scragins
Heretic of December
posted 05 October 2010 09:44 PM EDT (US)
So recently i was studying Hannibal in HIstory and in a battle of his he used a a ring of iron if you haven't heard about it it's when you have a crescent moon shape of men and lots of cavalry on one side and a standard amount on the other your cavalry should then quickly defeat you enemies cavalry and the they close around the back of your opponents infantry creating a ring around the enemy.
Now occasionally while playing online people have formed a ring around my army and i was defeated easily i was wondering if this is a common strategy and if it is how successful is it if done correctly?
scragins
Heretic of December
posted 06 October 2010 08:54 PM
EDT (US)
2 / 7
So i guess i should try it out and hopefully it should work
Brass45
Infantry
posted 07 October 2010 03:22 PM
EDT (US)
4 / 7
Hmmm,it sounds to me like your talking about the Battle of Cannea,in which Hannibal originally had his men in a line,then slowly ordered them to pull back until he could encircle them (this is also known as a pincer movement).
If someone tries to pull this off in Napoleon,don't act stupidly and attack his center unless your in desperate need of a loss.Instead,gang up your army on one of his flanks;if he does nothing but camp,great,you just won.Otherwise,you'll pull him out of formation and possibly score some free shots on him if your fast enough.
If your trying to pull this off yourself though,the best way is just to overwhelm your opponents flanks through combined cavalry and elite infantry attacks (Old Guard were MADE for this job),then just surround your opponent.Cut off the escape route with cavalry,or skirmishers if the enemy cav's gone.Historically,surrounded units would fight viciously to the last man in order to break out,but napoleon doesn't have this feature.