hammer and anvil best strategy total war

#HAMMER AND ANVIL BEST STRATEGY TOTAL WAR FULL#

Throw them into the meatgrinder to win the war of attrition.īut on a serious note, always have at least 3-4 melee units in your army to hold the line and space out your archers in several lines, rather than putting them all up front. They are extremely cost-effective and easy to replace. With Cathay it's best to simply spam peasants. With most factions you can run a pure ranged army with no dedicated melee fighters. Bad pathfinding will delay a portion of the enemy army. They will be confused by map border, which will squish their formations, increasing the accuracy of your archers.Īlso, place your archers behind obstacles (rocks. This will cause them to either stand still or only send 1 unit at a time towards your archers, letting you kill them easily.Įasy victory, as long as you have 1 really fast lord/hero.Īlternatively you can camp in the corner of the map to prevent the enemy from flanking you. While chasing your faster lord, the enemy troops will slowly tire out.Īfter half an hour of running circles, the enemy AI will break from integer overflow. Use your lord to run around their army for about 20-30 minutes on 3x speed (so 5-10 minutes IRL), whilst hiding your archers. If you do that you need something to poke your opponent to force him to come toward you.Ĭheese the hell out of the enemy. Use it on the side to protect at least one of your flank and even better if you use it in the corner to protect your back. Don't use that formation in the middle of the map.

If that happens then it should be an easy battle.

Good thing the ai isn't smart enough and most of the time will send his cav first. This formation is going to be harder to use against an ''heavy'' cav composition from personal experience.

#HAMMER AND ANVIL BEST STRATEGY TOTAL WAR FULL#

The goal of using that formation and an army full of ranged is to kill your opponent before it is in melee range and if they get in melee you can still shoot them. Would it be better to use melee units in the frontal with checkerboard in the back?ĭepend on the faction but normally it isn't. The Ai will usually focus your unit in the first line, and with some space between units, your other crosswbowmen will keep shooting.Ī checkerboard of 4+ lines, would do a massive amount of dmg, ofc you'll loose some units, but you'll win the battle. Originally posted by La Hire:With a lot of ranged units, checkerboard make it so while a quarter of your army is 'tanking', the rest will keep firing.

Hammer and anvil best strategy total war