Low Cost Tactics

[Adept]

Thanks Gandalf, I've never been quite 100% sure of how the line-of-sight thing goes.

When it comes to javelineers, I'm a traditionalist though. I like having my heavy infantry form the line of battle, and the javelineers throwing over their backs, roman style. If the enemy line is too wide, the javelineers will help keep them from outflanking the heavies, and they will step into gaps that form when the heavies fall.

I'm just a sucker for the classics.

[Gandalf Parker]

That will work if your infantry are slow, or set to hold and attack. But if they run out ahead then the distance seems to decrease the accuracy.

I do tend to set my shooters to the side AND abit farther back than the infantry. That helps to keep them from being chosen for a rush by the enemy. Having the infantry just abit forward of the flankers helps to make sure they get targeted as they should.

[AreaOfEffect]

Battle placement is up field and down field. Not left and right flank. If you place units at the top of the screen, they will be at the top regardless of being the defender or the attacker.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

Battle placement is up field and down field. Not left and right flank. If you place units at the top of the screen, they will be at the top regardless of being the defender or the attacker.

You wanna fight about it?!

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

Battle placement is up field and down field. Not left and right flank. If you place units at the top of the screen, they will be at the top regardless of being the defender or the attacker.

I'm pretty sure they do flip.

Originally Posted by Epaminondas

That's too drastic a modification, I am afraid

It's still 5 gems for something that will only help you if your Nature-and-some-element mage spends several turns summoning creatures that aren't very good even at a lower price. Dragon Master only affects summoning spells for Cave, Fire and Frost Drakes and Wyverns, not Tarrasques, Iron Dragons or any other "dragon" summons.

[Psycho]

They don't flip. Top is always top and it is left when you attack and right when you defend. But the distance from the enemy is always the distance from the right side of the placement box. Yes, it's a bit weird.

[Tifone]

Wait, wait. Never casted dragonmaster. It only affects the caster and not the other mages?? Waste of wastes....