Setting up camp on waterway

[Mark Anthony]

Most of my armies are littoral and I never know how to set up my camp to protect it when my back is on the waterway and being attacked by another littoral army. How should I set up my elements so my camp is defended in the event of 4 enemy elements landing beside me?

[David Constable]

1) You can hope a single blade element in the camp will work, if you have one.

2) Deploy with a reserve near your camp, but the camp empty.

3) Draw your opponent into landing, hope to get a good PIP die, turn and destroy the landing.

Remember loss of the camp is not loss of the game.

David Constable

[Martin Smith]

Originally Posted by David Constable

1) You can hope a single blade element in the camp will work, if you have one.

2) Deploy with a reserve near your camp, but the camp empty.

3) Draw your opponent into landing, hope to get a good PIP die, turn and destroy the landing.

Remember loss of the camp is not loss of the game.

David Constable

All good advice -You can also have the camp in the 300 paces on one flank, then have your army in a line with its flank on the camp and its rear edge against or very close to the waterway. This means the opponent can't land by your camp (if you are invader, don't advance immediately, as the defender, moving second, gets a space to land in).
With that in mind, be careful about putting bad going at the extreme ends of the waterway, thereby preventing you placing your camp in good going on the flanks.
Martin

[Redwilde]

I prefer to set up in a way that might tempt the landing. Then turn and crush it like a bug while the rest of their army slogs across the field, woefully far away from the battle.

[Rich Gause]

I agree fighting against just 4 enemy elements is a good way to win. Be careful if the waterway is to your rear and the enemy has light horse, especially if you are defending. I had a blast dancing around my opponent trying to chase down my single LH littoral lander. Unless I rolled a 1 two turns in a row he wasn't going to catch me but he sure tried.................

[ferrency]

Originally Posted by Mark Anthony

Most of my armies are littoral and I never know how to set up my camp to protect it when my back is on the waterway and being attacked by another littoral army. How should I set up my elements so my camp is defended in the event of 4 enemy elements landing beside me?

I'm surprised nobody else mentioned this: If you're littoral and defending against another littoral army with the waterway at your back, you can defend yourself quite well by reserving your own 4 element landing force.

The attacker plays first, so if they land their landing will happen before your first turn. If they land, you have a flexible force that can land right where they are and beat them into the sea.

If they don't land, spend a few turns moving your landing force back up to your main line and get on with life. It's even quicker if you land with mounted troops.

This makes an attacker landing less likely since they know you can counter it, and less likely to succeed, since you can counter it

Alan

[David Constable]

Originally Posted by ferrency

I'm surprised nobody else mentioned this: If you're littoral and defending against another littoral army with the waterway at your back, you can defend yourself quite well by reserving your own 4 element landing force.

The attacker plays first, so if they land their landing will happen before your first turn. If they land, you have a flexible force that can land right where they are and beat them into the sea.

If they don't land, spend a few turns moving your landing force back up to your main line and get on with life. It's even quicker if you land with mounted troops.

This makes an attacker landing less likely since they know you can counter it, and less likely to succeed, since you can counter it

Alan

You can also retain four elements if the defender and your opponent is not Littoral. They will have to deploy all twelve, but you will have four to deploy where you want, and if you add the two s***s you can actually deploy half your army, while the attacker in fact has to deploy all their army.

David Constable