Does anyone have a firm strategy for practice battles and autobattles etc could u help? there are so many i dont no wich works and wich doesnt

Those that do have some sorts of strategy, would hesitate to reveal it or discus it in public, however I suggest you check out the Champions list and ask privately several of the leaders.
Most would be willing to part with some info or advice.

Your first tip....a little advance planning goes a loooooong way
Not always...but it helps more often than it doesn't (i.e. 'winging it')

The best thing to do is know your pieces really well in a battle. Know which is scissors, rock, paper by heart. Always try to attack with the rps advantage.

Know your ZOC, zone of control. You can't move from one enemy piece's ZOC to another enemy piece's ZOC. Therefore, you don't always have to build a wall of defenders when a broken line is all that is needed.

Defend your ranged pieces.

Flanking is generally ill-advised as you can get cut up in detail while still too far to help your beleagured forces.

Try to get the hex advantage where you have more potential attacking hexes than your enemy. Multiple attacks are what turn the enemy into a blood splot.

Flanking works great if you can pull it off, just ask what happened to Prancer on my first battle game. But of course it is best to know your troops, which work the best against so and so, how you line up your formations.

Make sure you are not spread all over the place when you make contact with the other player. If they have any idea how to play, they will systematically wipe you off the board...

You can also spend some time in the combat sim to get a much better feel for what troops work best against others.

Don't QUIT! Never, ever, ever give up. Even if you lose you'll learn something.

Why DON"T QUIT? If I see the battle is lost and i loose the same points anyway, why not save time and quit? Or this is linked with loosing points by the winner? Can smb. answer?

Just because it is good to always finish what you started.

I believe quitting is punished by losing the maximum points.

Where's the combat sim?

I cannot stand quitters and inactives and I do think they lose max points for quitting

@bloodmonger - as you can see, the tips you got here are nearly all in the online help manual and in Mog's great battle tutorial. The rest was a minor discussion on the merits of flanking and then a typical WOL arguement, this time about quitters and points gained or lost through quitting.

As I said earlier, approach the top battlers personally and ask them questions. Better still, try to play a battle with them. Even if you loose a few points, you'll learn fantastic lessons.

Why bother? Play practice battles instead, then you don't lose ANY points

Elader- The combat sim is at the bottom of the main forum page

somtimes its good to mix the line up a bit with having rock and paper together so you can defend agianst scissors and rock and paper.
easy way to rember RPS:
Rock is a defending unit eg. spearmen
Paper is a infantry attacking unit eg. swordsmen
Scisors is a calvery unit eg. scouts
just think of the role they would play on a battlefeild

infact don't listen to my mixed line up thing thats not as good as having a decant line up of paper vs rock
infact I think I'm causing more confusion than anything else so I'll shut up now

But above all else do not be afraid to try something new.

Wheeeeeeeeee! Kill everything and do it right NOW! How's that for advice?

good advice Mog
*Linkasy send loads of mini Links to kill all the Mogs*

Whoa I am a genius! All that time that little simulator has been there and I never even saw it... Hmmm Oh well someday I will ask a smart intelligent question that will stump everyone.

here's a question which evryone can get stumped by 'how can you say no to pie?'