yiplong
Legionary
posted 19 February 2009 18:20
EDT (US)
1 / 20
You quit playing and learn English.
Octavium
Legionary
posted 20 February 2009 02:05
EDT (US)
4 / 20
Apologies in advance, but I find it hilarious that the Roman army brought 4 prostitutes along. To raise morale I assume!
Lumaca
Legionary
posted 20 February 2009 04:50
EDT (US)
5 / 20
Divide and conquer!
Put all your horsemen on one side of the map, and all your swordsmen as far from them as you can.
Hopefully, the starting position of the romans will be closer to your infantry.
If they start attacking your infantry, get your cavalry to start picking the Roman units one by one, luring them from the whole bunch as you go along. Concentrate the Swordsmen on the triarii, because Sword>Spear and Spear>Horse. If you can, try and get the enemy general as fast as you can, so that the Romans rout as soon as you hit them.
It's a lot of risk, takes a lot of maneuvering, but when you're outnumbered, you gotta take the risk.
ShieldWall
Legionary
posted 20 February 2009 05:31
EDT (US)
6 / 20
Nasty. Firstly I'd position myself in woodland if it's available, to give my swords a bonus and blunt the fire of the archers. Speed and violence is the only way to win this. The archers can be ignored as they'll be on skirmish mode and will back away. Even if they attack, they're crap in melee so who cares. I'd also ignore the cavalry auxilia as they shouldn't do much more than snipe at me and be a nuisance. They can wait.
I'd throw everything at one wing. Two swords with a war cry will attack whatever infantry is, say, on the left flank, and another to their right will hang back to counter attack anything that tries to flank them. The idea of this is that they can survive long enough for the cavalry to come to their aid. But the cavalry can't do this immediately because they will be swamping the one general on that wing, but as soon as he's dead will swing back to hit the attacked Roman infantry in the rear. They should rout, hopefully they'll take many losses in doing so, but whatever I'd let them run until the battle is won. After that, things descend into something of a brawl. The swords will hit each infantry unit as and however they can with cavalry hitting the same in the rear. I'd probably let the Noble cavalry do a bit of this while my general pins the other Roman general down in battle, and the nobles will have to get back to help him, should he need it, as soon as they can.
Assuming I still have an army at this stage, I'd chase down the archers, hopefully some of the auxilia will already be fleeing in panic or have got sucked into some other fighting and killed. If not I'd have to reset everything, maybe rest if I can, and trap each one in turn by flanking it with all cavalry.