Early Arcoscephale - Ephebophilia incarnate

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

One of the best use of Hold and attack, when you are set at the rear - is to string out non-homogenous troops.

One of my favorite things to do against mage-heavy armies is to set all my mages and troops to the back of the field, with the troops slightly in front and set to Guard Commander on a thuggish unit. The enemy troops on Hold and Attack will eventually reach you but they'll do so piecemeal, and will be quickly gobbled up by your solid mass of troops and mages (and skelly spam, etc.). Unless they're just too tough, of course, but then you would have died anyway. The worst case is that your enemy does the same thing and hits you with long-range spells until you die (or BEs like Rigor Mortis/Fire Storm/Wrathful Skies), so just make sure you've got some long-range spells too.

-Max