wooly_mammoth
04-30-2015, 22:11
And just finished horsing around. Took Rome by the winter of 236 BC but probably could have been done even faster. I simply never rested those horses and only picked the odd mercenary here or there when I needed a ram. Had no use at all for cataphracts or elephants, I think I would have gimped myself by using them since there's really nothing for the AI to do once it is surrounded by the most basic of horse archers. I ended up disliking persian cav because they have less ammo and can't run as fast. Their armor, longer range and ability to fight in melee doesn't really compensate when you have to fight a doomstack of armored units + reinforcements since they have the exact same ranged attack as regular horsemen, so less ammo -> less kills.
Starting from the parthian homelands, my empire stretched continuously west and along the south of the Mediterranean all the way to Carthage, through Anatolia and over the Aegean Sea into Laconia and up to the Carpathians (first time I play rtw and actually bushwhack my dacian ancestors), and along the shores of the Black Sea, across the northern steppes up to the forests of Germania. At this time I ferried a veteran horse archer army from Carthage into Rome, had one hell of a horse party over Latium and the game was over.
City battles are just awful and probably the main reason I decided to finish the campaign early and not take my time to conquer Sicily and Italy. Cavalry units have horrible pathfinding and response in narrow streets.
The first real change will follow. Gaul is next. :thwack:
Starting from the parthian homelands, my empire stretched continuously west and along the south of the Mediterranean all the way to Carthage, through Anatolia and over the Aegean Sea into Laconia and up to the Carpathians (first time I play rtw and actually bushwhack my dacian ancestors), and along the shores of the Black Sea, across the northern steppes up to the forests of Germania. At this time I ferried a veteran horse archer army from Carthage into Rome, had one hell of a horse party over Latium and the game was over.
City battles are just awful and probably the main reason I decided to finish the campaign early and not take my time to conquer Sicily and Italy. Cavalry units have horrible pathfinding and response in narrow streets.
The first real change will follow. Gaul is next. :thwack: