Give bad advice.

[Aramazd]

Never build infantry, all cavalry armies are faster and more effective

Autocalc battles especially if your opponent has a large amount of chariots

 

[flyingchicken]

Keep your archers in long columns, bundle them together in a huge box, and watch as their great dense pockets of arrows kill lots and lots of soldiers.

People who have tried this know why this is bad.

 

[Sashie VII]

You mean a lot of archer units merging into one gigantic mass of archers?

Hurts to see your archers die like that.

 

[flyingchicken]

Why must you ruin the surprise for those who haven't tried?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Use chariots in city stormings.

 

[RickFGS]

Take siege towers and onagers to assault stone walls. Send all the infantry to the walls and then destroy both sides of the wall postion where your troops are in with the onagers, leaving them on a isolated piece, this will really confuse your enemies.

 

[flyingchicken]

Make sure to rain heavy volleys of flaming arrows on whatever your melee troops are currently engaging to give them maximum support through firepower. There's a pun there somewhere.

 

[Sashie VII]

Use horsemen to flush out Heavy Infantry in forests. A cavalry charge there can be devastating.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The best Army captains are heads of skirmishing units.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

I have one that I myself did during the Storming of Syracuse... I never forgave myself:

-Whenever you have sappers chewing away at a section of the wall. Position a seige towar on that part of the wall and send up the best you got.

(For the record, this was like... a month after I got the game so I was still a noob )

 

[flyingchicken]

Make armies composed solely of Heavy/Onagers -- remember, they are merely suicidal troops that work best against large stacks of regular armies in the field.

 

[Kal'thzar]

Never build infantry, all cavalry armies are faster and more effective

we want BAD advice....or have you note mastered the use of all cavalry armies?



Bad tips;

Charge with your horsearchers; when the enemies fresh.
Send your general alone into the midst of battle, forget about him.
Harness the power of the Chariot against the Greek and Germanic Factions
Deploy troops at the bottom of the hill

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

we want BAD advice....or have you note mastered the use of all cavalry armies?

Harness the power of the Chariot against the Greek and Germanic Factions

 

[Sashie VII]

Be honourable! Make sure that your horses fight only the enemy cavalry, your infantry only vs other infantry and archers exchange fire with enemy archers. If they have no counterparts on the battlefield, tell them to retreat or just sit and watch if they want to.

 

[flyingchicken]

On cavalry armies: (not BAD)

Spoiler :

They only own if they have bows, in which case they can handle 1:10 situations with micromanagement, given that the enemy only has one or two archers and cavalry.

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Besiege an enemy city with pure cavalry to counter their archers.

Light troops work best against cavalry, because they will most likely blind the poor animals. Get it?

The phalanx works best in defensive mode off.

 

[RickFGS]

Make sure to rain heavy volleys of flaming arrows on whatever your melee troops are currently engaging to give them maximum support through firepower. There's a pun there somewhere.

Longshangs - Braveheart movie -

Longshangs -"Send in our archers"
Captain- "But sire...Wont we hit our own troops..."
Longshangs - "Yes...But will hit theirs as well...Attack."

 

[Aramazd]

we want BAD advice....or have you note mastered the use of all cavalry armies?

As flyingchicken said all HA armies are good, but I meant just melee cavalry. 20 units of cavalry might do well against archers, but will die quickly to spearmen, I should have been more clear

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

As flyingchicken said all HA armies are good, but I meant just melee cavalry. 20 units of cavalry might do well against archers, but will die quickly to spearmen, I should have been more clear

Usually the mass of my armies are Melee Cavalry... I have no fear of Spearman because if you can isolate them then catch their flank they will flee quickly. The only thing I fear then is Armored Elephants.

Which brings me to my best peice of Advice.

-Armored Elephants may be expense, but once you get em its fine to be reckless with them on the feild. They're Armored!!!

 

[flyingchicken]

"Good" stuff again:

Spoiler :

All cavalry armies can be beaten by non-phalanx/hoplite spearmen easily if they stay put. Just try using a bunch of cataphracts against the same number (in terms of cards) of those Nubian desert spearmen, then try forming an opinion.

Always use Arquebusiers against Urban Cohorts.

Always bring Yari Ashigaru to beat those Equites.

Always use your ninjas to assassinate princesses.

Never hire diplomats -- remember, as Civ taught us, all leaders have cellular phones, deeming those pesky middle-men unnecessary.

 

[Kal'thzar]

I've defeated phalanx armies with Cataphract armies before, its a lot slower as you have to peel off the enemy infantry squads one by one and crush them. But it can be done, and its easy enough to do...And no, I hate Chariots; too unstable in the main battle (unless you fight large amounts of Cav, then their good).

Just my thoughts