I, personally, can't STAND to have my guys fighting without personally directing each and every unit to try and turn the tide against the enemy. However, I've noticed that "tactics" is a foreign word to many players. Here's an example:
It was a 2v2, my team was Babylonian (me) and Assyrian, and the enemy's team was another Assyrian and Phoenician. Things looked dim for us right at the start with the civ combinations, but I still wanted to see my "newly discovered" Babylonians in action. Hit Bronze, got writing as soon as I could, then saw my ally - a relatively small clump of yellow compared to my field of brown dots; it looked like scouting and reconnasaince(I know I spelled that wrong The Assyrians struck. A parade of red Chariot Archers and Cavalry marched past my woodcutting operation and into my deep home territory. I quickly qeued(spelled that wrong too...) up some Camels and sheepishly warned my ally of Red's military buildup. I wasted the red attack force with four camels. I ended up making a ton of other camels in paranoia for a second attack that never came, which crippled my hopes of getting to Iron and probably lost us the game, but my main point has been made. Red had obviously just selected a ton of his units and right-clicked on the greatest concentration of brown dots he saw. He could have easily swarmed around my Camel Riders, killing them and doing horrible damage to my city, but he had paid no attention to the attack, thus turning what could have been a crippled enemy to a reinforced enemy who just turned Red's army into so much lost resources. What's your thoughts?
Calvin