10-13-2004, 11:13 AM
I love the game. I played for the Scipiones (or Scipii as they call them) and for the Julii, playing for the Seleucids at the moment. Battles are fun although the AI is really stupid and spoils the fun sometimes. (you prepare for a big fight, just to see the enemy AI charge with their general first who gets slaughtered and his army runs grrrr)<br>
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Talking about archers. I had my personal Carrhae when I met the 1st aegyptian army in the game. One of my armies was attacked by 2 aegyptian armies. I decided to quickly destroy the first enemy army before the 2nd reaches me as they outnumbered me. over 4000 aegyptians vs my 2000 Romans. I managed to drive the infantry out of the field but then found out that this had put me into a bad position.<br>
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My army consisting mainly of legionaries with only 4 units of equites and Roman cavalry stood in the middle of the map when the 1st army fled and the 2nd enemy army arrived. My problem was that they had only archers, cavalry and many many chariots. Whenever my cavalry got too far away from the main army to drive the archers away, they were attacked by their cavalry, while it was impossible for me to stop their charriot archers from firing at my infantry. I decided to make a slow, covered retreat. The guys covering my retreat were slaughtered by arrows and when weakened the aegyptians overran them with their chariots and cav but I managed to get half of my army out in the end, lol. <p></p><i></i>
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Talking about archers. I had my personal Carrhae when I met the 1st aegyptian army in the game. One of my armies was attacked by 2 aegyptian armies. I decided to quickly destroy the first enemy army before the 2nd reaches me as they outnumbered me. over 4000 aegyptians vs my 2000 Romans. I managed to drive the infantry out of the field but then found out that this had put me into a bad position.<br>
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My army consisting mainly of legionaries with only 4 units of equites and Roman cavalry stood in the middle of the map when the 1st army fled and the 2nd enemy army arrived. My problem was that they had only archers, cavalry and many many chariots. Whenever my cavalry got too far away from the main army to drive the archers away, they were attacked by their cavalry, while it was impossible for me to stop their charriot archers from firing at my infantry. I decided to make a slow, covered retreat. The guys covering my retreat were slaughtered by arrows and when weakened the aegyptians overran them with their chariots and cav but I managed to get half of my army out in the end, lol. <p></p><i></i>
RESTITVTOR LIBERTATIS ET ROMANAE RELIGIONIS
DEDITICIVS MINERVAE ET MVSARVM
[Micha F.]
DEDITICIVS MINERVAE ET MVSARVM
[Micha F.]
