Quote Originally Posted by Takeda Shogunate View Post
I have NTW and ETW.

I played the Multi

although..I'm only 3 stars,I have not unlocked the bow cav.

Who's Kocmoc?
That would be me ;)

Well, to get you some quick help. Watching other people videos brings you almost nothing, if you struggle with the basics. You will see how armies and units move and fight, but your problem is more about basic knowledge and how to move an army.

Some easy first steps:

1. go to the MP-guides and look into the tread about "how to grp units and setup" You will see and read about how you create groups of units and can place them alltogether.

2. You have to look at the ultra basics - Spears beat cav and swords beats spears and cav beats sword. Its a base structure which dont work always like this, but also here, You can go to my youtube channel and watch a 20 sec vid about how spears destroy cav.

3. timeline of a normal fight online:

- most fights start with a shotout, since archers have mostly wider range than guns, you will see bows starting the shooting
- at some point one won the shotout and that force the other guy to either get a better position or attack you with melee/cav

This is a very very clustered overview, you can have a lot more tactical momentum with the different units around.

The shotout: If you setup your bows or guns, you have to be aware of 2 important things:

1. less rows = less casualties
2. open formation (should be shift-1) = less casualties
3. sitting in woods = a lot less casualties


Back to you cav problem. Hiding cav is only a problem, if you move bad and at some point the hiding cav surprise you in your back.
The best way to avoid that is, to send out a cheap spear, as example Ashigaru. Now it depends on the fund lvl you play at, but with your lvl you should play 5k still.

The spear will slowing though the woods and any cav will just retreat from it, the only problem you could get is, if someone has a melee unit with his cav, but this hardly will happen. This spear now walks happily trough the woods and if there are any cavs, they will get moved. No one with some brain with ever attack you spear with his cav.

It can be possible, if you get a cav in the back, but I doubt that you will see that happen.

The effect and maths behind that idea is simple. You send out a unit which costs you 350 or less (with retainer) to catch units which costs 800 or more.


Read up, inform yourself.