I can normally win battles now against huge armies using a marsh which only has 2 small access points. The enemy get completely wrecked. Their cavalry is rendered useless. I also use other natural blocks or position my men in between large rocks so the enemy will have only one way to go. The towns with the quarry are the best, especially the quarry tucked away at the edge of the map. The enemy have only one slither of a way through to attack. Shield walls are key. As are 6 or 7 archer units. I'm also en...

I want to make all the achievements. And for that, I need heroic victories. But there are none. I get hard victories, decisive victories, Pyrrhic victories. But no heroic ones. You have 300 people, and the opponent is 2000? You will get anything but a heroic victory, no matter how much you try. The last attempt, after which I am writing here. I have 1040 people, the enemy has 1400. I lost 180 men, the enemy lost all of them = decisive victory. What? It looks like I won't be able to get all the achievement...

Three of my armies chewed up so far. The Normans especially don't seem to have any weak units. All armoured, all tough. I think instead of lowering taxes I should have been building spare armies.

Long-time TW player who just picked up ToB. I have quite a few hours in modded TW's, if that tells you anything about my preferences: DeI for Rome 2; Third Age for Medieval; NTW3 for Napoleon ect. I have really enjoyed certain aspects of ToB: great path-finding and unit mechanics on the tactical map; very good optimization; good graphics and design styles; interesting, if somewhat unfinished mechanics, like estates; very good atmospherics (landscape, music, camera angles). However, there is one thing th...

Even though Alfred is remembered as a great statesman and church builder, he is having to maintain a state of perpetual warfare. I'll explain. Each time I finish a war the subsequent peace causes my fyrd level to drop and the number of units I have gives me a public order penalty. It's not as if I have outrageous numbers of men, I have the food and money to recruit double the armies I've got and I don't want to disband a load of decent units. I've taken to lining up a new war against a little faction (us...