Sorry for having deserted my own topic, but I just sat my final exams last week so I was a bit busy.

Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
King Henry, what a pleasure it is to see you here! It's not often I see you outside of the Frontroom -- welcome!
Oh that's not much of a surprise. I find in recent years my own life has become rather busy and my arrogance has decreased somewhat, so I no longer think that every one must hear my opinion on such or such a topic, and so I have fallen somewhat to the rank of lurker. But thanks for the welcome, it is must hearty to visit your band of mead-drinking MTW players!

Back to topic, I think the problem lies in the fact that though I started off with MTW, I have never been a great fan of real time games as I find that the go far to quickly and I'm often completely overwhelmed by the enemy or forget about such and such a unit I despatched to do such a task. Therefore it was only when I started playing RTW that I thought "Well why not give these battle things a go?" In doing that, I believe that I got used to the ease with which one could defeat the enemy in battle: just pin down their line, send the old horseys round the back, charge their rear, and before you could say Jacobus Robinus you were chasing down and butchering the poor blighters. But when I tried this with MTW, it was a different matter. Now the computer wasn't actually as mad as a March hare, and my flanking moves didn't always succeed. And when they did succeed, my knights didn't so much as crash into the enemy's ranks as gently amble into their rear, and rather than flee in panic as soon as they got a whiff of a horse's breath, the enemy just stayed there and kept on fighting, never even having the decency to die at an alarming rate. I just wasn't used to this kind of behaviour, got bored because of the length of the battle, and so payed less and less attention to what was going on and I suppose that is when the casualties started to rise.

So looking back on it, perhaps not exactly woeful tactics as such, but lack of patience, which I suppose does make me a bad general.