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    Default Re: Army-Wide Formation Techniques

    Quote Originally Posted by Grimmy
    I had something here to represent my basic formations for both equal force on force and when outnumbered but the forum software here dosent seem to recognized spaces and I have no clue how you got your stuff lined up without it all stacking against the left side of the page after hitting submit, so... oh well, life is hard when clueless lol.
    I would just put it into MS Paint or something, or just use ___ to replace spaces since the board has unwisely decided to not include the code tag in the forum formatting
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    Running the army of horse archers, I generally put all the horse archers in a single line. The elite guys go on my left flank, the basic guys go on the right. All of them set up in pretty much a square formation, about as deep as they are wide. When the battle starts, the left and right wings both wrap around the enemy. The left wing, being as that's the unshielded side of most knights/infantry, stays on the left side. The right wing will generally go all the way around to the rear if there is room. The general, and any shock cavalry I may have, stay centered in the rear, well out of reach. The army skirmishes until they either run out of arrows, or the enemy breaks. Any unit that routs and moves away from the mass is pursued to destruction by one unit, which will then return to the line.
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