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Opportunity Charge+detailed combat - 9/2/2006 1:58:00 AM

Gratch

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Is their any way you could turn of the opportunity charge option, my units keep charging and then they get disordered and then the AI attacks with cavalry, my charge makes the AI lose 400 and then their cav makes me lose 4000, this is really starting to piss me off.

Q This keeps happening, I and the AI advance into same territory. Lets say I have 3 armies totalling 180000, AI has 1 army totalling 170000. I go to detailed battle. Now I get 1 army at about 60000 plus one unit reinforcement. He gets 170000. This is really getting tiresome.

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RE: Opportunity Charge+detailed combat - 9/2/2006 4:51:31 AM

Joram

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I agree with you on the opportunity charge, it seems as if it puts you in a bad situation more often than not. However, you can control it indirectly by not moving all the way next to a disordered unit and attacking. After all, you normally do a lot less damage to disordered units to begin with so what does it matter if you don't kill 200 of them to save your self a 4000 casualty headache. Secondly use your cavalry to project zones of control so enemy cavalry can't slip in and attack your disordered infantry.

With regards to the battle size, it sounds like you have been unlucky. Page 62/63 describes in detail what you should be getting with regards to your enemy. If you are crossing a river and bad terrain while the enemy is just sitting in the province, you will definitely have some lopsided battles against you (and vice versa of course). But generally I haven't had an issue with this at all if you plan it right. Not that it should matter because as long as your army is of decent morale, you can easily beat enemy armies of twice the size. Much harder if you're playing a low morale nation such as Turkey or Spain. But easy if you're France or Britain. That is, once you get the hang of the tactical battles of course.

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