Celts (BI faction)

**Celtic_Punk** · 12-04-2007, 03:42

k i took saxony and the 2 provinces due south, however, im meeting HUUUUUUUUUGE resistance from allemani, whom betrayed me, aswell as the burgandii

im stuck between a rock and a hard place

if i leave europe, ill lose many men, gold, and probably go into debt, as my irish english welsh and scottish provinces make no money, but if i stayh and try to hold on, i feel ill be overrun, and i cant seem to get diplomats thru because i have to throw my funds onto getting soldiers from england to europe and build up in europe.... i can see why these guys arent a playable faction lol

what is the best combo of troops, my main downfall during seiges is the lack of missile units, i just have kerns, and they dont take out seige rams well... so their cavalry units get thru and mop up my infantry and over run my cavalry

can i still use that patch for the missile units with my save game?

**Celtic_Punk** · 12-09-2007, 00:26

absolute craziness, the damn romans pissed me off, so i sent about 10 assassins at their best generals and govenors... needless to say, most of them failed and now im in a huge war, the romans, allied with the alemanii, have taken frisii, and the province south of it ( which was pumping out my pict crossbowmen ) and all i have is the north shore of Europe and the british isles aswell.. the burgundii have settled down now, and ive gone neutral with them and trade... I think i woke the sleeping giant with rome... my only hope is to kill off the alemani as quick as possible so i can try to reach a defensible border with the romans. but right now ive fallen back into a defensive war... incredibly hard, and i lose lots of money and family members.

how do i get the man of the hour thing in barbarian invasion... it seems alot harder than it did in the base game

**Centurion1** · 04-02-2008, 02:23

I find that after one heroic victory or a few sieges then i get man of the hour.
I am in a Vh/Vh campaign right now and i am loving the Celts. After making pictish crossbowmen more common and grall knights more common mercenaries (king arthur was a celtic Briton after all)

I am now moving into northern gaul. However the franks are now putting up stiff resistance to every landing i make, meeting me with full stacks every time. I beat them down with the hounds of britian, but am too weak to take and hold cities. The romano-british were definently overated earlier in this post and had me worried, but one charge with four family members and a grall knight at their general absolutely broke them and had them fleeing with their tails between their legs. Can anyone say HEROIC VICTORY. So i guess i will turtle in britian for a while and completely upgrade my cities and revamp my armies.
The one problem with the celts are the pirates i cant even roam the seas with my ships but have to hide in my ports! I'm figuring on clearing them from my seas with some massive fleets on constant patrol around the isles. Is tara a money pit for anyone else?
Oh well off to kill more franks for morrigan

**Celtic_Punk** · 04-03-2008, 21:38

the key is to keep your generals and governors from becoming trash, dont use any tax over normal, and you get bonuses to your management. If you go under as the celts and youve already invaded the continent, your in a world of hurt. I suggest sacking most if not all settlements at that point and trying to ferry troops back across like its dunkirk before dunkirk actually happend haha. I pulled myself out of 60k debt as celts before but only because of my walls, so make sure you get stone walls on your forward settlements ASAP

im trying a new strategy now, stick within my original borders, and just raid the western roman settlements in britian, and then once i make myself about as arich as your everyday jew ill move out!

**Yaropolk** · 07-14-2009, 22:55

Originally Posted by Magraev

Slavs as playable and Roxolani as unplayable - shouldn't it be the other way around? I've tried modding in the Celts btw and it worked just fine - crappy missile-troops though (only javelins), and inferior berserkers compared to the lombards.

Just make sure you make that backup.

Hounds are better than berserkers - they are available with a 1 turn built temple and are armor piercing. Have a training center for them somewhere in teh back, and retrain pretty much anywhere after battle.

**Centurion1** · 09-02-2009, 02:46

Good solid points.

