Battle Formation Strategy Guide

First Hit

Since the attack would multiply by total units in a tile, then having the first hit would be the advantages. If there are two units faced each other’s with the same number, same race, same quality, same upgrade, the first unit attacked would definitely the winner. Your unit in the right picture would got first hit, while in the left picture, you gonna walk forward once, and then the enemies walk forward and hit you first.

Joined Attack

Every unit always attack once in a turn. So, what happened if two of your unit both encounter one unit of enemy? Both your unit would attack enemy once, but only one of them would be attacked back. In the left picture, only one unit would attack in that turn. but in the right picture, both your unit can attack both. This could be worse with three of your unit altogether attacking one unit. Is it worst? No. You may made it worse with archer behind your unit. Further more, you could also add elite archer behind those normal archer. But I doubt your enemy can bear the damage anymore after 4 attacks.


Flanking

Unit behavior in Battle Formation would makes a unit who encounter more than one enemy to attack the unit with has the least health. You could use this behavior to Flanking enemy unit. You need two unit, one unit as a main striker, and the other unit which has just one man in a tile as a decoy. Use both of them like Joined Attack, which makes enemy unit encounter both of them. Enemy would automatically attack the less health which is the tile with one soldier on it.
In the picture, the archer were strong against pikemen, so there would be a damage bonus. the line of pikemen with one unit on it were just decoy. The enemy would surely attack him because of his low health and archer were free to attack pikemen without being attacked. you could add one more archer to be the main attacker to gain more damage.

Covering Unit

We know that having a First hit is important. put a covering unit with just one man on it with a defense stance would makes the enemy got his first unit on a decoy, and then the main attacker behind the covering unit would deliver first hit. This tactic were seems useful in the picture, but in the complex situation, this could be pretty helpful.

Holding Aggressive Stance to Wait

We could make unit with aggressive stance not to move at the first turn with put a covering unit in front of him. See Covering Unit for more explanation. You might use this method if you want to use this unit later or just defense with a counter attacks. Or else you could use it to another purpose like you holding an archer save in the back while your other unit hitting enemies defender first.
See in the picture, cavalry and archer in the back would start to attack if the two pikemen in the front can't handle the enemies.

Effective Joined Attack

You could advanced Joined attack with add some archer like in the picture. But it's not much enemy put a fool formation like this.

Line of Archers

As a ranged unit, archer has an advantage to be untouchable. The picture shows example which fully uses this theory. This could be worse if you use elite archer, so you could form 2 layers of untouchable archer.  Even defender would think twice to pass your archer.


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