Quick & Dirty Tips: Battle Map

Tips to help master Thrones of Britannia combat.

Introduction

Here are a few things I've learned through practice. I imagine that this information will be useful for all difficulty levels though I usually play on Very Hard battle difficulty,

This guide may continue to grow as I come across more tips and tricks that I think will help other people progress in their own games.


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Unit Roles In Thrones of Brittania

1. Shield Castle

Units with shield castle are generally meant to be used as your main infantry line. Use these troops to hold the line, braced and in shield castle, in order to reflect charges and hopefully outlast the opponent's own infantry line.

2. Wedge Formation

Units with wedge formation are built to be used as your shock troops. Use them for flanking and filling gaps in your main infantry as needed. I like to use wedge formation for the initial charge and then toggle it off to recover melee skill.

3. Melee Skill

In Thrones of Britannia, melee skill is king. Melee skill dictates the accuracy of the unit's attacks, as well as how often they can dodge enemy attacks. Always try to recruit units with higher melee skill if you can.

4. Archers

I've found that archers are pretty weak currently but they can be surprisingly useful for working down enemy cavalry. Bring 2-3 archers and be sure to use flaming shots as they provide bonus versus cavalry. Keep your archer hit squad safe with a decent spear guard.

5. Cavalry

Cavalry are not the beasts that they were in TW:Attila but they can still be useful for clearing missile units and assisting with out-flanking the enemy. I prefer using archers over cav-vs-cav situations as it is easier to avoid casualties on harder difficulties that way. If there is no safe path to the missile troops, just let the enemy waste their ammo on your shield castle formations.

6. General Bodyguard

Your general bodyguard will usually be the best unit on the battlefield but take care in how you utilize this resource in battle. If the general himself dies, you lose your campaign investment.

I usually reserve the body guard and only use it to fill in gaps in the main infantry line while knowing with full confidence that the body guard will have an easy time dispatching their target.

During battles, you will receive an alert if the general body guard's model count falls below 40%. Once this threshold is reached, the general himself has a chance to die in combat. So beware!

Total War Battle Tactics In General

There are basic tactics that can followed through most total war games whether you are playing Shogun, Warhammer, or Thrones of Britannia.

There are a few guides out there already spanning across those multiple games. I recommend checking out the following guide created by Voth.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=404969412
It is tailored towards TW:Attila but the core of it still very much applies in this title. Be sure to check it out if you find yourself struggling to get a win!

[ivan_rn]

1. Archers can provoke the enemy's army to a large-scale attack. They are also good against enemy archers and units without shields.

2. The shield wall is excellent for blocking the arrows of archers. They waste all the ammo, and after that, your army may start to attack the enemy.

3. The shield wall is a good formation against the frontal attack of all types' units. Troops in this formation fight long and suffer fewer losses. That's why you can put 4-5 units against 6–10 units of enemies. Also, in this case, time is your friend because your reserves can attack enemies from behind and flanks.

4. Cavalry are pretty good for attack from behind. The ideal variant is if enemies fight with your units in the moment when your cavalry charges.

[Levie]

I believe Creative Assembly changed General unit vulnerability in one of its patch after I created this guide. I'm not sure which patch it was, but in the final patch I did find this note: "During battles, there’s now an alert when the model count of the general’s bodyguard unit falls below 40% (which makes the general himself vulnerable)."

So it seems that it is pretty safe to use your General unit now as long as his body guard stays above 40%.

[AGuyAndHisDog]

The General cant die until 80% on the unit is gone, I always use my generals in combat in the thickest fighting. Get as many command points for a bigger unit is smart because he will rarely if ever die. Getting Legendary Generals is almost to easy this way.

[shrike]

Thanks for the guide

[Lord Haart]

Sweet

[Milites]

Try to position archers in the woods so they could sniper enemy without being spotted. And i dont agree to put general bodyguard(only for those foot bodyguard, gaelic and welsh factions have cavalry bodyguard, that is a different situation) in reserve, because they are very powerful in melee combat and should be deployed on the frontline to maximize their effect. moreover, the general bodyguard behind the battle line can be an easy target to enemy missile troops. even if with shield wall formation the casualty is not slight. so just put them in the middle of the frontline (so the flanks are not exposed) and hit enemy hard

[Kristian GG]

Can you tell me how to download this mod

[BananaGuy]

Castle*

[BananaGuy]

Regarding Shield Wall, I had done some research and apparently it doesn't do anything to reflect a charge, it only increases missile block chance. If you keep your men in a steady position and don't have them move, then they will brace automatically and do better at deflecting the charge.

plus I believe you lose melee skill when in shield wall.

[Geoff]

super helpful for someone like me who is just jumping in, thank you!