Time limit in battles? Gives AI a chance?

[Ironside]

Well I know one battle were the time limit was essential.

The comp got a guy trapped when he withdrew.

Find the time limit quite good, it's rarely annoying (unlike in Shogun) and helps in the extremely slow battles that happens sometimes. Only time were I depend on it is in castle sieges.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I have actually lost to the AI because of the time limit, once, and all I needed was another thirty seconds.

[Del Arroyo]

I like the time limit because I don't like to spend hours fighting a battle. I have lost a handful of times because I took too long in cornering and engaging the AI.

IMO the time limit definitely plays into the AI's hands, with its tactic of constantly shifting positions as you begin to approach them. If you're too slow to charge once you get them cornered, you can lose due to time.

I've also won maybe once or twice thanks to the time limit. I think the time has run out on the AI attacker a few more times than that, but I'd basically beaten them at that point anyway.

The time limit keeps battles from dragging on TOO long. And gives you an incentive to get your butt moving.

DA

[Deus Ex]

hmmm, it seems to me that the time limit is really meant to provide the edge that Defenders have.

If you are the defender - and you are attacked by an overwhelming force - one of your best tactics (hell, read Sun Tzu), is to NOT engage them. To drag them out, wear them down, whittle them away - use the terrain to your advantage etc.

If the enemy cannot find you and destroy all your forces, eventually they will have to give up and go back home - until next summer...

just my 2 florins

DE

[Procrustes]

IMO the time limit definitely plays into the AI's hands, with its tactic of constantly shifting positions as you begin to approach them. If you're too slow to charge once you get them cornered, you can lose due to time.

That sums it up for me, too. The battles I had where I used up most of the time tended to be ones where I was slow in getting off the starting block on an attack, or when I spent too much time crapping around getting my men in perfectly straight lines or manuvering my cavalry.

[bretwalda]

That sums it up for me, too. The battles I had where I used up most of the time tended to be ones where I was slow in getting off the starting block on an attack, or when I spent too much time crapping around getting my men in perfectly straight lines or manuvering my cavalry.

Az an attacker time has never run out when I did not want to. (There is a rare occasion when I cannot defeat but I would like to thin the enemy). You have to pay attention to the clock though. You have to be efficitent and manouver you to assault position by the time reaches 3/4 of the available amount.

[Vladimir]

Just imagine one Welsh bandit holding off the Horde.

[Del Arroyo]

Just imagine one Welsh bandit holding off the Horde.

They'd find, corner, and kill him relatively quickly. Even HA are pretty easy to corner and kill in MTW, as long as there's only one of them.

DA