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    Default Re: The Manual Retreat Tactic

    I was playing Armenia, and got hit by a really large stack. I only had a few HA and my general. Well, I exhausted all of my arrows, and they still outnumbered me badly. Luckily, however, they had very little cavalry left. So I just ran around the outside of the map until the time expired. Oddly enough, I actually got a "win" from that, because I'd killed more than I lost when time ran out.

    Felt pretty cheap, but I really liked that general.

    Bh

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    Default Re: The Manual Retreat Tactic

    Don't get ambushed. Carry a spy with your army - it doesn't count against stack limit and spies spot all ambushes as soon as you get in range visual.

    Same with Diplomats.

    Diplomats with the army stop them from getting bribed.

    Don't let life pass you by. Go with the flow.

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    Spies reduce your movement points by quite a bit in my experience, and that is a penalty I can rarely afford. They are more likely to detect ambushes, diplomats less so. Ambushes are so rare that I was happy when I first got ambushed (after several hundred battles.)
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