Cantabrian circle

[NihilisticCow]

There's a variety of spam builds that beats ha spam (I "only" took 12 against Dollar, keeping to max 6 of a unit of course - but if he hadn't have edge camped, I doubt there would have been anywhere near as many losses as I took when charging at the end, single figure losses were quite possible). I'm not really sure whether it's worthwhile trying to defeat it though, as it's not really a remotely fair setup for most factions and for basically this reason it is prevented by pretty much every rule set in common use. Yes spam builds will beat it, but spam builds are defeated by other spam builds, so you don't really get anywhere in the end.

I'm still looking at the effect of CWB rules as for horse archer usage (as the horse archers only come into the archer max of 6 per player + 1 steppe horde horse archer if the faction has it with cantabrian circle still banned). In theory it makes horse archers much more useful, as you can do things like doubling on a sides archers in team games for short periods of time as well as general harassing with sufficient numbers to pose a threat that must be countered instead of ignored. Of course if you don't mind risking RSI, you can keep the horse archers moving in different directions thereby throwing off the foot archer targetting and beat foot archers head on.

Oh BTW Dollar, "skirmished beautifully (I thought it was the computer at first)".... not sure whether to be insulted that you compared my skirmishing to the AI's... :P