Strategy Map - Marching Unitited or Concentration at a Point?

[placenik]

Well, I mostly have two types of armies in the field:

Scrimishing army: 1-2 preferably mounted scrimishing units to harass big enemy stacks using attack&retreat tactic, to screen field, make frequent siegies, and to distract enemy in eny other way.

Crushing army: For actual wining, best battle stack I can make.

[RLucid]

Scrimishing army: 1-2 preferably mounted scrimishing units to harass big enemy stacks using attack&retreat tactic, to screen field, make frequent siegies, and to distract enemy in eny other way.

Crushing army: For actual wining, best battle stack I can make.

That's a good example.

A variation for even non Horse-Archer/Javelin factions is the cavalry screen. You can basically prevent an opposing army from reinforcing a key point, by fighting a defensive battle, which you win simply by remaining on the field.

That may seem unrealistic, but actually it was a function of cavalry to screen forces, and if you run into enemy cavalry, it is going to slow up the march; as you have to fear ambushes.