Quote Originally Posted by Quirinus
I see...... though heavy infantry runs relatively slowly, no? I interpreted mrdun's strategy as relying on the fast-moving archers to catch up with the sieging army's rear guard, which is no mean feat itself, having to move out of the games and such. Is heavy infantry fast enough to do that before the enemy gets out of range?
Good question Quirinus.

When I "start battle", I have my archers on the walls and the heavy infantry at the gate just below the archers. My cavalry are at the two flanking gates ready to move out.

Once "start battle" has been pushed, the archers usually fire an opening volley and the enemy army will either move out of range or charge the infantry I start marching out the gate as the first two things I do after "start battle" is get the cavalry moving out the flanking gates and the infantry marching out the gate closest to the enemy.

As I just stated, the enemy will usually begin to march out of range of the archers, but sometimes, they charge at the infantry! If they charge at the infantry, the archers have a shooting gallery giving the enemy the maximum opportunity to die for their King. If the enemy keeps sacrificing themselves to your arrowheads, stop all but one unit of your infantry from marching out and take advantage of the opportunity.

If the enemy wisely chooses to move out of range, let your infantry form the protective line and march your archers out to be between the protective line and your wall. Do not send all of your archers down from the wall at the same time as they will logjam going through the doors. Instead, send one unit of archers while the others "stand to" on the walls. When one is safely out the gate, send another and so forth. This will give you some archers on the walls should the enemy decide to attack your infantry and archers when they are outside the gates. Once you have your archers out, move your protective line and archers to where the infantry can protect them and your archers can shoot. Once they are out of arrows, withdraw them inside the gates under protection of the infantry. If the archers have done enough damage that you can drive the enemy off, do so if you wish. If you wish, you can also bring everybody back inside the walls to repeat the process next turn.

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