Strategy Before Battle

[skiylaroso]

Hey there,
im not so good about setting my ideas about, but i hope you can all understand it.

I have been thinking about this idea for some time, and even decided to use my amazing artistic skills and make little diagrams in paint

Okay, so you enter a battle, and normally, you all just rush in, kill or be killed, battle ends, but why not add a bit more Strategy at the beginning, before the battle is started you are presented with a Strategy Map, and on this map it shows the whole battle map

Spoiler

Red: Enemies Side
Gray: Neutral
Green: Your Side

You can position your troops only in the green bit, and only the green bit.

It will show lines where mountains are so you can put your archers on it before the battle

Also when ambushing a Caravan then you will have an advantage because, like in the little paint, you can position men around the whole caravan.

Spoiler

Red: Enemy Side
Gray: Neutral
Green: Your Side
Brown: Path

In most Ambushes, the army should be positioned on the road, and should keep progressing down the road until you go into the Neutral Zone, where they scramble to retaliate, also the Caravans should get troops actually Named Caravans, that dont actually do anything, but you have to destroy before the end of the battle, also if the caravans get to the end of the map on the path, then it should be considered as a failed Ambush, and you'll have to attempt the fight again if you want the loot the caravans are carrying.

Allies also get Squads in battle to easily manage on the Battle Map, where you drag their Squad Captains to a Spot, like Cavalry, Archers and Infantry, one will each have a squad Captain, Lords are normally the Cavalry Captains.

I hope ive put down everything in my idea down correctly, and you all like it

Thanks for reading
Also, English is amazingly my first language, i just cant type for crap..

 

[hayabusa12]

The attacker should be given a smaller portion of the map and the defender a larger portion.

 

[William Johnson]

This is a good Idea
Reminds me of Total War Series.
Not saying you got it from there.

Good Idea.

 

[skiylaroso]

Reminds me of Total War Series.

Thinking about it, i probably subconsciously did lol

The attacker should be given a smaller portion of the map and the defender a larger portion.

Well these were just Paint "Sketches" of my idea, of course you would need to balance it out before putting it in game

 

[Zilberfrid]

You could use the tactics skill to determine the size of your deployment area

 

[stygN]

I just fear that the AI would screw this up and place their troops somewhere really stupid.

Apart from that its good.

But in general I think the fields should be smaller, like 60% neutral, 25% defender and 15% attacker.

 

[Arch3r]

I agree...But this is mod-able too, I would mod it if I had the time and didn't went to australia ^^. Only the caravan ambush part will be hard.