Prince of Macedon

A popular RTW commoner, and host of many popular RTW online tournaments. Under the patronage of Hader.

Prince of macedon as the name applies plays as Macedon in online battles and he never play campagn and this is because the computer always repeat the same misstake and after a while their is no challenge in it anymore.

A human player on the other hand is unpredictable and quick to learn new thing and as a result you get a rush when playing rtw online because everything can change in a instant.

Prince of Macedons figthing style

Prince of macedon as many players is a big fan of the hammer and anvil tactic where the cavalry has a decisive role.

He likes to use light cavalry against heavy cavalry just because if the enemy heavy cavalry pursues well then that cavalry is wasting time and also gets tired and if that units stops pursuing then Prince of Macedons light cavalry will charge that heavy cavalry units back and then retreat before the enemy heavy cavalry has recoved.

Some times he lures the enemy cavalry into an isolated position on the battlefield and uses his light cavalry as the anvil and the heavy cavalry as the hammer.

The units he uses for this role is Light lancers and companions.

His favorite infantry close combat unit is Royal pikemen because they can beat any phalanx units exept for hoplites and they can also be the anvil of his army a very flexible unit.

Royal pikemen are also good swordsmen unlike phalanx pikemen and they have the same number 241 men on huge scale and a big shield that protects the Ryal pikemen soldiers better than the aspis does to the phalanx pikemen.

Prince usally bring both creatan and normal archers to the battlefield so his Creatans can stay protected for a longer time and take out closecombat units from afar while the normal archers takes care of enemy missile troops.

Formations Prince uses

Princes batte line is usally as with so many players with the infantry in the center. The flanks are evenly distributed with both light and heavy cavalry. And normal archers behind the royal pikemen and further to the back Creatan archers.

The battle starts...

Prince of Macedon starts running towards his opponent in an ordered fashion so that his enemy has less time to adapt to Prince of Macedons formation and to minimize casulties from missile fire from his enemys archers.

He then flank his opponent with ligth cavalry to lure the enemy cavalry away and then attack them from behind with heavy cavalry to gain the edge that cavalry bring to the battlefield.

This tactic is copied from Alexander the greats tactic of luring the enemy cavalry away to allow his heavy cavalry to gain a better position on the battlefield.

Watch the movie alexander in the battle of Gagumela same tactic.

He then make a flanking action with some Royal pikemen to free up his cavalry for rear attacks and to prevent his opponent to make a new batteline further behind.

When his infantry units that made the flanking action has engaged his opponent infantry in the flanks he crashes with his cavalry against the enemy archer to lower the enemys troops morale making them rout and to massacre their numbers so that Prince of Macedon has an overvhelming superiority in numbers and quality.

How to win on the battlefield

Use troops in the manner they are supposed to do know the strenghts and weaknesses of each unit for example peltast quickly runs out of ammo and dont kill anyone as many enemy troops than the number of the peltast unit itself brings to the battlefield.

A better option than peltast:

Archers with long range and armour will kill 5 times their own number if properly protected and used let some archers fire at cavalry and close combat infanry while others kill other archers.

Make a good battleline from the start and keep reserves in place.

If your infantry is better than your opponent no infantry melee reserves is needed but place 2 heavy cavalry behind the center to exploit the gap that will emerge when your infantry rout the enemys but remeber keep flanks safe!

Note a phalanx is invulnerble from the front against a non phalanx unit but you can hold them in place with a single legionary first Cohort 3 ranks deep.

Have both light and heavy cavalry.Light cavalry lures the enemy cavalry away and when your cavalry charges the enemys back you charge in with the light cavalry.

Use terrain and weather to your advantage.

Attack enemy flanks and rear the reason for this is obvious a unit is strongest and has the higest number of fighting men at the front in a line but the line has an end and the tropps behind the figthing line of the first rows are there to fill any gap caused by casulties.

That is why the amount of soldiers in the end of a line has only as many soldiers on the flanks as in how deep your line is and if that flank faces the front of an enemy unit that unit that is attacked from the flank will break a lot faster amd with higer casulties on the player that didnt flank but was flanked himself.

Always make a balanced line never make your line too thin or too deep. If a line is too thin then the casulties will leave a gap that the enemy can exploit. A too deep formation will decrease the number of troops that can fight at the same time and also make your formation vulnerable to flanking actions.

Never attack an enemy flank if enemy cavalry is nearby because if you dont react and control your inpulses than the enemy cavalry will attack your cavalrys rear and annihilate it.

Common misstakes an Rtw player does online:

Most players never bring light cavalry to the battlefield because they assume heavy cavalry is better in a way that is true but remeber that light and heavy cavalry have diffrent roles. Light cavalry can choose when to figth but a heavy cavalry cant do that against light cavalry.

By bringing more ligth cavalry to the battlefield the melee type they can give you that advantage in mobility that your heavy cavalry can exploit with devestating affect.

Many players when they see that they have greater number of cavalry especially heavy they immidietly charge with the cavalry with the opposite results than the player expects just because the enemy cavalry attacks from the rear and flanks and massacre the routing players heavy cavalry just because they arent fast enought to get away.

Always have an anvil before deliver the hammer!

Now play Rtw online with greater knowledge and better skill!