AGMEN
Agmen is a latin word meaning herd, flock, troop, body, mass, army on march procession, train, or column of men. Agmen is a word easy to pronounce in any language… so maybe it will be a good idea to name the game AGMEN.(Remneb)
Protect your first row.
When a column is built against you, the better way to stop it is to open your first line, where the impact will come, and close the second one. If the enemy kill your first soldier at the second row,that line of soldiers can close the gap… and the first row (the winning row in fact) is still intact.
Close any holes.
All your army must be a connected formation. Units must be parts of a defensive rank or an offensive column.Any units who are alone in the field are of no use for immediate defense or offense.
Frontal attack.
If you are planning a frontal attack, be sure that your phalanx will have enough ground. The calculation is easy:if you have a column of 5 units but no empty square in front or at the rear, and the enemy have also 5 units but an empty square in front or at the rear of his phalanx,then he can make a phalanx of 6 and your own phalanx is dead !
Defense-offense
An army in the field have always a line of defense and a line of offense. The task of the defensive part of a combat line is to stop an enemy attack at the same time that the offensive part of the line try to push or to break in several parts the enemy line in front of the advance units.
In a game with the same amonth of units on both side of the board ( like 2 armies of the same size ), you cannot be in force everywhere.So, you must have a wing in defense position and a wing in offensive advance.
The idea is that,you must never have an empty wing just because you think that if you mass the major part of your units at the same side of the board, you will surely win the game! In fact you will never have the opportunity to lunch a general attack with several columns of units on the move. Your opponent, if he know is job, will surely attack you all along your flanks! Your columns will be cut into many parts. After that you will have an empty wing open for the enemy and no offense at the other side!
Hit and run
If you have for a short time no real opportunity to launch an heavy attack,try to weake the enemy line, using 4 or 5 units,always where the enemy is at building a phalanx. Always attack the flanks of the enemy. Kill some units then return to the main lines. The idea is to create holes in the enemy lines,so he will have some of his units not connected to the main formation.And like you already know,units out of a formation is of no use for defense or offense !
Remember that, if you can kill, then kill with a maximum of forces. When you move for a hit,move all the phalanx on the target.The main purpose of it is to occupied the field where you have maked the killing.The enemy must see that not only he lost some soldiers, but also part of the battlefield!(Remneb)