Quote Originally Posted by Wilbo
I was wondering whether you could use the Spartan idea to completely nail the one flank of an army while simply holding the rest back. I guess if you use units of spearmen on hold formation to just plain stop most of the army and then hit them with as much as you can on one flank (hopefully outnumber that flank 3 to 1 or something), it should crumble with enough time for you to get some units behind their army.

I'll try that. I noticed that yari and ashi units last longer when I put them in a hold position. That's useful for keeping the enemy units busy while I flank them.
What I usually did was wait for the enemy to attack while I shot the enemy down.