Your most common mistake

**Legosoldier** · 09-08-2008, 01:57

Originally Posted by AqD

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** · 09-08-2008, 02:55

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.

Originally Posted by Legosoldier

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** · 09-09-2008, 07:26

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** · 09-09-2008, 16:17

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.

**machinor** · 09-10-2008, 00:45

When I got a bit of cash in my pocket, I start building up armies just because I like building up armies. Then they usually just stand around and fight rebels or something likely because it would take ages to march them to the enemy so when I have finished raising such an army I have to disband it so I don't go into debt.
I just like raising armies with all those bright and shiny soldiers in their cool uniforms and on their horsies. At least that way I never get so filthily rich that the campaign begins to bore me because of an infinite treasury.

**satalexton** · 09-10-2008, 02:08

i tend to 'cheat' in river battles by making a half circle around the bridge head with my phalangitai...you know what happens... my general bodyguard unit once got 1500+ kills (half their army) simply by chasing after the whole routing lot back across the bridge....

**Grriffon** · 09-10-2008, 04:30

Originally Posted by satalexton

i tend to 'cheat' in river battles by making a half circle around the bridge head with my phalangitai...you know what happens... my general bodyguard unit once got 1500+ kills (half their army) simply by chasing after the whole routing lot back across the bridge....

my favorite battle ever in EB was when i was way far into a Seleukid campaign, and had an army of their elite spearmen, supported by cretan archers and cataphract elephants. i was fighting a 4000 man army of epirotes, and it was at a river crossing. i made one half circle of elite spearmen at the top ford, and a second one at the bottom ford, but left a big gap for my elephants to charge once they got packed up. it was pure, undiluted slaughter. so fun.