Quote Originally Posted by Christopher
Bought the game 7/26/04. Enjoy the forum, very useful. Who thought A P.C. game could be so indepth. Anyway, have some questions on valour.

1) Is there anyway, besides winning battles to gain valour points.

2) Caught the French king with only his escort, and a unit of archers.
However, even though I had numerous more men (300) Everyone
started to rout after just taking a few losses. Had quality troops with
valour points (1-3) General valour 3. Why did this happen? French
king did have high valour number (5-6), or was it his dread number,
which was also high? Maybe its a bug? As I see it, I don't care how
experienced you are, with those kind of odds you are going down.
Dread has NO effect on the battlefield.

Against the French king: Use 2 units archers in loose formation in front of your spears to shoot at the enemy archers first. Do this to destroy the archers (if you have no cav.)

Use Your spears (remember to hold formation and hold position) to pin the enemy french king (never use peasants on the battlefield). Then hit his rear with other units (urban militia). Charge them in and melee until they start losing. Thereafter pull them out and charge again. Repeat until either side breaks.

Do not let your spears get into the forest. They lose their rank bonus inside (though the cav get penalties there as well).

Note: If the enemy has no where to retreat to, they have a last-stand morale bonus(+8). At expert level (+4 morale), The AI is virtually unroutable.