the importance of agressiveness

Vermin · Post by **Vermin** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:59 pm

"Chasing down and killing a spearman is good, rushing across the bridge to engage the entire enemy troops is bad. This also refers to melee units. "

True, but sometimes units get thrown at lines to force a reaction.
THEY might not have a real plan, but the mop-up unit behind DOES, it's just waiting for events to tell them what it is.

When I fought in Confed that's what we did, and we did it DAMNED well.
We were cohesive shock troops because we fought together so much, and we were also effective because we could field 30 (or more)fighters from our household.

Our plan was to regroup in the enemy reserve, and that was about it......

We made holes in lines and tied up enemy resources, it was up to the units behind us to exploit them.

Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn't.

VvS

Gregor von · Post by **Gregor von** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:30 pm

This is an interesting post. Because this is my main weakness right now.

Of my many loses there is one fight I wish I could get back. I lost in about five seconds. This fairly new young fighter just ran up on me swinging like mad and caught me. (%@^^#@ !!!) And because I was not at all paying attention, I didn't realize he was a lefty until the fight was over. (double $#^*%$ !!!) He was ready & up for the fight and I wasn't. I thought I was going to take my time and see what this guy was all about. And he just surprised the heck out of me.

A bad way to loose but I sure learned from it.

Agressions a good thing on the field. As long as some one's not dangerously out of control, hurting people, or taking everything way too personal, it's fine with me. When I see agression on the field I know everyone's really having fun and doing their best to win. A Ho Hum day of fighting, (because the guy's you are fighting are not trying too hard to win) kinda sucks.

Samuel · Post by **Samuel** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:51 am

Gregor,

One of the benifits about being left handed is you can catch people off guard a lot if your just balls out on em like a tornado throwing shots like mad... trust me on this .. I won a few tourneys as a new fighter doing just exactly that........

I tell everyone I work with, the time to size your opponant isnt when your on the field by then its too late... watch them before you face them or if its your first round take a summary glance over the combatants and get an idea of what they may be using for advantage.. aka while your getting the introductions and pairings.. take stock of whos tall, who has long weapons, big shields, moves like they know how to in kit, which hand are they dominate with, what style they prefer, whos short, and listen to what others around you are saying... if joe snuffy lets out a UGH cause he has to face Sir thigh smacker... you know something you didnt before..

Gregor von · Post by **Gregor von** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:25 pm

Boy don't I know it now. But that's experiance I guess.

(Sir thigh smacker is my friend & he won't leave me alone.............ugh.)