Hints for beating Richard's campaign?

[Martok]

But this is touchy, because you are taking a risk: the time during which you concentrate tyour efforts on the good/general enemy units at the beginning of the melee can give time to the "crap" enemy unit to do some damages in your flanks, creating the same chain routing effect among your troops as the one you are looking for.

Aye, indeed. To paraphrase from the book I'm reading right now (Virtues of War, by Steven Pressfield), it's a little like grappling with a bear: You're trying to stab the bear in the heart before it can crush/rend you with its claws. It's always a risky tactic, but one that can work very well -- provided your flanks hold out long enough.

[Caerfanan]

Aye, indeed. To paraphrase from the book I'm reading right now (Virtues of War, by Steven Pressfield), it's a little like grappling with a bear: You're trying to stab the bear in the heart before it can crush/rend you with its claws. It's always a risky tactic, but one that can work very well -- provided your flanks hold out long enough.

That's an elegant metaphore, Martok!

This exactly what I had in mind!

PS: I hope that "metaphore" is a word, in english...

[Martok]

Glad you like it, Caerfanan; I enjoy the analogy as well. Not that I can take credit for it, though -- thank Pressfield (or possibly Alexander himself).

PS: I hope that "metaphore" is a word, in english...

It is. (And it's spelled "metaphor" in English.)