Another drawback to HUGE unit size is "reinforcements delayed" problem. Apparently the game can't field more than 5000-6000 troops simultaneously so if you bring 2 big stacks to the fight you can well find yourself fighting with only one of them at a time.
For example, once my spy spotted near some Greek city a huge Greek army, some 4000 soldiers, and a stack of Brutii about same size. They were standing against each other without attacking. I decided to move there smaller army of mine (1000 soldiers) and attack Greek force. By doing this I was hoping to escalate a fight between Greeks and Brutii and after the fighting done just roll over the weakened Greek force and slaughter the wounded![]()
When I attacked the Greeks, in pre battle scroll I saw Brutii army along with my force.
But when I entered the battle I got message "reinforcements delayed" I had to fight huge Greek army all by myself with no option to retreat. My small army was entirely slaughtered!!![]()
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