Pursuing a feigned retreat gets all of the glory but letting a retreating army regroup instead of following up is probably a more common source of military failure.
SocratesPuppet on
Op how many accounts do you post on?
Significant-Bother49 on
Alexander the Great was playing a Total War game. As the main player, he was able to manually fight battles.
The only problem was that he played because he enjoyed the battles and not the kingdom building or economy aspect. And when this led to his armies taking attrition he logged off. We’re just living in the game continuing with ai factions auto resolving against each other, waiting for him to log back in. The Macedonia faction is going to really take off when he gets back.
Azylim on
I like what limu did. which was do a widescale region wide feigned retreat where every minor raid he had all the civilians and soldiers retreat to nearby fortified areas, minimizing casualties and economic loss
eventually it the Xiongnu that overextended and they sent a sizeable army to try and raze the region, before they were subsequently trapped and annihilated.
Bro was unironically so good at defense that the superpower qin had to assassinate him to beat the weaker zhao, and he was the primary obstacle to qin steamrolling everyone from their massive geographical and demographic advantages
Geolib1453 on
He is a genius.
EatLard on
How many generals after Alexander’s time failed to learn this lesson? A lot, that’s how many.
Ok_Knowledge_5496 on
Minor spelling mistake your opinion is now irrelevant
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To be fair, Alexander was the Great for a reason.
There was also eventually developed a method of following, but at a distance, eventually done by the Mamluks against the Mongols.
This Alexander guy is pretty great at war…
It’s the [Battle of Jaxartes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jaxartes) if anyone’s wondering
Pursuing a feigned retreat gets all of the glory but letting a retreating army regroup instead of following up is probably a more common source of military failure.
Op how many accounts do you post on?
Alexander the Great was playing a Total War game. As the main player, he was able to manually fight battles.
The only problem was that he played because he enjoyed the battles and not the kingdom building or economy aspect. And when this led to his armies taking attrition he logged off. We’re just living in the game continuing with ai factions auto resolving against each other, waiting for him to log back in. The Macedonia faction is going to really take off when he gets back.
I like what limu did. which was do a widescale region wide feigned retreat where every minor raid he had all the civilians and soldiers retreat to nearby fortified areas, minimizing casualties and economic loss
eventually it the Xiongnu that overextended and they sent a sizeable army to try and raze the region, before they were subsequently trapped and annihilated.
Bro was unironically so good at defense that the superpower qin had to assassinate him to beat the weaker zhao, and he was the primary obstacle to qin steamrolling everyone from their massive geographical and demographic advantages
He is a genius.
How many generals after Alexander’s time failed to learn this lesson? A lot, that’s how many.
Minor spelling mistake your opinion is now irrelevant