What Battle Tactics work for you?

**Slaists** · 07-29-2009, 01:53

Early Ottoman battle: musselims (peasants) all the way!... Mob them!

**Fisherking** · 07-30-2009, 07:03

Originally Posted by Slaists

Early Ottoman battle: musselims (peasants) all the way!... Mob them!

Why not, Poland seems to mostly use the Pandour “Garden Gnomes”.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-30-2009, 07:40

"Dude! Austria just Smurfed the Smurf out of my Smurfing army! How the Smurf did those Smurfing Smurf-holes Smurfing Smurf the Smurf with their Smurfing Smurf army?!?!"

i now have a compelling urge to go online and pick a Smurf army as Austria, then say that whole line of dialogue, from the other side.

and then create a power-point stop-motion presentation where Smurfs and keebler elves fight.

**Xipe Totec** · 07-30-2009, 19:08

Originally Posted by Fisherking

Why not, Poland seems to mostly use the Pandour “Garden Gnomes”.

I just finished off Poland in a long Austrian campaign, whilst at war with Prussia, Poland, Russia and the Ottomans. Almost every Polish unit I faced was line infantry. I did not see a single Polish Pandour in the entire campaign! I know! Amazed!

Maybe they were helping Santa pack the sleigh! When I have faced big pandour mobs in earlier campaigns I have always used the tactic of suddenly advancing the whole infantry line with the forward arrow icon. They never back off despite their longer range, but soon start running away when under volley fire. My usual gang of howitzers with exploding or carcass can often find them when they are hiding by targetting a likely spot near the general. The only good gnome is a dead gnome after all.

**Didz** · 07-30-2009, 21:02

Actually I think they look like a horde of little red riding hoods.

**antisocialmunky** · 07-31-2009, 15:13

Thanks for putting the image of gunning down 1000 retarded children huddled in a ball into my brainz...

But I guess the wolves were going to eat them anyways if I recall how the story goes originally.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-31-2009, 15:33

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Thanks for putting the image of gunning down 1000 retarded children huddled in a ball into my brainz...

But I guess the wolves were going to eat them anyways if I recall how the story goes originally.

smurfs dont appreciate being called retarded children.

**Xipe Totec** · 07-31-2009, 16:10

Stop this thread now - you guys are killing me!

Seriously this light infantry 'clumping' behaviour is totally whacked! I attacked Lisbon as Spain without artillery, and was a bit worried by their light infantry line -up with the long range post-patch muskets. Hardly suffered a scratch as the whole stack spent the whole battle trying to fit into a Mini Cooper instead of shooting at my army. They're acting like a herd of startled goats. CA really need to look at improving the battle AI.

Wish I'd had some howitzers though.