Fire and Flee

[SurvivalistMerc]

Chazar,

I understand where you are coming from. It is kind of sad to watch your expensive iceclads die to routing troops toward the end of a battle. This is especially true when you're attacking an independent province. Later on, though, you might want to attack specific routing commanders. It would just about be useful to Caelum to have a query as to whether the fliers should surround routing enemies.

Everyone attacks routing enemies, but the problem with a race of fliers is, as you noted, the routing enemy will be surrounded with no way to truly rout, and the troops standing in the way will be attacked and usually suffer casualties. Making matters worse, archers still fire and kill your troops at this time, too.

I like this idea for fire and flee with regard to orderly retreats. I think I like the current rules better for morale failure routs.

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by Chazar:
Yeah, lets continue solving Caelum-related questions here, as the original thread got taken over by hobbits...

Heh. Looks like it's back on track over there now...they're back to the RotR weakness/strength discussion.

[Gandalf Parker]

Fire and Flee can be used with a few cheap archers put way out front to draw the enemy into a gauntlet. Gets the enemy to concentrte fire and cavalry on a few fleeing units instead of the wall of Hvy Infantry doing hold&attack/closest with crossbowmen on each side of them

[ March 07, 2004, 03:31: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Wauthan]

Fire and Flee got its uses. I use it when I massed a lot of archers in a high supply province and want to attack a into a wasteland or a bottleneck.

Also good for harrasing the enemy strongpoints if you got matching strengths in armies and noone wants to take the first blow. It's sort of a rare cirkumstances order but I'm glad it's there.