Re: Review my Pergamene army
Disband mercenary archers and slingers and send one FM home.Hire one more peltast unit and thureophoroi.
...........-----------2xcheap mercs--------------
............----KelH----ClaH----ClaH----ClaH----............................--FM--......................--2x Skirmish cavalry--
--Thur----Pelt-----------------------------Pelt----Thur--
Reinforce Thureophoroi on each wing by any unit u want,but something with AP attack will be just fine.
Never keep your cavalry behind your main line and never ever keep cavalry skirmishers close to your army.Find some cover for them or use them for big flanking move from start.Same for heavy cavalry.
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Yes I'd definitely use more thureophoroi or hoplites to beef out your infantry. No Hellenic army ever had an equal ratio of cavalry + skirmishers to infantry.
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william weedzor
Disband mercenary archers and slingers and send one FM home.Hire one more peltast unit and thureophoroi.
I'm puzzled, why remove the entirety of my long-range skirmishing power? Archers and slingers are great for removing enemy javelin-infantry before they get in range. It's a minor concession to effectiveness, tempered by only having one of each.
Send one FM home and I've basically got no heavy cavalry (and pretty much no use for FMs, since only one is a governor and I only have three armies). Again what's the value in that?
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william weedzor
...........-----------2xcheap mercs--------------
............----KelH----ClaH----ClaH----ClaH----............................--FM--......................--2x Skirmish cavalry--
--Thur----Pelt-----------------------------Pelt----Thur--
Reinforce Thureophoroi on each wing by any unit u want,but something with AP attack will be just fine.
What are the cheap merc units doing? Thacian peltastai are good for AP flankers. That's sort of why I was considering adding them regardless.
Keltohellenikoi really aren't durable enough to stand in the centre of the line (especially not against phalanxes); that's why I've effectively got them playing as "Gallic Thureophoroi" on the opposite flank to the regular Thureophoroi.
Why stagger the flankers off the centre of the line? Is that the authentic way of deploying them?
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william weedzor
Never keep your cavalry behind your main line and never ever keep cavalry skirmishers close to your army.Find some cover for them or use them for big flanking move from start.Same for heavy cavalry.
Why move the cavalry away from the main body where they can be singled out for attack? If they're distant they also potentially cause the AI to do stupid things when trying to "match" them.
I tend to wait until the enemy line engages mine before looping the cavalry around, unless I need them to drive off their skirmishers/skirmishing cavalry. Even then, they rush back to shelter and rest behind the main line when they're done.
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Ravenic
Yes I'd definitely use more thureophoroi or hoplites to beef out your infantry. No Hellenic army ever had an equal ratio of cavalry + skirmishers to infantry.
I'm a bit loath to add more line infantry, it has a tendency to make battles too easy against all but the biggest AI armies. That's why I'm thinking more peltastai, who as medium infantry can flank but won't make the main line even tougher. Or some non-Hellene lighter line infantry.
Unfortunately the other alternative is to reduce my light component which might make things a little too tough. Hmmmm.
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QuintusSertorius
Line Infantry (6 units):
3 x Classical Hoplites
1 x Thureophoroi
1 x Celto-Hellenic Hoplites
1 x Galatian Wild Men/Karian Warband
Why no Phalangites? AFAIK they were a pretty common occurance in their armies.
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bobbin
Why no Phalangites? AFAIK they were a pretty common occurance in their armies.
As I was reading, they were an exception amongst the Successor armies in having no elephants and not making much use of phalangites. The former because of lack of supply, the latter because of low population volumes making it hard to recruit such large bodies from the Hellenes.
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Cheap mercs units will protect your main line from missiles much better then archers and slingers,also if u fight phalanx u can simply put them into more deep formation and move them forward.Or use them to attack center of the enemy phalanx line.Two things may happen,whole line attack them and this instantly cause victory for you.Or only some units from center and the rest will continue to your lines.This mean two more wings for you to attack,so u can use center of your line as flankers:) Imho best unit for sacrifice purpose are galatian shortswordmen.
About cavalry,when the battle starts rush your cav.skirmishers into nearest wood or just move them away.But this all about personal taste and timing.Ofc u dont have to move them too far away:) Two FMs with heavy cavalry make battles pretty easy,one unt is enough and betwen you and me its waste of slot,because one day they die and their uber unit die with them.So if u experience lack of heavy cavalry hire some real or medium cavalry.
