Primitive fortifications peculiarity

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Monkey is right Patron, winning is about depriving your enemy of all options, this causes them to lose. From Sun Tzu:

"Therefore those who win every battle are not really skillful-those who render other's armies helpless without fighting are the best of all."

The aim of strategy is to deprive your enemy of options, ruin his plans, cut off his supply lines. Once he is helpless he can be swept away.

[bretwalda]

Monkey is right Patron, winning is about depriving your enemy of all options, this causes them to lose. From Sun Tzu:

"Therefore those who win every battle are not really skillful-those who render other's armies helpless without fighting are the best of all."

The aim of strategy is to deprive your enemy of options, ruin his plans, cut off his supply lines. Once he is helpless he can be swept away.

I agree. I give an example on strategy level: I have Constantinaple, Byz has Crimea, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece. Now I could attack one province at a time and pushing Byz back and finally fighting an epic battle against the Byz Emperor.

Instead I attacked all three provinces with adequate forces. I only fought one battle (the last one: when there was no province to retreat to). I ransomed the Emperor and much of the nobility for 26 thousand florins and they are stuck in Crimea...

Or on tactical level: when I deprive the enemy from its archers and force them to run after me, fight an uphill battle or be pepper to death by arrows...
(or hiding some Ghazis in the woods. or crush some horsearchers between two charging cavary.)

And I give a nice tagline

"Choose your ground well when defending - pick your army right when attacking..."

[antisocialmunky]

Thanks guys.

On another note on primative fortifications. Is it me or does VI have ALOT more casualties when infantry destroy a wall segment? I've never experienced casualties from wall collapse in MTW. Hell, it's actually a good thing to keep your sappers right next to the wall since fort walls block the 'keep' and the wall archers themselves can't shoot directly down or so I've thought.