"Attack Rearmost"

[Wauthan]

Attack Rearmost could perhaps be called Attack Flank instead. It's still a good order to issue to your the units on your own flanks. If given the order to attack closest they tend to create a big slugfest in the middle of the battlefield were the units the back of the force block any retreats from the units in front of them. It makes for massive casualities.

With attack rearmost the units will spread out and with a little luck they will surround the enemy in the classic horseshoe formation. If put on hold and attack rearmost a very fast group of units can run right past the melee and indeed reach the rearmost enemies, but you would need to clear their path of any enemies. Attack Rearmost seems to work as expected only if the units can actually see the rearmost enemies, otherwise they attack whatever units they encounter first on their way to the back of the battlefield.

Attack Archers seems to work pretty well if one wants to reach the commanders. Many players and the AI tend to put archers either around or very near their mages in order to use them as bodyguards or maximise the benefits of spells.

[ March 09, 2004, 11:35: Message edited by: Wauthan ]