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Why stagger the flankers off the centre of the line? Is that the authentic way of deploying them?
Because more flexibilty,because if the enemy engage your whole line they are no more flankers but part of the line and this is not compatibile with idea of flanking enemy by light infantry:).Separated they can charge and broke enemy unit morale,or throw javelines from side.Also if they are separate u can use them to extend your line to twice lenght without touching center and do a proper encirclement.Instant Canae:).And after all they work as reserve if something went wrong.And if the enemy unit attack flank of your main line he will have - to morale from not secured flanks,receive javelin shower from side and must deal with counter-charge.With one solid line none of this happen.
Keep peltastai behind your main line,this is perhaps not most effective place,but it will keep them out of fight and free for any action,help to flank,help for main line and again they can charge and break enemy morale.Especially Thrakian pelt. are great as light infantry.
In short separated lines (as i show) offer way more flexibilty and more control over battlefield.U can concentrate your peltast with one wing of the flankers in the middle of battle,mass them and simply overun and route enemy flank.
Btw im great fan of archers,but having two long range units and two light cavalry in same time is not smart.Especially if u are reasonable guy who wants some fun from game and his army numbers are limited for RP and fun purpose.
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william weedzor
Cheap mercs units will protect your main line from missiles much better then archers and slingers,also if u fight phalanx u can simply put them into more deep formation and move them forward.Or use them to attack center of the enemy phalanx line.Two things may happen,whole line attack them and this instantly cause victory for you.Or only some units from center and the rest will continue to your lines.This mean two more wings for you to attack,so u can use center of your line as flankers:) Imho best unit for sacrifice purpose are galatian shortswordmen.
I don't really see the merit in this, to be honest, why would the AI target them? Does it simply shoot the guys at the front? If that's the case, I'd prefer they shoot ineffectively at my heavy-armoured front line. Furthermore, slingers out front tend to annihilate their archers and slingers before they can threaten anyone else. That removes any late-flanking threat from light troops on the other side once they've expended their ammo.
Throwing individual units forwards piecemeal tends to result in ragged battles with my line split up into two or even three parts. Given I'm aiming to be outnumbered that's a bad position to be in.
As a general rule, hoplites have a wider frontage than phalangites, meaning the flankers can move around as soon as the lines meet. Followed by the light infantry and cavalry wings. The formation is one that's worked time and again (though with the original AI formations). No "sacrifice" units, low casualties overall is the usual result.
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william weedzor
About cavalry,when the battle starts rush your cav.skirmishers into nearest wood or just move them away.But this all about personal taste and timing.Ofc u dont have to move them too far away:) Two FMs with heavy cavalry make battles pretty easy,one unt is enough and betwen you and me its waste of slot,because one day they die and their uber unit die with them.So if u experience lack of heavy cavalry hire some real or medium cavalry.
I didn't mean two FMs and heavy cavalry, but two FMs as my heavy cavalry (no additional units). I haven't lost a single FM (except deliberate suicide of two especially useless ones) yet doing this. They fulfil the role of cheap medium-heavy really well. Plus it means they also occasionally get some good traits from being fighters. They're the point of the spear formed by my skirmishers when they've used up their ammo.
I often find just walking the skirmishers behind their line throwing javelins into the backs of their heavies does the job for morale. Plus lance-armed Curepos actually have a very powerful charge.
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william weedzor
Because more flexibilty,because if the enemy engage your whole line they are no more flankers but part of the line and this is not compatibile with idea of flanking enemy by light infantry:).Separated they can charge and broke enemy unit morale,or throw javelines from side.Also if they are separate u can use them to extend your line to twice lenght without touching center and do a proper encirclement.Instant Canae:).And after all they work as reserve if something went wrong.And if the enemy unit attack flank of your main line he will have - to morale from not secured flanks,receive javelin shower from side and must deal with counter-charge.With one solid line none of this happen.
Keep peltastai behind your main line,this is perhaps not most effective place,but it will keep them out of fight and free for any action,help to flank,help for main line and again they can charge and break enemy morale.Especially Thrakian pelt. are great as light infantry.
