Quote Originally Posted by option View Post
I'd been using hammer and anvil strikes gratuitously (as always) in my VH/H campaign, and the damn enemy units would just sit there not routing and not dying. Their morale and staying power was through the roof, which was frustrating beyond belief.
That's weird. From my experience, it works perfectly well. Did you make sure your cavalry has enough distance to charge? And you need a good charge value. Equites Romani, for example, are pathetic and wouldn't cause routs a lot of the time. You might also have to charge a few times, depending on the units you are fighting and whether the enemy general is still alive and what he's like. If you could give some specific examples, it would be good.

I think it's unfortunate that you gave up on Hard battles. I think Medium would be too easy considering the AI pretty much falls for the same tricks all the time, and once you start using tactics like denying your flanks and etc, enemy armies about double yours in size wouldn't be impossible to beat. On medium, I imagine an army even larger than that wouldn't be a problem on open ground