Editing User:Trungle/Cataphracts Idis/Recap (section)

=== Strategic notes ===

This game is much heavier in the resource management side of things than I first expected. When I first started playing, I didn’t have a clear vision of how all the mechanics of the game would work together and so I neglected to forage at all for the first few weeks, all the way until I tried to do a siege.

Having a large army can turn you into a nearly unstoppable force but it is also absolutely miserable to try to supply. You will have to halt constantly to forage. I only moved as fast as I did because I consistently neglected to procure enough supplies to feed my army.

Be mindful of overconsuming a specific area. I don’t think my victory over the Uuqitans can be entirely credited to me. Lt Palvis keeping his large army in the exact same spot on a narrow neck of land which was sparsely populated in the first place led to his troops becoming demoralized. This allowed my coalition to essentially burst in and crush the soldiers’ will. For this reason, I think it is fair to say I owe quite a bit of my victory to Palvis himself.

I think we can learn something else from Palvis’ example and that is the danger of obsession. Someone, be it Palvis or another member of the Uuqitan military hierarchy, was so focused on reclaiming Umehi-Tso, the captured general. Because of this, they spent far too long besieging Hounslow and then Ghenio. This obsession proved fatal for the militaries of both Uuqitan nations.

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