Tercios in this game are considerably more expensive than later tercios and pike and shot units because they have twice as many men as a late tercio and four times as many as a pike and shot unit. You lose a lot of maneuver elements and overall firepower this way. But the maneuver elements you do g...

War is the ultimate pragmatist -- what works, prevails. Bad or outmoded ideas on the battlefield tend to die. Pun intended... Hence my question. The early Tercio was historically replaced for a reason, yet in this game I see no reason to ever pick one of its successors in its stead. Why was the ear...

Certainly not my experience. I've found that victory has been largely driven by tactics and an understanding of how the different troops interact - waiting for the luck to run your way is a poor substitute IMO and will just lead to a string of defeats. Inevitably when playing the AI you do get a de...

Now I'm not even close to knowledgeable on 16th-17th century warfare, but there is this one thing I don't understand about the evolution of Tercios. I'm pretty certain this game vastly overestimates their combat capabilities, because if not I can't fathom why any of the historical powers would have ...

The program assumes that routers and pursuers are intent on the pursuit and hence have "tunnel vision" so ignore enemy ZOCs. The enemy take time to react as the routers and pursuers race past, so cannot intervene until their next turn. There are plenty of historical accounts of multiple u...