[Discuss] Promoting the use of individual Battlegroups in Battle

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 5/16/07, James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Vogt wrote:
> >
> > Totally, and it is highly realistic, too. Humans can not stand a long
> > time of the stress of close combat. 15 minutes was the main time for
> > ancient battles (greece, persia, etc.) because after that one or the
> > other side would panic and run. Of course, there were hours of
> > maneuvering, artillery fire, etc.
> >
> > I've just added it. It's not as drastic as you suggested, but units
> > will now suffer an increasing morale penalty for every uninterrupted
> > round they are in close combat. It adds up fairly quickly. No unit
> > will survive 10 rounds of close combat.
> >
> >
> So are the battle times going to be changed as well?  Usually I see in
> battle reports "this battle took an hour" or two hours.  Another
> question, does this actually take out of your time pool?  After getting
> into battle I sometimes don't have my full hours from the turn and I was
> wondering if this is why.  A 15 minute battle I don't think should take
> an entire hour of your time (yes your men might be tired, but that
> doesn't mean you are, unless you're a hero you probably weren't
> fighting).  I like this though, it definitely adds to the strategy of
> staggering your lines as well, as the front lines of the enemy will
> quickly lose morale due to exhaustion.  However, I see a problem in
> this, after one battle morale will be shot.  It will give a huge benefit
> to whichever realm is closer to a place to raise morale.
>
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Tom was saying that a single battle had 15 min of close combat, and many
hours of positioning, archer fire, arctiliry etc. So just because we only
see the last 15 min of glory doesn't mean all the rest was missing.
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