I only win scenerio battles so does that mean I have good strat or just poor selection skills?

CL,
Upon examination of your record in battles, it would appear that whenever you play a level zero player you win...if you play someone over level 100 you don't. I didn't get to look closely at your game with Chickie to determine the story behind that one.

My best guess is that the experienced players who have gone against you have insisted on custom battles and the new players went with scenarios.

Your skills appear to be solid for your current level of experience. I would be happy to play a scenario game with you when we get a chance.
Cheers,
H.

sure let's set something up sometime.

as for my battle with Chickie... if I remember correctly, it was a toughie, but she made a crucial mistake or two (which she realized afterwards too) that allowed me to take advantage and win. I expect that if we rematched right after that, I'd probably not have been able to do that again >.>;

Well a nice Balanced Marks/mace/spears set-up can easily beat a set-up with HC in a 6000k battle, just recently i've beaten ethedog with a marks/mace/spears set-up while he had 4 HC in a 6000k battle, it's just about choosing the right postion and which flanking moves you should take out Asap

Senario battle are pure knowledge of the game, there is no lucky of the pick. If you can beat someone in a senario battle you can beat em in a custom its just the luck and/or knowledge of the troop selection.

dont send fodder (scouts, really any lowleveltype unit) at the HC it just allows them to level and become stronger... I like to counter HC with marksmen and other units to keep them away from my archers

i think custom is the best but i do see the same troops thing but when you start off with no range unit higher than archers and 3 rams and even a bali, a bali! when do you fight using balis?

I would hardly call marks/mace/spears a ballanced set up though Hanky, that's an HC counter set up. Someone builds an entire army of squires you're screwed . You can say, "well no one ever does that," but my point is you can't call a set up ballanced if it can't handle a wide variety of army types, and yours would be crushed by a paper/bali set up.

I'd call a balanced setup something with lots of ranged units guarded by units that cover at least 2 of the 3 possible compotents of paper/scissors/rock armies.

there is a reason that a squire and a pike match up to 250 points exactly bc they are soo raw, or a squire and a bali match up to 300, i tend to use those types of groups that add up to those and hten you throw in the mace and hc that are all even points 5 archers and 5 spear for some cannon fodder and using that right there pretty balanced in my opinoin