Rebels/Enemy Factions - What side are they on, again?

[Kenshin the vega bound]

Thats lucky for you. When a 3 way battle involving rebels, and a other faction happens, both sides always seem to gang up on me. :(

[Spongie]

Thats lucky for you. When a 3 way battle involving rebels, and a other faction happens, both sides always seem to gang up on me. :(

I try to move away from the other two armies and let them slug it out. Sometimes it works and I can manoeuvre my forces with aplomb to strike at the winning side in their moment of triumph

[predaturd]

flanking an entire army that is fatigued from a triumphant battle and striking them when theyre morale is worst is a great way of maximising kills and captures while minimising your own casualties :)

[Ravencroft]

well yeah, that's a good strat. let the two other combatants duke it out and strike at the winner.

[Kenshin the vega bound]

When I try hiding in the corner, both army's go after me.

This always seem to happen. Its a good thing that most of the time I am able to deal with both army's.

[ArtistofWarfare]

as is often the solution to many battlefield problems: Ranged attack combined with a pikeman/spearman defensive set.

Discourage both enemies from attacking head on as much as possible, and further "encourage" them to attack eachother by providing artillery/missile fire from the rear of the same defensive position.

Eventually, they'll get the point that they simply have to fight eachother first. Hopefully

[Peasant Phill]

well yeah, that's a good strat. let the two other combatants duke it out and strike at the winner.

That, however, doesn't always work out. I've noticed on more than one occasion that the AI armies are just as reluctant to engage in battle as I am. If I'm allied with them, they wait very long to press forward and most of the time they keep a big reserve. When I'm facing multiple armies, it doesn't mean that they will duke it out amongst themselves first unless unallied and starting very close to eachother.

[Ironsword]

I've just had a rebel army and a french army on a bridge battle; it was interesting...
I had to split my defences over the two bridges. I held the frech bridge using halberdiers, but only had spearmen to defend the other. The rebels broke through and charged into the rear of my army on the french bridge.
My vanguard and rearguard crumbled. The rebels then set about the french as my army routed, thankfully I held some mounted crossbowmen back and as neither gained the upper hand within the time limit, my mounted troops watched on serenely from the hill. The numbers of dead were huge on all three sides, but I held the territory! - Lucky, but we all need a bit of that!

[Kenshin the vega bound]

Sounds like an epic battle there IronSword. I love Bridge battles mself.