Cantabrian Circle quirks

[Kobal2fr]

Do they have a target in range? Personally, I never use that formation. It tires them out, because they are running the entire time in addition to the fatigue from shooting. I've followed Doug's advice and form missile cavalry into more or less square blocks.

Running all the time doesn't matter as much when your HAs have Very High Stamina... But that's not the point.

The point is, I'd like to try both approaches and figure out which is best when out of experience, tests & results. I know the circle was somewhat useless in RTW, but M2 is not the same game, so I'd like to re-try. And I can't, cause I can't get the circle to fricken work . It's that charge thing all over again : I'm sure there's a "proper way", only I can't find the methodology...

Once you activate the shooting circle ability, give all your horse archers a move order on top of where they are, then immediately give an attack order again.

Thanks ! I'll try that at once. No "fire at will" I assume ?

[Musashi]

Basically the circle is useful when your horse archers are in range of enemy missile troops because it makes them less vulnerable to ranged fire....

Of course what I really wish they could do is circle around the target unit, shooting them from all sides...

[dopp]

It makes them very much less vulnerable to ranged fire and allows them to bombard the enemy constantly. Very useful. Too bad it doesn't work properly (especially when you have too many missile cav units in the same space).

[katank]

Activate the button and then click on the enemy unit you want to target. It works perfectly.

Note that skirmish becomes automatically disabled then. This makes your cantabrian cav very vulnerable to being hit by a cav charge.

[Hashashiyyin]

yeah the circle seems to be a lot less useful then in rome.

I just keep them squared up and micromanage flanking the enemy. if they have archers i try to hit and run them with my HA to keep them from firing. other then that, not much to do, and I never use the circle.

[KARTLOS]

i also found it hard to hard to do the circles, so i just gave up trying

[katank]

It's useful only if you are getting hit hard by enemy missiles. Usually, with a large superiority in missiles of a pure HA army, it's better simply to sit in squares and flank with the units so your units sit in a circle around their army shooting.

Multiple horse archers in circles collide with each other any how.