ulm black forest

[High_Priest_Naresh]

thank you as for sanguine heritage I did not know about this and as for villains the only reason I use them is because they can shoot every turn.
the wolves I use as fodder for my defense they run in kill a few people or slow them down and suck up arrows too.
ghoul guardians are good if I have and unholy priest so that he can protect them from banishment
here is a formation for my main army:
* god % wolves
^ ghoul guardians ! mages
$ archers £ infantry of ulm
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(this has other commanders but they are not shown)

[Oversway]

ascii diagrams rule

[High_Priest_Naresh]

what does ascii stand for
and are you being sarcastic sometimes it is hard to tell...

[Oversway]

ASCII stands for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'

No, not being sarcastic. I have a nostalgic appreciation for ascii (and similar) diagrams.

[Endoperez]

ASCII is a way of saving/encoding/keeping track of the letters of the alphabet, both big and small. ASCII and its predecessors are needed to make writing possible. Roguelike games, like Adom or Dungeon Crawl mentioned in the Newbie's First Impressions thread, use ASCII instead of graphics. Player character is presented by @, orc might be o, ogre O, dragon D, Demons in Crawl are presented by numbers 9-through-1 with smaller being more powerful, etc.

[Oversway]

I often send my wolves to attack archers...especially if I'm facing crossbows. Wolves tend to die fast but they at least keep the crossbows from firing a few turns it can help.

[Truper]

I'm going to disagree that Sanguine Heratage is necessary or even desireable for BF. By the time you can get Counts, what are they going to do, exactly? They need a lot of equipment if you want to use them as thugs, so you risk all that equipment even if you only use them in your own dominion. As mages, they aren't especially useful.

[sushiboat]

High_Priest_Naresh said:
here is a formation for my main army:
* god % wolves
^ ghoul guardians ! mages
$ archers £ infantry of ulm
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You put your fastest troops, the Wolves, out in front. I like to create a formation that will allow all melee troops to meet the enemy at roughly the same time. Try putting the infantry front and center and the Wolves back and to one side. Give all of them Hold and Attack Closest orders. Then the infantry will meet the enemy forces in the middle and the Wolves will hit them from the side.