Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
I just thought this seemed like a good idea...

There are guides for almost everything related to MTW by now, and there's already the Pics & history of your empire thread, so the point of this thread is to put more emphasis on what is after all the most entertaining part of the TW games: battles.

The intention of this thread is to serve as some form of FAQ and guide regarding battles, so that we won't need a new thread for every battle-related question in MTW. Retell your more memorable battles, discuss battles and tactics and ask whatever battle-related questions you might have. This would also be good place to have a collection of useful links. I'll start with the perhaps most important one, frogbeastegg's The Complete Total War Unit Guide.

Feel free to post away.

PS. I recall this very detailed guide on the combination of Halberdiers and Arbalesters posted about a year ago, unfortunatel I can't recall who wrote it and where it was posted. Does anyone else also remember this?
First off, great thread...I'll be reading it quite a bit and contributing soon enough .

As for the Halberdiers and Arbalesters- I don't recall the thread you're referring to but I mentioned using spearman/pikeman/halberdiers as a "fence" in front of several units of Arbalesters. It can be an absolutely devastating defensive strategy...