Mopping up.

[Cute Wolf]

When i play as non phalanx, infantry army, i always try to encircle the foes, defeat them inside the box, with a cavalry act as "plug", so they will generally start fight to the death, but for some good reason, when i withdraw my cav, they stop to fight and try to run, and guess, almost completely surrounded, but rout? Epic slaughter...

When playing as cavalry army, who need separate mop up situation? Defeat them one by one in detail.

Phalanx? Sarissa? Keep some hippakontistai for cleaning up the mess.

[athanaric]

Phalanx? Sarissa? Keep some hippakontistai for cleaning up the mess.

Hippakontistai take ages for this though, due to their crappy spacing.

A truly unparalleled unit for mopping up though are Scythed Chariots. They have an even more wide spacing, but this is coupled with a terrific area attack. In fact, they're so effective at this that using them for mopping up only is still cost efficient.

[DaciaJC]

I always pursue a routing enemy force. There isn't much reason not to.

[Cambyses]

When fighting in heavy woods I do sometimes chose not to chase them down as it can be a right pain finding all the sprites stuck behind the trees. Otherwise, yeah, kill them all! In EBII we will probably have the ransom mechanic, which is a big incentive to capture as many enemies as possible.

[plutoboyz]

only spearmen, legionary and commander(whether captain or FM I don't care). I let the rest flee.

[Qvintvs]

Now, i am wondering what motivates people to get that captain when the rest of army fled anyway...

[plutoboyz]

I do it just for fun. to me, there is an extra point when I kill the commander.