Where has all the battle tactics advice gone?

[Drisos]

By the way guys. I have been experimenting and just for the record building 2 Cathedrals doesn't double the income from churches.

ok, now you mention it, I do recall some discussion on the more-then-one cathedral thing from before. Well.. might not get the income, but it is actually possible to build several. Minor glitch

[thip]

The only disadvantage I suppose is that you can't build new temples or upgrade your existing temples once you accept christianity.

Drisos, using your method to get 2 or more temples does have one advantage I realised the hard way. If you lose the province with the cathedral to ronin then they destroy the cathedral and you lose the income. If you had another cathedral you would still get the income.

This is probably more of an exploit I suppose. The game designers probably only wanted/intended the player to have the one cathedral.

Busy fighting off ronin at the moment...and Takeda was resurrected..lol. Not fair...

[thip]

I was wondering if you guys play with the timer on? I have had the situation in large battles where I have routed the enemy and given chase.
The problem is that as his army exits, his reinforcements then arrive all over the field and usually behind my army which is now exhausted...and can't withdraw without a fight.
Consequently, the time usually expires before I can win. Any thoughts...?

[Spongie]

I prefer to play with timer off (true for MTW as well). It means you have to win, rather than playing to the clock...

[Martok]

I prefer to play with timer off (true for MTW as well). It means you have to win, rather than playing to the clock...

Same here. I haven't played STW or MTW with the timer on in years.

[Drisos]

I used to play with timer on, always. Nowadays in my first campaigns without timer.

Doesn't make much of a difference it seems. In big battles I don't need victory right away, I just slaughter their initial army and come back next turn to finish the rest.

A timer is useful when slight glitches occur. I've had a couple of times that routing units of the enemy couln't reach the border. They were stuck, and I couldn't kill them either. If you have no timer, you've got nothing but esc and you lose. But it happens only very rarely.

[Wasp]

I never have the timer on either. I think it's a silly idea that if you hide long enough, you win the battle! Now if it was something like, if the timer expires before there's contact, your defensive force secretly retreats to the castle or another province without anybody winning or losing.