TotalWar Superstitions

[Tamur]

All right, this may be a little bit of a weird topic, but let me explain...

Back in my MMO days I somehow ended up being in guilds whose leaders had an inordinate number of superstitions about the game. If I was going through a specific dungeon on Thursday, they'd tell me it had better loot on Fridays. If I was at a certain location killing beasties, they'd tell me to walk around the obelisk three times and then go kill the beasties, and I'd get better drops. etc etc. A lot of these. I think they had been passed down since beta versions.

Are there Total War superstitions like this? Strange things that people do before or during battle that they think will help them win?

The only one I think I ever held was in Shogun. If I clicked to order my first unit to attack, and the battle music that started was the one with the drums, I knew I'd win no matter how ugly it became.

[KukriKhan]

On the original EA Shogun server: never be the #3 guy to sign up for a match. #2, #4 or higher = OK. Every time I was the 3rd guy, someone would drop, and game-over.

I don't remember anyone else mentioning this. But after a couple weeks of signing up third, then getting a dead game, the superstition worked for me.

I just called it the "3rd-on-a-match curse", and waited.

[Samurai Waki]

The only one I think I ever held was in Shogun. If I clicked to order my first unit to attack, and the battle music that started was the one with the drums, I knew I'd win no matter how ugly it became.

Similar to this but playing MTW:VI and having one of the viking Battle Tracks Begin.

Also, every stack in my army had to have at least one Men-at-arms unit, irregardless of what kind of battle I was playing.

[PBI]

I've always had this odd superstitious belief that spearmen are good against cavalry. Total nonsense, I know...

I also worry that the ghost of every soldier I get killed needlessly will come back to haunt me.

[Veho Nex]

for me in M2TW and RTW with expansions if the enemy started to route first I knew I would lose. If I started routing first I knew I would win.

[Craterus]

How do you lose a battle when the enemy starts routing?

[Viking]

How do you lose a battle when the enemy starts routing?

Just as you send your heavy cavalry after the routing spearmen, and the freed infantry into the rear of remaining enemy infantry; the spearmen cease to rout and finish of your precious cavalry only to move on to impale your best infantry through their backs.