Battlefield Tactics cheese

[otthegreat]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Aby puts his infantry at front on attack and mages at center on phoenix power, falling fires (range 25)

Caelum puts everything all the way back, troops guarding mages, and mages on thunderstrike.

Battle starts, Caelum defending. Caelums mages thunderstrike fine, but Aby will cast flare(!) because thats got the 35 range needed to hit enemy troops.

Could you set Aby's mages to phoenix power, attack, attack, falling fires or something like that to bring them in range?

Also I've used pillar of fire effectively as Marignon in the past. Since its a high research spell, you can expect to use it when there are large armies running around so the low precision isn't as terrible.

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by otthegreat

Since its a high research spell, you can expect to use it when there are large armies running around so the low precision isn't as terrible.

I don't follow the logic there. Once you're in the later game there are far less armies running around, rather you have specialised raiders, thugs and SCs.

[JimMorrison]

Indeed, Pillar of Fire is not a very accurate spell, which combined with the AOE=1 means that it's just not ever going to be as effective against smaller numbers, as Thunder Strike. On the other hand, it's F2 and 20Fat, whereas Thunder Strike is A3 and 50Fat. So it's significantly more spammable.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by otthegreat

Could you set Aby's mages to phoenix power, attack, attack, falling fires or something like that to bring them in range?

Caelum (or whoever) responds by returning to normal battlefield placement, with troops in front, and mages in middle.

What now?

The shorter range Abysia can guess about enemy placement, but he always eats the downside of the mismatch.

Anyhow, thanks for the comments. I guess it's just another reason why I can't see how EA Abysia has any chance in vanilla MP (don't know about CBM).

[Redeyes]

EA Abysia "has a chance" because they won't always fight against the enemy who is the strongest against them.
With nothing else luck alone can win a mp game, if you have enough of it.