MP Armies

[Tomisama]

Fight your battle, not that of your opponent (which means in this case that you engage when you want to, not when your opponent wants it).

Great wisdom indeed, especially where I am concerned.

For instance, I am sure you know that I am easily trapped into a tit-for-tat cavalry battle on the flank.

And often when repeatedly attacked, will opt for a mass solution rather than being nitpicked to death.

But I too am very aware of these weaknesses, and will continue to try to find better answers to these situations as time goes on.

It may be a failing in some circumstances, but you can always count on me to be relentless in pursuit of perfecting my own generalship.

The only thing that I regret is that almost always my allies pay the price along with me for my misjudgments.

[TosaInu]

Hello Tomisama,

Great wisdom indeed, especially where I am concerned.

It's something that's heard in several 'competitive' sports: you decide what happens, not him.

All of us 'fail', I'ld even guess it happens at least once every match. If not, would anything happen?

For instance, I am sure you know that I am easily trapped into a tit-for-tat cavalry battle on the flank.

..yes.

And often when repeatedly attacked, will opt for a mass solution rather than being nitpicked to death.

..yes, but.

But I too am very aware of these weaknesses, and will continue to try to find better answers to these situations as time goes on.

I'm sure you will find answers.

It may be a failing in some circumstances, but you can always count on me to be relentless in pursuit of perfecting my own generalship.

The most memorable battle for me the past years, was one where I was allied with you.

The only thing that I regret is that almost always my allies pay the price along with me for my misjudgments.

I wouldn't worry too much about that. Even if the game was important and serious. I'm sure there are situations and of course it's to be praised that you work on improving the art, as we all should do.

It is a teamgame. Losing a teamgame doesn't just mean that one player underperformed (to put it bluntly), but also that his allies didn't utilise his (lack of) abilities well enough.

A team of a weak and a strong player is to be feared more than two strong opponents.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Great wisdom indeed, especially where I am concerned.

For instance, I am sure you know that I am easily trapped into a tit-for-tat cavalry battle on the flank.

And often when repeatedly attacked, will opt for a mass solution rather than being nitpicked to death.

But I too am very aware of these weaknesses, and will continue to try to find better answers to these situations as time goes on.

It may be a failing in some circumstances, but you can always count on me to be relentless in pursuit of perfecting my own generalship.

The only thing that I regret is that almost always my allies pay the price along with me for my misjudgments.

We all make mistakes Tomi. Sometimes your allies didn't utlize their abitlites to.

but then again, if you make a mistake, sometimes it can affect how your allies play, in my opinion, but not all the time.

All the Actions I do in game, I think has a affect on my allies. I think Tomi, if I do good, mabye my allies with to. Always keep a good mind set, Glass is Halg Full, and fight your enemy when you want, not when he wants.

[Noir]

Originally posted by Puzz3D
You can switch to hold formation to receive the charge, although, I don't find this to be necessary with full size 60 man units. One-on-one, a YS in engage-at-will will not be tripped into a rout even by a charging HC as long as it's facing the HC and not moving. If you weren't aware of it, there is a -2 moral penalty for a unit when moving if the formation is disrupted by the movement. Keep in mind that there is a 2 point positive hysteresis in the morale system. That means a +2 point morale effect has no effect until the total morale bonus impacting the unit is more than +2. So, if a unit looses -2 morale as a result of a disrupted formation, it does not get the +2 morale back when it gets back into good order. An additional morale bonus of at least +1 is need to trigger a morale increase.

That explains why YS fight better and longer in a line with high morale units and also why employing them statically to meet enemy units is often the best bet (by observation/inspection).

Thanks for clearing that - i had full spears routing especially in large team games just like that because i missed the ordered formation morale impact.

[Puzz3D]

That explains why YS fight better and longer in a line with high morale units and also why employing them statically to meet enemy units is often the best bet (by observation/inspection).

Thanks for clearing that - i had full spears routing especially in large team games just like that because i missed the ordered formation morale impact.

They fight longer in the presence of allied units because they may be getting a morale bonus from having their flanks covered, and they will have less outnumbered morale penalty as they would if operating alone. YS are not actually design to operate alone. Only the high morale units can sucessfully operate alone in the presence of many enemy units.

Morale 10 = WM, ND, BN
Morale 8 = Hatamoto, HC, NC, NI
Morale 6 = YC, CA, YS
Morale 4 = SA, YA
Morale 0 = JT, PT