One piece of advice

[AggonyDuck]

Use your units together in unison and do not send them to one-by-one to the slaughter...

[R'as al Ghul]

Perhaps useful:
1. After moving my army into place as one large group,
I ungroup all units. This I do because I've the habit
to ctrl+double click certain types of units (select all musks).
If they are still in one group, ctrl+double click selects the whole
army. If you don't realize that (happens easily in the thick of the fight) and change for example the facing,
your whole army will move when you only wanted to change the facing of your musks.
Probably it's just me but I made the mistake several times. It's just so
convenient to move your whole army as a group that I sometimes forget
to ungroup.

2. Another bad mistake is to commit your general to early.
Losing your general means a serious morale drop in most
of your units. This can lead to a mass rout.

3. Move your infantry line as a whole for the units to support each others
flank and to keep their morale stable.



Itto

[Togakure]

For MP: open your mind and let go of any preconceptions you've developed from playing SP, read the wealth of information here on this forum, ask questions of those who know, practice and experiment what you learn using SP Custom Battles, and play others online as much as possible (systematically focus on improving your gameplay as you have fun playing others).

Oh, and don't forget to eat, sleep, socialize and take care of business ... .

[Irinami]

Timing and patience. I've RARELY found a use for grouping, moving, and changing facing of the entire army in single-player. I'm not so good at these RTS'es, I'm afraid. The one thing I've learned that's really helped is to be patient and develop a sense of timing. 4 Yari Samurai against one Warrior Monk unit can have drastically different results depending on where and when the WM's are attacked. Pin them in front, then have the patience to move your other men to their flanks and rear, then hit the flanks just before you hit from the rear. Compare that to 4 YS charging headling into the WM's. Your losses will be much different with the two methods.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Get Warrior Monks, Light Cavalry, Archers and then Geishas in order of importance. Though Geishas are great fun they are not nearly as useful in conqureing as a solid balanced army and you should be able to build the required buildings for them with very little delay even as you build up three or more provinces for your military units.

[Drisos]

Since I'm quite MP addicted now:

For MP:

1) Be honourable and nice.
2) Find out all basic stuff.
3) play a lot, have fun!

I'm busy with this myself too.

Hello '1Pain1 Duck'. I guess you are now 'Aggony Duck'? In that case I want to thank you for the nice 2v2's saturday. See you around.

[Wilbo]

Each army will function better if designed with a certain task in mind, for instance taking into account: battle terrain; season & weather; attack or defense; the tactics & units you will likely face.