Your most common mistake

[Lovejoy]

Hello everybody!

Lets have a semi serious discussion about what misstakes you do while playing EB.

One of the misstakes I often do is to break formation and chase the routers too early.

I just want to finish the battle early so when the enemy starts to rout I start to chase them off before all of them is routing. This more than often makes my troops to split and get caught in indvivdual fight all over the battlefield. During the time the routers return and the fight continues.

Normally this cause me to lose alot of men, and sometimes I even lose.

What misstakes do you do?

EDIT: OPS, just noticed the topic is wrongly spelled. Mod plz change it. :)

[Dutchhoplite]

Very recognizable...

I always want to expand too fast and mostly find myself overstretched again

[satalexton]

thats what light cavalry is for, if they're too busy elsewhere, let them be. At least that bunch won't be fighting for a while, and wud be tired when they come back.

[Maion Maroneios]

My mistake is that I sometimes am bored of micro-managing my battles (playing as Makedonia),so I mostly end up with many unecessary casualties. It can even up with me abandoning campaigns, due to the fact that shipping troops over to Hellas and back aain costs too much precious money and time, the latter being the most important factor IMO, especially if you take your enemy in surprise.

Maion

[Onehandstan]

My biggest mistake is forgetting that elite troops are still killable, if your super powerful troops on the flank route you take a damn lot of casualties.

[white_star]

Well when my kingdom transfer to an empire. I very often forgett to dispand mercs and even forgett to move armies some times. Especially Invading a large kingdom when I have to have reinforcment. Annother misstake I do too often is to engage al my units. And when one or two of them have trouble. I have no left to help them.

[kekailoa]

Especially with factions that can retrain obsolete troops with reforms, I get all stingy and just keep retraining the obsolete troops so I don't have to spend money on new, expensive elite units.

I hate spending money.

[AqD]

Sometimes I put my army to wrong locations on battlefield and get sandwitched between the enemy and its reinforcements. It's only avoidable if I keep everyone in the center, which is usually not a good position.

It sucks when you can have to guess where enemy reinforcements will come from..

[Legosoldier]

It sucks when you can have to guess where enemy reinforcements will come from..

Usually you can tell where reinforcements come from in the campaign map.


my most common mistake is that I over-focus on one faction that I leave other areas open for attack by surrounding factions.

[Rodrico Stak]

Usually I make only one army that goes around attacking enemy settlements and then leaving small garrisons behind. It works pretty well, until I realize that its time to retrain, which means that I have to march all the way back home because I can't reinforce them from my new settlements (as Makedonia my basic line infantry unit is Pezhetaroi, and I only have 2 cities built up enough to retrain them). Invariably the enemy attacks while my army is away, and then it costs me a lot of money in mercenaries to defend what I took. It causes me a lot of problems, and even though I know that I do it, I can never seem to correct it.

my most common mistake is that I over-focus on one faction that I leave other areas open for attack by surrounding factions.

I do this, too.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I'll often forget to build something in one town and then only realize decades later that the town hasn't been doing anything. Not a big error, but probably my most common.

[Grriffon]

I LOVE cavalry. The heavier the better. If at all possible I will try to have at least 2 units of cavalry in any army I have. the successful charge into the rear of an engaged enemy is just too devastating not to attempt it whenever I can. My most common mistakes usually involve the use of the cavalry though.

I usually either:

commit to charge too soon

stay too long in melee after a charge

don't give the cavalry enough time to lower lances before charge


Plenty of my battles are won or lost based on the cavalry charge.

[Mulceber]

Hello everybody!

Lets have a semi serious discussion about what misstakes you do while playing EB.

One of the misstakes I often do is to break formation and chase the routers too early.

I just want to finish the battle early so when the enemy starts to rout I start to chase them off before all of them is routing. This more than often makes my troops to split and get caught in indvivdual fight all over the battlefield. During the time the routers return and the fight continues.

Normally this cause me to lose alot of men, and sometimes I even lose.

What misstakes do you do?

EDIT: OPS, just noticed the topic is wrongly spelled. Mod plz change it. :)

Yep, same here. Although I don't tend to make that as a mistake, it's more like I lose track of all the troops on the battlefield, they chase by default and by the time I notice them, they've already gone too far. -M

[Dogukan]

Hello everybody!

Lets have a semi serious discussion about what misstakes you do while playing EB.

One of the misstakes I often do is to break formation and chase the routers too early.

I just want to finish the battle early so when the enemy starts to rout I start to chase them off before all of them is routing. This more than often makes my troops to split and get caught in indvivdual fight all over the battlefield. During the time the routers return and the fight continues.

Normally this cause me to lose alot of men, and sometimes I even lose.

What misstakes do you do?

EDIT: OPS, just noticed the topic is wrongly spelled. Mod plz change it. :)

Lol I just did that costed me a whole high quality Roman army in a very important palce in a very important battle against Epirus.
The battle was alomost over, they were all on the run chased by my men and then...dataaa they turned back and sluaghtered my spreaded men.