Basic Battle Tactics?

[Ironhawk]

Oh and about commanders: Usually you want to pack as many men as possible under a single commander with a lot of leadership. Since most of your commanders are mages with low leadership anyway this is the natural way of things. The only time you want to break this format is when your commanders are being assassinated. At that time, it is more valuable to put fewer men under more commanders to ensure that as many of them as possible arrive at the battlefield.

[Raiel]

I just posted a new (guide) thread with some detailed plans/layouts; I don't know how helpful it will be in it's current form, but as an original post I should be able to go back later to edit it. I wrote it up earlier today, but much of what I included has already been mentioned by the forum regulars in this thread... I hope that doesn't offend.

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Originally Posted by Ironhawk

Oh and about commanders: Usually you want to pack as many men as possible under a single commander with a lot of leadership. Since most of your commanders are mages with low leadership anyway this is the natural way of things. The only time you want to break this format is when your commanders are being assassinated. At that time, it is more valuable to put fewer men under more commanders to ensure that as many of them as possible arrive at the battlefield.

I think it's safer to assume your commanders are always being assassinated, or if not this turn then starting next turn. Putting all your troops under one leader is asking for your armyless support mages to arrive on their lonesome in enemy territory.

There's no advantage I can see to putting everyone under one leader, except less micromanagement, maybe. You can't even break your army into smaller squads (if you like small squads) because you only get five squads per commander.

[Panpiper]

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Originally Posted by Ironhawk

There's no advantage I can see to putting everyone under one leader, except less micromanagement, maybe.

I had long been under the impression that the Sword of Aurgelmer and the Chalice affected only the units under that unit's command. But I just looked them up in the book and I now know that they affect the entire battlefield. So my intended insightful remark that the Sword of Aurgelmer and the Chalice are a good reason to put large numbers of troops under a single commander turns out to be not so insightful. ;-)