Run through rather than attack?

[alpaca]

Yeah it works. If you run through, the simple fact that you'll have a huge number of soldiers attacking each individual enemy means that you kill much faster than they do. Stopping you at the gate doesn't work very well I found.

However, you're very susceptible to missile fire, especially from artillery pieces, if you do it.
I frequently use it in field battles, too, to fight against the anti-blob code which makes your unit spread out after it hits the enemy.

[TheLastPrivate]

This is better offensively but it leaves the side/back of your units (especially cavalry) extremely vulnerable.

I ran thru a unit of town militia and somewhere in the fray my general died - something that wouldn't have happened if it was just a frontal attack.

[Brutal DLX]

It gets used also in MP, a bit like the old swiping exploit back in MTW. I do think it's an exploit and am not using it intentionally in SP, but in MP you will have to use it, otherwise you will lose. I hope this will get fixed one day (if it's fixable at all).

[uruk-hai]

yes it may make them better killers but don't you think in sp we should give the ai a break and not do it to them?beside woulded it be easyer to just run then charge at them agian?

[Rhedd]

I've never noticed this being terribly effective with infantry, but with cavalry there's a good reason for it to work, and work well.

Cavalry can't attack to the front, so it's very easy to get a situation where a neat rank of cavalrymen are just sitting there, horse-nose-to-enemy, doing nothing.

Mounted units can, however, attack while moving (the rider attacks, the mount moves), so if they charge through an enemy, the knights swing at the enemies that pass to their sides, and tear them up.

Meanwhile, the infantry that would've taken potshots at the noses of the poor, stuck horses, are busy shuffling around and turning to face the running knights, and get slaughtered.

It can be quite dangerous against the wrong enemies, but it works especially well in a cavalry-vs-cavalry situation, where it's easy for both sides to get stuck nose-to-nose and do nothing.

[alpaca]

I've never noticed this being terribly effective with infantry, but with cavalry there's a good reason for it to work, and work well.

Cavalry can't attack to the front, so it's very easy to get a situation where a neat rank of cavalrymen are just sitting there, horse-nose-to-enemy, doing nothing.

Mounted units can, however, attack while moving (the rider attacks, the mount moves), so if they charge through an enemy, the knights swing at the enemies that pass to their sides, and tear them up.

Meanwhile, the infantry that would've taken potshots at the noses of the poor, stuck horses, are busy shuffling around and turning to face the running knights, and get slaughtered.

It can be quite dangerous against the wrong enemies, but it works especially well in a cavalry-vs-cavalry situation, where it's easy for both sides to get stuck nose-to-nose and do nothing.

The reason why it works with infantry is that the individual soldier will stop to fight when he meets an enemy (usually) - the advantage is that they're in a tight bunch though and not spread out thinly.

[Rhedd]

The reason why it works with infantry is that the individual soldier will stop to fight when he meets an enemy (usually) - the advantage is that they're in a tight bunch though and not spread out thinly.

Interesting.

I'll have to test it out and see how it goes.