I just wonder if you have any.
For example I like deceres , spartans ( because they helped me out greatly in my Greek campaign) and amazons.
I just wonder if you have any.
For example I like deceres , spartans ( because they helped me out greatly in my Greek campaign) and amazons.
Scorpions... They always amuse me, and they're pretty useful too.
*Note, I play RTR, so my scorpion units have 4 machines each... Makes them far more effective in field battles*
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SCORPIONS????????
Excuse me if I offend you but I thougth them to be useless , but as for siege machines I ussualy use onagers and heavy onagers ( ussually normal ones ).
Scorpions are longer ranged than ballistas and also more accurate which mean sthey're very good at picking defenders off of stone walls which somewhat makes up for their inability to knock out gates. Other than that they're just as useless as other ballista type weapons everywhere else. Unless you've modded the game of course to give each unit more engines.
I like using them just for the hijinks of skewering people and flinging them backwards screaming
Last edited by Es Arkajae; 05-15-2005 at 17:27.
its allways funny when you snipe an enemy gen with a scorpion. especially when the camera closes in to see him whooshed away lmao. btw my current fave unit is the Armenian Cataphract archers.
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Just wanted to add that it would be cool if you explain why do you like unit you mentioned.
I've played Julii, Gaul, Macedons and now Pontus. The Foresters are my favorite unit, as they have a starting 15 missile attack which can become 21 after building them in epona and retraining them in abnoba. They have a long range and are also good melee fighters if need be. In every case 4-5 units of these can kick seven shades of hell of a 20 unit army. I've yet to try the pontic chariot archers (just bult 2-3) and i look forward to play as the Brits to test the Head Hurlers. In a custom battle i destroyed an Urban Cohort with a unit of Hurlers, loosing just a man.
Tanks, aka the armored elephants!
I love to storm cities with them, make them run through streets full of roman legionaries and watch the little men with no where to run, learn how to fly I've had a unit score hundreds of kills that way in one battle
SPARTANS as inf
Foresters as archers
Cataphracts as cav
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War Elephants and Armoured Elephants are the game destroyers, but you have to love them for what they can achieve on the battlefield. They completely destroy anything. And when they do go down dead, they squash whoever is nearby. Hurrah for the big floppy eared giants.
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My favourite unit has to be...
Cataphracts, if only for their cool armour.
wow we have a fanatic boys
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That would be an unstoppable army but those are by no means my favourite units. Sorry, I was kinda off-topic.
oh oke
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Cav ; sacred band / legion
Archer ; Cretans
Infantry ; legionarry cohort ( plain and simple )
Legionary cohorts and
cataphracts
Just a point I've been wondering about:
How do Silver Shield Legionaries compare with Roman Legionaries?
silver legionares were the elite of the seleucid empire, the romans were not
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its gotta be spartans, they just stand there and poke to death, whilst being poked to death or bring trod on by elephants!
War Dogs... Its fun to see a pack of dogs charge scared peasants.
i chose Cat archers for flexibility, they combine armour, mobility and firepower in one easy to use package :)
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Hastati. The only downside is their shade expensive upkeep. Actually, I like the trio of Hastati, Pre-marius Roman Archers and Equites working as a group.
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Cataphracts all the way. Cataphract archers are really close though.
Right now, as Greeks, standard hoplites. They've taken everything the enemy has thrown against them, and not disappointed me once. Woe betide any horse unit that charges them (with the exception of Cataphracts). Woe betide also any infantry unit that charges them. They're cheap but they deliver. Armoureds are better, of course, but how are you going to get them everywhere like you can Hoplites?
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General's Bodyguard, even in RTR. They always pull battles out of defeat and into victory and factor greatly into the strategy I use to plan every single battle.
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Urbans or Legionary first for infantry, they are very powerful and flexible
for cav it has to be katatanks, i wish they were the companions, but they just dont do the job...
and for missile its all about pharaohs bowmen
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Even with normal numbers of machines I found them to be quite useful. You just have to fire them at a elite unit. Same with MTW, ballista crews were the best king killers ever.Originally Posted by Es Arkajae
ballearic slingers.
pretty powerful, good range (equal to some archers), and an immense amount of ammo. i've never seen them run out, so they're with you for a while. they rack up those chevrons quick.
but that's about it, i wish they were available in custom battles. (same for cilician pirates, pretty damn good units, javs + axes-deadly. wish i could use them in custom battles)
but that's about it, it's not so much a favourite unit, as all units (except the "fantasy" and uber units -urbans and such) have their pros in cons in every situation, so it's mostly what is best for a situation.
but berserkers. i dunno, i ALWAYS make my general unit zerks in custom battles, but they're a little cheap, and more of a fantasy unit... so i don't use them very often. so i won't count them. but i love having them as my general, everybody following behind a frenzied bunch of fanatics, charging unceasingly at the enemy...
so, in short, i really really dig ballearic slingers
Maybe if you're on drugs or possibly had a stroke and lost all perception of reality.Originally Posted by dgb
The things are so inaccurate and so short ranged and slow loading that you would be far better off investing in a unit of archers whch would kill far more of the enemy than a pair of ballistas or scorpions would on a battlefield even on a good day.
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