Catapults withdrawing to knights and cavalry!

[Yakk]

An option:
Have "Range" and "Speed" flanking types.

"Speed" flanking is useless when in a city.
"Range" flanking is only half effective on defence.

When you attack someone, you take your offensive flanking and subtract their defensive flanking. That is your chance to withdraw from combat.

Base flanking:
Archers/Gunpowder: 40%+ range flanking.
Cavalry/Armor: 50%+ speed flanking.
Seige: 60%+ range flanking.

Higher tech units get better and better flanking.

Range upgrades to Archers, Gunpoweder and Siege exist, and Speed upgrades to horses exist.

 

[Arvedui]

Dont we get some bonous from attacking from hills and trees already?

AFAIK, the bonus only applies when you defend on hills, forest, or jungle. There is no bonus for attacking from these places.

 

[KMadCandy]

AFAIK, the bonus only applies when you defend on hills, forest, or jungle. There is no bonus for attacking from these places.

the text for guerilla 3 reads "+25% hills attack, +30% withdrawal chance". i do not know what that means, whether it's when you attack a unit on a hill, or attack anything from a hill, or attack a hill tile with no units on it. there is no woodsman 3.

 

[bassist2119]

On a similar note to the OP, and I intend no disrespect to the people of India, but anyone ever see an Indian run one and a half times the speed of a horse? Just shy of keeping pace with an Apache helicopter?

 

[NKVD]

you mean the little indian kid making marathon at like 5 years old ?

 

[Dominico]

When attacking another ship at sea you usually have to steam/sail/row towards it, since ships have the most guns on the side this puts the attacker at a massive disadvantage. This is why the French were so suprised when Nelson sailed directly into the side of their line head on and cut their line in half, it worked but his flagship got a pounding.

showing that nelson was a victim of the wind, and had no other choice then to break with tradition and sail straight into the enemy and was lucky to survive. wich history now calls a modernazation of naval warfare tactics.

He actually wasnt a victim of the wind, scribbles have been found from before the attack when he drew jotted diagrams of his attack plan. He had been toying with this idea a while before the battle. You make it sound like his hand was forced. But im getting off topic. He wanted to split the french line in two, and did so at great risk to himself and his flagship.

 

[LucyDuke]

On a similar note to the OP, and I intend no disrespect to the people of India, but anyone ever see an Indian run one and a half times the speed of a horse? Just shy of keeping pace with an Apache helicopter?

Just imagine!

 

[Greeneyedzombie]

He actually wasnt a victim of the wind, scribbles have been found from before the attack when he drew jotted diagrams of his attack plan. He had been toying with this idea a while before the battle. You make it sound like his hand was forced. But im getting off topic. He wanted to split the french line in two, and did so at great risk to himself and his flagship.

They have? I've always read/learnd he didn't really had a choice. Meaning when and where to fight and was a bit surprised by the french arrival. Do you have any pointers as where I can find this bit of history?
I'm a bit of a history freak.

 

[feldmarshall]

On a similar note to the OP, and I intend no disrespect to the people of India, but anyone ever see an Indian run one and a half times the speed of a horse? Just shy of keeping pace with an Apache helicopter?

i think that's not an Indian worker vs a horse, but a group of worker vs a group of cavalry travelling between big cities. either indian worker use faster horse as transport, or they need less rest than the horses and cavalrymen during the journey

 

[Dominico]

They have? I've always read/learnd he didn't really had a choice. Meaning when and where to fight and was a bit surprised by the french arrival. Do you have any pointers as where I can find this bit of history?
I'm a bit of a history freak.

Me too Greeneyed!!!

Here is the only link i could find. I read it in a magazine with really well printed copies of his scribbles. Some discount it as something else he was drawing but to me and many true historians (im just a wannabe) it looks exactly like a battle plan!! See what you think

http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conJmrArticle.32/viewPage/2

 

[Greeneyedzombie]

Domico,
I checked the link, but they didn't show any pics
And I found the article a bit vague. So I haven't changed my oppinion about it yet. But maybe he wasn't such a victim afteral, and there was some strategy after al.
But I will discuss it with my history group and see what they know about it. Although it is the wrong timeframe for us.
If you find more, pm me or post more.