Things you just never do in battles.

[Caliburn]

Never, ever trust anyone.

[Vantek]

Never believe it when the prebattle screen tells you that you need to defeat the neutral forces if you are to win as well, and endanger your king with the good runner vice when trying to kill them despite clearly not having enough time to do finish the job anyway.

[m52nickerson]

Never forget to account for all your enemies forces.


....hey, what is that coming out of the trees?

[Turbosatan]

Never forget to account for all your enemies forces.


....hey, what is that coming out of the trees?

An interesting variation on this that I have employed many times is what I like to call the "Massively overconfident marching headlong thru' the trees toward the main enemy force at the back of the map and walking smack straight into an ambush" gambit.

For best results, make sure you have your heavy horse (even better, your general/emperor/whatever) leading the advance. This works especially well when the dudes hiding are people with big sharp axes...

"****! Where did those Druzhina infantry come from?"

Shortly followed by:

"****! Where did my heavy cav go...?"

[naut]

Underestimate the Vikings.

[caravel]

Underestimate the Vikings.

Expecially Huscarles. As a general rule send an army at least 50 times the size, then you may have a chance of winning...

Huscarles are one of those "speed slider units". you simply point them in the general direction of the enemy and then crank up the speed slider to full and watch them devour the enemy as a shoal of piranhas strips a carcass.

[Knight of the Rose]

Never bring a gun to a swordfight...

I whish I never rushed up the hill because I got bored and wouldn't go the long way round. But I do.

I never bring siege, and I never user peasants. I never engage vanilla HA in melee.

/KotR

[m52nickerson]

Underestimate the Vikings.

.....and never ever underestimate the Polish Vikings!