Quote Originally Posted by Tomisama
Thoughts?
When the enemy moves to flank you in force, don't move your army further out to that flank because that tends to isolate your army where the enemy can overwhelm it with a stronger force. It shortens the time before contact with the enemy and simultaneously lengthens the time of arrival of allied support units. It also incurs fatigue for your units and for allied support units which can significantly reduce the combat ability of the units.

To be effective, supporting units have to arrive before your army is routed, and while the morale level chosen does provide for the separation of units and armies in order to allow for angles of attack, it is possible to have too much separation. Judging the maximum safe separation distance is very important and depends upon making good estimates of how long units will fight, how fast supporting units can traverse the distance and how quickly you or your ally is likely to respond to the developing situation. If an ally is slow to respond, you have to stay closer to him than to an ally who is quick to respond.

When under attack the team should concentrate on repelling the main attack rather than some team members staging their own counterattack on some other part of the enemy position. The defenders should be able to bring more units to bear on the main point of attack unless they have stretched out their line to the extent that there is too much separation between the units or armies.