What kind of general are you?

**Shambles** · 03-25-2005, 06:30

if im attacking i will usualy not use any musketeers and chose a heavy rain day to attck.

but i like my heavy cavalry and musketeers.
archers run out of ammo to fast but i use some cavalry archers for sneak attacks.
warrior monks feature hevily in any Pinser like moovemnts.
and i always keep some "pike men" (i forget what there called) or thos nagenata blokes
right behind my musketeers so they can pull back behind them and stop shooting,

im not to good with kenzai they just seem to make the opponent run a bit =)

so
guess im a bad general

oh and i play shogun,

**Craterus** · 03-25-2005, 12:08

i play with lots of missile cav.. lots..
i use these to weaken the enemy while i move my whole line forward..
then i use cavalry to charge any units that get too close to my line.. and thats it.. wait for them to rout or die out to missile fire!
i have a few units of infantry just in case the battle swings that way but i only use infantry as a distraction while a cavalry sneaks round the back and charges units from behind..

thats just how i play it - im a real cavalry commander me... (just like Craterus - Alexander's cavalry commander)

**Mikeus Caesar** · 03-25-2005, 12:15

My armies are pretty much the same on MTW and RTW. 8 units of heavy infantry, 4 units of elite heavy infantry, 4 units of medium cavalry, 2 units of archers and 2 seige weapons. The tactics i use are that if i'm attacking, i will send in some archers, to pick as many off as possible, then draw them back behind my infantry, and send the elite infantry into start the fight. Once they get going, i send in my normal infantry to help surround them. Then, last but not least, i will send my cavalry around the back of the enemy, and smash into them.

**Somebody Else** · 03-25-2005, 19:42

I kind of like an engineering approach to a battle. I'll bring some heavy infantry, maybe some cavalry and archers, but give me some heavy duty artillery, and I'm happy. I do enjoy a good siege too, sweeping the enemy off the walls, then crushing them in the streets...