Prince of Macedon

A popular (on youtube) RTW player, and was the host of many popular RTW online tournaments. Under the patronage of Hader despite not having done anything or indeed regularly posting on TWC for a long time.

Prince of Macedon commenly plays as Macedon in online battles, due to his admiration of Alexander the Great (Who in his later year went mad with power). He claims to never play the campaign game of Rome: Total War because the computer tends to repeat the same mistakes, thus removing much of the challenge and fun (His online oponants arn't much better).

Prince of Macedon's fighting style

Prince of Macedon is a big fan of the hammer and anvil tactic, This tactic is central to RTW Online.

He likes to use light cavalry against heavy cavalry because heavy cavalry will get tired while pursuing the faster light cavalry, and if they stop pursuing then he can have his light cavalry turn and charge the heavy cavalry again and retreat before they have recovered.A tactic dependant on an attacking enemy Head hunting.

Sometimes 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.A tactic again dependant on luck or the idiocy of his oponats

The units he uses for this role are Light Lancers and Companions. Two of Macedons best Cavalry units

His favorite infantry melee unit is the Royal Pikemen because of their flexibility. They can beat any phalanx units except for hoplites, and they can also be the anvil of his army.Of course the same can be said of Roman Urban legions.

Royal Pikemen are also good swordsmen, unlike Phalanx Pikemen, and they have the same number of soldiers (241) on huge scale, as well as a big shield that protects them better than the aspis does the Phalanx Pikemen.

He also usually brings both Cretan and normal archers to the battlefield, so his Cretans can stay protected for a longer time and take out melee units from afar while the normal archers takes care of enemy missile troops.A tactic used by clans long before POM even opened the box of RTW.

Formations Prince uses

Prince of Macedon's battle line usually has infantry in the center. The flanks are evenly distributed with both light and heavy cavalry. Normal archers stand behind the Royal Pikemen and further to the back Cretan archers.

The battle starts...

Prince of Macedon starts running towards his opponent in an ordered fashion so that his enemy has less time to react to his formation, and to minimize casualties from missile fire from his enemy's archers.

He then flanks his opponent with light cavalry to lure the enemy cavalry away, and then attacks them from behind with heavy cavalry to gain the edge that cavalry brings to the battlefield.

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

He then makes 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 have engaged his opponent's infantry in the flanks, he crashes with his cavalry against the enemy archers to cause them to rout, and picks them all off so that Prince of Macedon is left with an overwhelming superiority in numbers.

This has not been used in his last 10 youtube battles so no doubt this god above us mere mortals has no doubt found a way to turn his blind luck and good timing in to a battle plan.

Common mistakes an RTW player does online (besides spelling ones):

Most players never bring light cavalry to the battlefield because they assume heavy cavalry is better. Instead, remember that light and heavy cavalry have different roles. Light cavalry can choose when to fight but a heavy cavalry can't do that against light cavalry. In short, light cavalry are faster and more maneuverable.

By bringing more light cavalry to the battlefield, they can give you that advantage in mobility that your heavy cavalry can exploit to devastating affect.

Many players, when they see that they have a greater number of cavalry, immediately charge with the cavalry with the opposite results than the friendly player who orderd the move expects just because the enemy cavalry attacks from the rear and flanks and massacre the routing players heavy cavalry just because they aren't fast enough to get away:Always have an anvil before deliver the hammer!

Now play Rtw online with greater knowledge and better skill!

After all I am the greatist player ever!

Signed:POM(The reincarnation of Alexander the great)