Quote Originally Posted by anubis88
Since the beginig of my career as a TW player, i've always prefered to defend and conquer with a defensive agression. I just marched into enemy territory, and waited for them to attack me, defeated them, and the conquered. In TW games for it's just so much easier to defend than to attack.
When i want more chalange, i'm the one that attacks, but i've actually lost a few battles when i was outnumberd and i was the one attacking.

So the question on my mind is.... Was it really so much easier to defend than attack in those times? It should be easier but no so easy

And what do you guys like? Attack? Defense? Ambush?

share your thoughts men
If you attack, the AI gives away all initiative to you, and you can easily outmanouver them and force them to split up etc. Typically, on the defensive you have to face a more aggressive and coordinated enemy. The RTW AI with EB style balancing (slower battle speed) actually appears sufficiently coordinated to at time be dangerous, unlike in vanilla where units rout so quickly that the incredibly long time the enemy needs to flank you (still a bit too rare of an occurence) means they arrive much too late. So the answer is that attacking is easier unless you're heavily outnumbered and don't have a manouver advantage. If outnumbered heavily and without manouver advantage, defense is usually easier IMO.