Chapter 12: Communication and Strategy.

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12. Communication and Strategy

Always communicate with your team mates.

The only way to win 2 v 2, 3 v 3, 4 v 4 games is to know exactly what your team mates are going to do and let them know what you are going to do. The way to victory is through team coordination.
You have to communicate:

- Where to deploy at start,
- What strategy as a team you are going to make,
- What moves to approach enemy,
- What you are seeing if you are closer to enemy units rather than your mates,
- What position for each when fronting and skirmishing,
- What the hell! Enemy cavalry is coming to me, to you …
- In what way to attack and defend,
- When to attack,
- When to charge,
- When help is needed.

Standard GUI for communication when on the battlefield is awful: too many options to select to say something to your mates.
I suggest in your preferences.txt file you set the option use_quickchat=1.
After this customisation, if during battle you press the Y key you can communicate with all the players and the colour of your text will be yellow; if you press the T key you can communicate only with your team players and the colour of your text will be green.