Personally Engaging Entire Armies at a Time

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Thousands of men and women take part in the bloodbath that is this mod, and because of this you are going to run into situations where, just like in the Arena, you are the last person standing. Most people hate this situation more than any other, I will teach you to love this circumstance more than any.Let's ease you in to some scenarios and ingraine an understanding of what your options are:1. You're cruising around the enemyand your horse is downed from under you, men and women are coming at you from just about every angle, your infantry line is about twenty meters back. Enemy cavalry is present.Examining the problem, you know it is not that you are in danger, but rather that you won't kill as efficiently biting off such a large section of the enemy at one time. It will be a while before you are, so what you are going to do is scan the field.If you are NOT in engagement range of infantry or cavalry (keeping in mind cavalry are faster than you) then you want to turn around and run toward your line so as to allow you all to engage their line at once. The reason for this is you are much faster running forward than backward. I know, I know, I thought moonwalking was faster.At this point your objective isand continuing on your merry way.Examining the problem, you know it is not that you are in danger, but that you haven't already killed off the entire army yet. Keep yourself alive and look for ways of halting the enemy advance toward you. If you're feeling, it's because you're seeing the pattern of how we engage. Even when we're dodging, we're still attacking.Know your environment, if you see dense trees, it's time toso as tobecause war. While this happens, you want tounless they get too close, and that's okay because at close range you can stillwhile your army destroys the remaining one-half of theirs.2. You are alone, everyone is dead. Somehow you've survived, or you somehow went in alone against the entire enemy army. This is the greatest gift which can be bestowed upon you, and you will receive it with gratitude and you will tell your enemy thank you.You should be on horseback at this time. If you are not, engage the. If you are following procedure, these are the methods of personally bullying entire clans at a time, keeping in mind this is your opportunity to make the veryof your clan cause all other factions to immediately void their bowels.1. Begin laughing maniacally, and do not stop.2. Scan the field and note what your enemy is capable of, we will assume they are fully armed.3. Move far from enemy gunners, engage closely only if you are behind cover.4. Target cavalry, destroy all of them, (often including the enemy lord) they will charge first.5. Next pull infantry, not the gunners, allow the infantry to charge and kill them far from the gunners. If you know how, you may also pull infantry and then attack the gunners while they are vulnerable.6. Kill off stragglers, and remaining infantry while considering that some may be armed with spears which can gravely wound your horse.7. Prepare for the next wave, and destroy them using the same method.In the event that your horse goes down in the middle of this, you will engage in the same way. Often times the gunners will take your horse down if the elite naginata monks do not. If you are taken down from afar, thank the enemy cavalry for charging you and then get into thick brush so as to immobilize them. Destroy them using your naginata, being careful to avoid gunfire which will pass between the brush.From here, engage using conventional methods. runandbecause. Allow the infantry to run toward you and engage in the way you always do.Once the infantry is killed off, allow the gunners to advance. A useful geography for this is to force them to use an attack vector which only allows them to advance up-hill toward you, while you have cover behind trees. This is not always simple, as you want the forest to be on that very same hill, and thus this is most useful in a heavily wooded area.This relies on them having to get close enough to force the AI to switch to melee weapons, similar to when you were having rocks thrown at you. Engaging in this mosaic has very specific considerations, you will want to either engage the line from the side (placing the gunners in single-file formation in front of you) or to make them bunch up before they come close enough over that hill to be engaged.Doing this properly, and so long as the AIyou will have the opportunity to kill them all in melee. Keep in mind that you can bring the fight itself behind cover so as to attempt to keep yourself safe while the rest of the gunners take their sweet time to give up on using ranged weapons.Everyone has a different pattern while engaging, use what works for you, and trust only what works. Do not ingraine panic into your attempt at survival, you want to use the same proven method to engage, every time. If you are going to die, make the enemy regret the number of men and women who died to put you down, and horrify generations to come with stories passed down of your assault on the very idea of safety.One effective way of weening down from the concept of human dignity is to live in the arena for a little while, a few days, most of your life. You want to stop seeing people as personal fights and more as brief obstacles between you and their friends. This works the same with enemy lords, don't attempt to savor the conflict or make it personal, the only correct way of killing them is to do so in as boring, routine, and anti-climactic way so as to ensure their descendantstheir ancestor went down without a fight.