Right, back with me burned roast chicken
I know what you mean and now i kinda understand why in 1.0.8 beta of the PoM the FMAA were recruitable through the Citadel Barracks and so were lacking from the battles mostly.Originally posted by Asai Nagamasa
The reason I use so few of them is because I tend to focus on spears/missiles/cavalry when playing as catholics. I'm also a very defensive player, so I'll often attack with a force that is more suited to defence by moving it into a position where missiles can hit the enemy and they are forced to attack me When the enemy rout it's a case of sending the light and medium cavalry after them. This is how I play as the Turks and that probably affects how I play catholics. I should probably try different tactics.
Playing defensively is the norm for TW SP, no matter how many years you play that. Used to do the same thing until i went online. There, if you leave too much of the initiative to the opponent you get creamed - and at the beginning you dont really understand why that is. Eventually you start being proactive too rather than just being only reactive to the point that when you go back to play against the AI you see how much he leaves the initiative and you now... cream him
This is one of the reasons why MP enthusiasts dont come back to SP - after the pop there is no stop. The pop of course is to have the time and will to go online and weather the crazy hours, long waits, insulting people and clan rivalries. However, if one invests the time and effort he is rewarded with good times like no other imho in playing TW as well as very good online friends.
Offensive tactics were never coming naturally to me - but through online play i eventually got into them and when i did, i realised that they are the dark side of the moon of sorts - a whole new world within the world i was in. They are really the Ying to the defensive Yang of war tactics. Seeing replays of online play from good players for the first time i was left with the mouth open - it was more like a dance than war. While the attacker was expanding - the defender was contracting just enough to find the weak overextended spot and gather the momentum to counterattack it. The attacker then would bypass the counterattack and start in turn contracting to stabilise and gather momentum. It was like watching waves on a beach - so natural and beautiful - there was no notion of a deadly struggle there.
I am fully aware that defense is what is most natural to people - thats why online play is good in that sense - because it forces you to try things that you wouldnt otherwise, extending your skills in the process.
But i digress.
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