Obsession with Rock-Paper-Scissors

[grinningman]

As to your thing regarding Flank Charges: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. It's not remotely balanced or fun. If you want that type of thing I highly advise you to go play WHFB TT. In that game Goblins, (worse than any peasant by quite a margin), can beat Swordsmasters, (Elite Elves who would make fixed DEK look like peasants in comparison), just by getting a flank charge. The Swordsmasters will then rout and get run down 99% of the time.

If that’s the kind of game play you want, then fine, but it's the very fact that the TW series doesn’t have that and has it quite realistic in that elite swordsmen charged by units no better than peasant, (or most missile units in melee), don’t get utterly trounced just because they got rear charged, even though they could have beaten a full stack of said unit in general melee.

It's not the sort of game I want to play and I was trying to avoid giving that impression by saying a sword and spear unit 'of similar cost'. Of course it would be silly if a unit of spear militia could charge Armoured Swordsmen in the flank and win because it was a flank charge - then unit facing would be much too important.

I think we agree on the basic principles - that no one tactical aspect should become vastly more important that the others. My initial concern was that people were getting too caught up over the sword-spear-cav RPS and not taking into account other important, and to me, more fun, balance aspects.