Battle balance

[Lucio Domicio Aureliano]

I still think that the phalanx is too strong in EB.

Also maintain a phalanx formation is extremely difficult for the soldiers.
Fatigue forces opliti to fall apart the ranks making the phalanx rather exposed to the attacks of heavy infantry.

An example is the battle of Pidna (Macedonians vs Romans), in which the Romans lost only 1,000 men against the 20,000 Macedonians losses.

The phalanx is hard to hold, much of the testudo. All the great generals of history have understood the importance of taking second or third line fresh, from Hannibal to Ezio ...

If you want to learn the classical battle of phalanges sought "phalanx oblique"

I read in one of the steles that some phalanx will be slightly weakened. I think it´s stele 1 or 2. Anyway i like the solution that the EB team has come up as long as we look to what phalanks300 said.

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

I think in EB is also a lack compared to pilum.

Points of damage pilum are too low!!!
Also it would be nice that the pilum had a secondary effect.

for example the units affected by pilum increase their fear or their fatigue.
That's because the pilum rendered unusable shields where stuck.

This side effect should, in my opinion, give qulche kind of disadvantage to the enemy in the next hand to hand.

[mikil100]

I think in EB is also a lack compared to pilum.

Points of damage pilum are too low!!!
Also it would be nice that the pilum had a secondary effect.

for example the units affected by pilum increase their fear or their fatigue.
That's because the pilum rendered unusable shields where stuck.

This side effect should, in my opinion, give qulche kind of disadvantage to the enemy in the next hand to hand.

I think Javelins as a whole in EB are quite weak, especially against armored uniform units.. but I guess thats the whole point.

[mikil100]

I wonder how much an effect the Roman artillery had in battles, I just don't see how it could make any significant damage, other than moral...

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

I think that the javelin is the right strength in EB.

But it is unlikely that a Gauls javelin is more harmful than a pilum.

[Ibrahim]

I wonder how much an effect the Roman artillery had in battles, I just don't see how it could make any significant damage, other than moral...

depended on the battle really.

but IMHO, I don't think we need to use catapults of the field type in EB2: they're a hastle, they were rarely used outside of sieges, and they do too much damage for their numbers (especially the smaller ones).

just me

[antisocialmunky]

They are a hassle but they have their uses.

[seienchin]

depended on the battle really.

but IMHO, I don't think we need to use catapults of the field type in EB2: they're a hastle, they were rarely used outside of sieges, and they do too much damage for their numbers (especially the smaller ones).

just me

No catapults but scorpions and other torsion weapons. They found masses of bit torsion projectiles
at a battlefield in germany 200 A.D. , but we know nearly nothing about roman warfare in the EB timespan via battlefield studies.