ShieldWall
Legionary
posted 03 November 2007 13:29
EDT (US)
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Two words, armoured hoplites. I tend to have Greek armies as follows - 1 general, 1 cretan archer, 2 archers, 2 greek cavalry, 1 onager, and everything else is armoured hoplites. Rather a boring strategy I know, but the best thing to do is to form almost a ring of hoplites around all these other units. About five or six in a line, then three on both ends of it with each unit bending inwards a bit, 30, 60 then 90 degrees, and two spare hoplites at the back to block anything that gets around the side. Also take them out of phalanx formation and press the + key a few times to lengthen their line, which is a handy way of foiling Pontic chariots as they will make a mess if they get in behind you. But the basic idea is the hoplites will kill everything that is daft enough to throw itself onto their pikes, while your archers can concentrate their fire on other archers or missile chariots that will keep their distance. Take the archers out of fire at will mode and target them onto these units before they have a chance to damage you, ignore shots at their infantry because they haven't a hope against armoured hoplites so don't really need softening up. After that, chase down as much as you can with your minimal cavalry force - which should be minimal as Greek Cavalry sucks balls. This way you should easily win Asia Minor. Egypt may be problematic as they have good phalanx units, they love lots missile units, and they have a big enough economy to make stack after stack of them.