My First Experience with EB

[procopius1980]

Tell me if you find a city to the east of Camulosadae on the island or are you searching for Atlantis? ;)

I think you mean west...

Chariots are absolutely useless in frontal assault or close combat encounters.

Use them almost the same way as you use standard cavalry: Hammer and Anvil.

Assault the enemy with infantry head-on, go around with your chariots and smash into them from the rear, better: smash THROUGH them from the rear! Most of the enemies will fall in the moment of impact, given the huge Charge-Bonues of your chariots combined with their mass, and the rest of the formation will be completely messed up as your chariots push them aside and cause giant gaps for your infantry to fall in. But as soon as the enemy starts to defend himself (especially if they are spearmen) your chariots will fall like flies.

If you repeat this tactics for some time or have additional scary-factors like superior numbers, flaming arrows etc. the enemy will rout very quickly when your chariots smash into them.

Cheaper levy troops rout almost immediatly (at least for me) the moment of impact when 10+ soldiers die in less than a split second.

The run-them-through-from-left-to-right tactic is also quite good, by I noticed heavier losses and easier routing if I smash from the rear (but of course that only works if you have the room to surround and not if the enemy fields thousands of men)

Hey! I know my directions, I just somethings get them confused in my head when I speak or type them.

Speaking of Altantis, perhaps you should try reading Stephen Lawhead's Taliesin since you subscribe to the theory that Atlantis could have been near Britain... or perhaps that's why you said it!

[Apgad]

Also check out this thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=104695 for more ideas when playing as Casse.

Welcome, and make yourself comfortable, you'll be playing EB for a while...

[bovi]

If you activate the script again, it should fix what has been wrong. The AI's finances may be broken for a while though.

[procopius1980]

If you activate the script again, it should fix what has been wrong. The AI's finances may be broken for a while though.

I hoped doing so would fix that, and I was early enough to start over, so I did. I'll start over a few times as I get used to some of the adjustments. Anway, I started over, activated the script, and it was Winter every other turn! I've read somewhere that you can mess up a registry setting by failing to activate the script everytime you start a new campaign or load a game.

I'll try it on VH/M if you all say so. I am just thinking, however, that I beat Ictus on VH w/ just 5 units, so why make it easier?

Thanks for the welcome. I can tell you guys love this, and I am loving it too!

[Swordmaster]

One thing you shouldn't do is start the script more than once in one gaming session. So if you quit one campaign and start another, you should restart the game.

[procopius1980]

One thing you shouldn't do is start the script more than once in one gaming session. So if you quit one campaign and start another, you should restart the game.

Excellent! Does that advice apply if you only load a save point as well?

[Redmeth]

Excellent! Does that advice apply if you only load a save point as well?

As long as it's the same faction you should be OK (you might get a few oddities if you save and load after a turn where you previosly loaded like 2 winters in a row, but with only one being real winter the other just looks like that on the strat map).

[Swordmaster]

Excellent! Does that advice apply if you only load a save point as well?

Yes, it does.