infantry slanted so far back that only an extreme flanking maneuver would work in which case your cavalry should then go intercept.

barring an army of cavalry only in which case you close the triangle and wait it out.

well, it will be very succesfull versus a static defense. but with equal armies (exact same units) it will be a lot harder.
as a defender I'd target my archers at your archers, an infantry unit obviously dies (center) but your archers are pretty screwed as well, my velites will be targeting a: your velites, or b:your cav. In thsi way, the inside of the wedge is practically neutralized.

another option would be to double my center (to units, deeper in rows) and concentrate all My missile fire on your frontline, to do ruhs in my inf to your center, and will a lot of you unit turn to teh insdie, to fight my "center" teh rest of teh units get flankedby teh rest of my army. This ofcourse, if your ligne buckels before mine does ~;)

[QUOTE=Marcus Maxentius]

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Originally Posted by Ellesthyan I thought that hoplites did not use their spears to push, but rather to stab overhand in the weak neck area of their opponent. Naturally the formations would be a lot closer to eachother, each trying with their large shields to push the other away. /QUOTE

It's up to debate, but I read that the Spartans favored thrusting underhand whereas the other Greeks favored charging with the shield while holding the thrusting spear overhand. I love those pictures of one phalanxes spears going through the other's helmets. Ouch! And I don't know if they switched to underhand thrusts rather than overhand stabs after initial contact.

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Spartans marched into combat. Other Greeks charged underhanded then switched to overhand once in a melee.