I often send the army for Caralis to Syracuse first. Many times, I can let the first wave of Scips take all the casualties while the Bruti take the city. That army (with a few mercs) can often re-embark and STILL reach caralis ahead of the Julii -- or at least in time to do the same thing I did in Sicily (let them start the siege, but YOU start the siege assault, let them bleed on the walls, but take the city for the profits yourself). I do this with one bireme (which NEVER has troops still on it at the end of a move after turn #2).

No douby about it just turtling and teching up can net the celts huge cash returns. then you build one great army with troops ready for garrison duty and you walk all over northern gaul. The isles are a real cashcow if you play it right with traderights.

**Robert the Bruce** · 11-02-2009, 01:19

the celts rule!

**IceWolf** · 11-12-2009, 15:08

They do rule. They rule to the extant that I didn't find them much of a challange to Play. An army with a gouple genera;s a coupla chariot arrchers and hounds of Cunan backed up by Gallowglasses can go through pretty much anything.

Icewolf

**Celtic_Punk** · 11-15-2009, 01:40

I found northern Europe quite difficult to subdue. Most of the european factions band together to take you out.

**NordicCelt** · 07-29-2010, 08:04

Okay I don't know where to put this but this is funny. I was playing the Celts and was working on taking over britain. So I capture londinum and I decide to say screw it and massacre the people. Second I did that the game froze and no longer worked. Second it happened I remembers how CA was an english company. XD

**Tsar Alexsandr** · 07-30-2010, 02:54

Originally Posted by NordicCelt

Okay I don't know where to put this but this is funny. I was playing the Celts and was working on taking over britain. So I capture londinum and I decide to say screw it and massacre the people. Second I did that the game froze and no longer worked. Second it happened I remembers how CA was an english company. XD

Sounds like a very peculiar glitch.... XD Lol, CA.

The Celts are a very interesting faction. You know how Hadrian never wanted to mess with the Scotti tribe? Well Rome's on it's last legs. Time for the Celts to rise up and expell the invaders!

The first few turns you're doing okay for money. That's good, cause you'll need it. Build up your army. I reccomend Pictish Spearmen. They're basic, defensive, and good at killing cav. And right now, you could use some defensive infantry. You start with some good signature Celtic shock troops and specialist troops. So spears are the way to go. I know they're not exciting. But they'll keep you alive.

Rome's army in England is larger than yours. But they're struggling. They are a Christian faction lately, but Britain is still pagan. Good news for you.... This means that Rome's cities in England are a constant problem for the Western Roman Empire. But the troops are still there to be contended with.

Usually, I have to fight a big battle towards the begining. It turns out to be a heroic victory, I get a nifty little marker up in Scotland, and that seals Rome's fate in the Isles. But, after you defeat the Romans, you know have to deal with the Romano-Britons. That's right. Some locals think they are "Roman" now. Well, you can't have that. You have to beat them too.

They're mostly defenisve, so your mixed forces should help you out a lot. The Britons have no offensive infantry on par with your own.

With them out of the way, England is yours. Watch out for lousy Saxon raiders. Other than that, the only thing you have to worry about is picking who to go after next. If you wanna get involved in the madness in Europe, by all means invade fractured France. You'll find nice Roman cities waiting for you. Or maybe pre-emptively striking the Saxons? Their lands okay. And likely to remain stable. It'll also give you complete control of the northern waters. Spain might be nice. You had some ancestors from there too. The Iberian-Celts. Why not take that? For one you'll only have to worry about Berber incursions, (and you can beat the Berbers... XD ) of course Rome needs to be thrown from Iberia if you want it. But... you could manage that...

**Celtic_Punk** · 10-01-2013, 02:50

I never tried iberia... I kept going for northern and western europe... Getting held back and bombarded and battered constantly by everyone. It's as if they remember the La Tene Celts and decide "HELLS NAW NOT ON MY CONTINENT! EVERYONE ATTACK THEM AND STOP FIGHTING THE ROMANS!"

Quite aggrivating...