Quote Originally Posted by panten View Post
Don't think it has been mentioned yet so:

Bridges
Use bridges to your advantage. They are easily defendable and can safely secure your empire in the beginning when the budget is tight.
This works best with factions who can employ phalangites but spearmen would work as well, only not as effective.
True, a good one. Used it myself a lot. Works just as fine with HA, or for that fact, any missile based army. One more thing, this strategy is tremendously useful when deployed within the enemy teritory in a deffensive-offensive way, because when they see a small army just standing arround, they will attack, and die. But beware: attune your troops to the nature of the enemy, meaning that it's not quite smart to deploy phalanxes on a bridge or crossing and expect that Saka will ram itself upon sarissae.