Post by maeglin on Nov 5, 2007 15:49:07 GMT
Just returned home from my exam 'History of Ancient Greece', made some awkward mistakes (made Aristagoras tyrant of the wrong city, got fooled by another question...) but anyways, a question about the Persian Wars made me think about the tactics the Greeks applied there.
For those who don't know, the battle of Marathon (490BC) and the battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) where part of the persian wars.
At the battle of Marathon, Greek Strategist Miltiades defeated a large force of Persians.
He put his weakest troops in the centre, where the persians had placed their elites (the so-called 'immortals') and his stronger troops on both flanks, facing the weaker troops of the persians. He then withdrew his centre, luring the 'immortals' away, meanwhile routing the persian flanks and turning to attack the persian centre from the rear, routing them as well.
I think this tactic could be easily applied in our game, for example with uruk hai, holding the centre with normal warriors (scouts even?) and pikes, with or without shielding and attacking the flanks with elites like berserkers, feral uruks, Isengard troll, warg riders (although nog cavalry was used at marathon). Would it be possible to defeat an outnumbering army this way as well? Goblins for example.
And Thermopylae, everyone knows about Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. At first they wher fighting with about 6000 hoplites, flanks covered by mountains on the right and sea on the left. This would be a typical tunnel fighting dwarf tactic, it's a school example of how to use terrain in the game.
Sorry if I've been talking about clearly obvious stuff, but I was so intrigued by these battles I thought I'd share it with you lot...
For those who don't know, the battle of Marathon (490BC) and the battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) where part of the persian wars.
At the battle of Marathon, Greek Strategist Miltiades defeated a large force of Persians.
He put his weakest troops in the centre, where the persians had placed their elites (the so-called 'immortals') and his stronger troops on both flanks, facing the weaker troops of the persians. He then withdrew his centre, luring the 'immortals' away, meanwhile routing the persian flanks and turning to attack the persian centre from the rear, routing them as well.
I think this tactic could be easily applied in our game, for example with uruk hai, holding the centre with normal warriors (scouts even?) and pikes, with or without shielding and attacking the flanks with elites like berserkers, feral uruks, Isengard troll, warg riders (although nog cavalry was used at marathon). Would it be possible to defeat an outnumbering army this way as well? Goblins for example.
And Thermopylae, everyone knows about Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. At first they wher fighting with about 6000 hoplites, flanks covered by mountains on the right and sea on the left. This would be a typical tunnel fighting dwarf tactic, it's a school example of how to use terrain in the game.
Sorry if I've been talking about clearly obvious stuff, but I was so intrigued by these battles I thought I'd share it with you lot...