Promotions Strategies On Units

[Mantic0re]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I hold off on promoting until my attack. Sometimes I save one as a heal between attacks.

I almost never see more than 2-3 units over the limit to unlock the Epic. I might get enough points to unlock the Pentagon once every 3-4 game.

Either I bring too much siege and units get puny points / attack.
Or I bring too little and loose leveled units. I don't think waiting to give the same few units additional attacks is wise.

 

[stefista]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I hold off on promoting until my attack. Sometimes I save one as a heal between attacks.

I almost never see more than 2-3 units over the limit to unlock the Epic. I might get enough points to unlock the Pentagon once every 3-4 game.

Either I bring too much siege and units get puny points / attack.
Or I bring too little and loose leveled units. I don't think waiting to give the same few units additional attacks is wise.

When you attack without having redlined the defenders, do you attack "down the stack" or "up the stack"? The former means "most-promoted or highest-odds attacker first" and the latter means "least promoted or weakest attacker" (of the class of units meant to attack, e.g. swordsman, not your stack defender).

Attacking "down the stack" is what happens when you select the entire stack and order the attack. Attacking "up the stack" requires selecting the individual attacker to go first.

And the reason why I ask is that:

Attacking "up the stack" allows your strong units to attack with good odds and be continuously promoted to very high levels, while new, easily replaced units tend to either die or become highly promoted veterans.

 

[RecK0N]

i usually play with mongolia and devastate my neighbours with keshiks promoted like this : half of them flanking for withdrawn and the other half shock and combat . they must be followed by archers to defend cities you capture and some spears and axes. it works perfectly
ps:my first post