Multiplayer rules thread

**bovi** · 05-14-2007, 11:10

Huh? I've only been on your side

. If you're talking about our bridge battle, my sphendos massacred the enemy balearics mostly because those were busy hitting some phalanx dudes until half of them were gone. My sphendos got massacred in turn by the horse archers though.

Demulon got the worst of it once though, I had some 6 slinger units and maneuvered to the higher ground. He tried to use horse archers but was butchered, then barely arrived at my battle line before breaking.

**Griever14206** · 05-14-2007, 12:29

The problem with a large army of horse archers is that if I chose to play the Romanii and I face an army full of say, 12 units of horse archers, it will be quite difficult to come to grips with the enemy. Even after the horse run out of arrows it will simply be a cat-and-mouse chase as the infantry chase the calvary all over the map to no avail, and I can assure you that is not very fun.

Point well made on the rest, seems as if all that mping with the pre-teens in M2TW has ruined my trust in people (pertaining to online gaming)

**bovi** · 05-14-2007, 13:52

Again, I believe this particular crowd is unlikely to run around in circles just to make the opponent bored and give up.

**mAIOR** · 05-14-2007, 15:23

Well, in vanilla a friend of mine was tired of fighting with a kid who was always deploying on the corner. He came up with a brilliant strat to counter that... Artillerie... lots of it. He forced the kids army out of the corner and then we saw all his mastery in warfare. Basically he rushed all his units against his army with no order at all, got surrounded and slaughtered in no time.
As for EB, I believe people here are deccent enough not to pull anything like that.
I believe one house rule for someone figting with a lot of HA against infantry would be that engagement is mandatory after the arrows are depleted.

Cheers...

**bovi** · 05-14-2007, 16:23

Yes, although if the enemy infantry choose to pursue it's fair to string them along until they're exhausted and/or out of cohesion.

**mAIOR** · 05-14-2007, 16:28

Well, I speak of myself but when facing HA with heavy infantry, I always place my HI facing the enemy and standing their ground. I never pursue HA as it is futile... and only tires my infantry. I place my Light infantry in the middle of the heavy as this allows them to be somewhat safer and fire if the HA approach too much.

Cheers...

**[EB]Demulon** · 05-14-2007, 18:11

I think Pharnakes had a good point about the historical battles (and 60k is the perfect amount). Before a battle it should be understood that it will be either a steppe battle or a western Euro. battle. With steppe you can expect lots of HA, while with successors you can count on lots of phalangites, and likewise with barbarian factions you can expect a lot of infantry.
I think by establishing the type of game, everyone will have a more enjoyable time, as opposed to having Casse fight Pahlava, which is neither historically possible but also annoying, as HAs can decimate half of the infantry army before contact is even made.