“Hints and Tips!”
You only wish you’ve played a game this cinematic before. Heck, we did too.
A great war simulator, you are the commander and must lead your men to victory in a war between 3 nations
- Buy nothing but archers and light foot troops. Deploy them at the back of the battlefield. Every turn, don’t move, just shoot with the archers and taunt with the foot troops. Enemy morale will drop to zero well before they reach your lines.
- I chose a mixture of 4 Varangian Guards, 3 Warriors, and 4 Archers. Over the course of the game I pulled off 5 charges, mostly with the Varangian Boar’s Snout formation, with taunting and archer’ing going on throughout the game.I liked charging so I would arrange for my Boar’s Snout of Varangians to retreat after a charge with the Warrior Shield Wall that was behind them sometimes moving up and taking their place. I would then charge again with the Boar’s Snout next turn after recreating the space for them by retreating the Warrior Shield Wall the command just before, with an occasional taunt thrown in between. It worked great, especially at this one point when the CPU had his three remaining Huscarls out of formation in an inverted V that was the perfect shape for my next Boar’s Snout charge… I wiped them all out much to my surprise, leaving just the last EarlMy 4 archers killed about 1/5 of the English with most of the work coming from my rotating Boar’s Snout tactic. I’m getting better at the archer minigame but I prefer spamming my spacebar for a charge attack,
, though I don’t know how well it would fare against Matt’s tactic in post 5. - Killing the king/leader will drop the enemy morale significantly
- Being on both the front and back of an enemy and attacking simultaneously from both sides is either automatic instant kill or strong enough to have instant-killed all the enemies I used it on, including near-full strength elite units.