Tactic Page
I sometimes refer to troops that aren't missle troops as ground troops so don't be confused by this
The Missle Troop Tactic
this strategy consists of a lot of missle troops defended by a few defensive troops and maybee one elite troop. Useually people who use these armies have a lot of war machines too, and like to use hills and turrain. If you use this type of army you have to be aware when your defences are starting to fall apart, because missle troops are useually pretty bad at hand to hand fighting. also if you have troops with a fast rate of fire and/or slow enimies then you can destroy most of a unit and maybee get it to run or be completly destroyed before they even get to your missile troops. Spearmen are also good for defending missle troops. I love to have a long line of fences and a bunch of missle troops right behind it, and war machines behind them. You can also use a hill as a way to be higher then the rest of your army so you can shoot over them.
The Heavy And Elite Ground Troop Tactic
This strategy uses a few units of very strong and powerfull ground units. They useually march straight through the middle of you and hope they make it all the way through. These armies can be devastating and set off a chain reaction of fleeing units.
Massive Numbers Of Cheap Troops
Some people just get hundreds of thier cheapest unit and charge. They only have one huge wave of easy to kill guys, but there are just so many of them that they actually have a chance of wining. It takes a lot of strategy to win a evenly matched game of two of these types of forces.
Speciall Characters And Monsters
These games can be quite fun and fast. Using this strategy you count on a few people and if they fail your'e dead. You can have very powerfull magitians against kings and very expensive knights. These armies can also be the cheapest and most fun to paint.
Specific Tactics
there are many diffrent types of armies but it doesn't matter how good your army is if you can't use it. Also if you start with one strategy and something makes it impossible half way though the game don't be affraid to change tactics.
Through The Middle
This can be a deadly tactic if you have strong troops, but it can be eaten up by fast fireing war machines. If your opponet has a bunch of repeater bolt throwers, volly guns, organ guns or some other fast fireing weapon this tactic might not work unless they have really thin lines and you can get to thier War Machines easier. Also don't use this tactic against someone with really fast troops or a few really good troops. If your successfull you can get half the enemy army to run away in a few turns.
Charge!
This is just a full out confrontation. All you do is line up and charge into each other. It doesn't take too much brains to figure this one out.
Defense
stand back and wait for them to walk into you and fall apart and then destroy the last of them. This might not work if you don't have hills or they have a lot of long range war machines.
Attack To The Flank
Attack with most of your force on one side and then move across to thier other side. This will work well if they are doing just an all out charge on you, then they have to move some of thier troops half way across the board to deal with you.
Distraction
Use a big thing like a steam tank to distract your enemy while you attack the flank of the opposite side of the distraction. Then the other side attacks the distaction and you destroy the army in two pieces.