Battle maps

[Tamur]

This is something you see in historical texts all the time, but I'm wondering if there are people in the TW community who draw up maps of their battles and the AI's battles to study (or disseminate) tactics? Asiin, maps showing the initial placement of units, their movements, placements at intermediate stages, etc...?

Tamur

p.s. golly, it's nice to be in a place where I can use four-syllable words and actually expect an answer back

[Tamur]

"As in", not "Asiin"... sorry for the confusing typo!

[Tamur]

I guess the answer here is, apparently not. I've searched for these, and have found nil. I'll keep looking but such instruction I think would be really helpful for those like myself who couple a deplorable lack of tactical ability with a need for visual learning.

[Angadil]

In another forum I've seen crude ASCII graphics used to explain hypothetical battle formations and accompanying tactics. However, more elaborate drawings representing past battles, no, never seen those nor heard that anyone used them.

[Morgan Frydman]

This is something you see in historical texts all the time, but I'm wondering if there are people in the TW community who draw up maps of their battles and the AI's battles to study (or disseminate) tactics? Asiin, maps showing the initial placement of units, their movements, placements at intermediate stages, etc...?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean getting out a pen and paper before a battle and drawing up your plan of attack/defence?

If so, I've only done that a couple of times, when I really, really needed to win the battle. But it doesn't help that much as the enemy never does what I want.

[Tamur]

What I'm thinking of is a sort-of post mortem on the battle, showing what the movement of troops was, where one side or the other caved in, how many men were thrown at the centre versus the flanks, etc. Usually with large colourful arrows showing the size and speed of movement...

I just finished penciling a simple replay of mine, and I can see why they're not common --- they take a long time! 32 units (1 v 1) and it took about 2 hours. Still, I'll give it a go and see whether it's really worth it in the end.

[Seven.the.Hun]

replays are probably good too, only ever replayed battles of mine so far myself,
methinks i'll look into others too, i'm guessing there are many great ones out there, much gravy for the brain