In short separated lines (as i show) offer way more flexibilty and more control over battlefield.U can concentrate your peltast with one wing of the flankers in the middle of battle,mass them and simply overun and route enemy flank.
Btw im great fan of archers,but having two long range units and two light cavalry in same time is not smart.Especially if u are reasonable guy who wants some fun from game and his army numbers are limited for RP and fun purpose.
As above, the wider frontage of hoplites means against phalanxes the flankers are rarely drawn immediately into the main line. Or if they are, it's against the enemy's flankers, not main line-holders. I'm not convinced staggering the line does anything except delay engaging their flanks. Lacking the armour of Roman troops, breaking their line up like that isn't going to go so well for me.
Peltastai are good flankers or wingers, they're well-armoured enough to hold for ages. I prefer them on either flank rather than together on one, for double-envelopment.
I don't think two long range and two light cavalry are especially abusive. Especially when one of the long-ranged are archers (basically useless against armoured targets), and the cavalry are all light (and not horse archers).
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IMO, take both races of peltastai, remove the slingers and the medium cavalry unit and take +1 keltohellenikoi.
As for wild men, take 1 unit of them or 1 karian warband + 1 kludollon unit. Though I'd rather not use wild men unless I want to roflpwn the AI even if I'm on crack.
How I'd deploy this as a yoke formation:
SkirmisherCav------------------------------------------------------^-----------------------------------------------------HeavyCav
----------------Peltasts------------------------------------------ ||------------------------------Thraikian Peltasts-------------
---------------------------------2 Keltohellenikoi, 3 Hoplitai, Cretan Archers---Thureophoroi---------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------Kluddolon, Karians-------------------------------------------------
The point of this would be to advance on a wider front than the enemy and envelop them. The Cretans rush forward to win the archery duel with the enemy's archers, if they are present in significant numbers, or to destroy some skirmishers / light cavalry / light infantry / whatever, then quickly retreat to the rear or to the right behind the Thraikian Peltasts, making room for your shock infantry to charge.
In keeping with the Hellenistic tradiiton of having the honor spot on the right, this is a rather lopsided yoke and the objective is to collapse the enemy's left flank, gut the center from 3 directions or at least 2 and destroy whatever is left at leisure. Phalangitai would serve better as lineholders than Hoplitai, especially since you have only 3 thinly spread units of them. One unit of keltohellenikoi might join them (don't form it as thinly) but the other should try some flanking.
After their initial contributions, the Cretans should help out the left flank which is weaker, or if it's not in trouble they can rush behind the enemy's strongest center of resistance and dislodge them with fire arrows and maybe a charge in the rear when they are out of ammo.
A more wacky alternative which may or may not work:
Skirmisher Cav----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------Peltastai--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heavy Cavalry-----------2 Keltohellenikoi--------Cretans*---------1 Hoplitai, thich kine, 2 Hoplitai, thin line, Thureophoroi----Thr. Peltastai
-----------------------------------------leave some space here---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------Kluddolon, Karians,----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What I'm trying here is to make the enemy's center split up, by letting some of them advance into the gap between the Keltohellenikoi and the rest of your center (or by pushing the former backwards while the latter hold or gain ground). Your Cretans should begin the battle as above.
Your heavy hitters are concentrated for a charge into the ensuing gap. After the enemy's right is hopefully brutalized into submission, your heavy cavalry and shock infantry should stab the enemy's left flank, which is pinned by your Hoplitai, in the back, while the remnants of your keltohellenikoi (and your Cretan Archers) move forward to cover them against enemy reserves and relief forces.
Speaking of reserves, you might want to stay strictly defensive on the right flank, preserving your thureophoroi and thraikian peltastai as tactical reserves. All your skirmishers on the left should be kept busy by the enemy's right flank for most of the battle.
However, this is an untested wildcard and I wouldn't be that surprised if it backfired egregiously.
*) You can put the Cretans wherever you feel like it in this setup, but I'd keep them on the left flank and you have a big gap in your line anyway.
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QuintusSertorius
As I was reading, they were an exception amongst the Successor armies in having no elephants and not making much use of phalangites. The former because of lack of supply, the latter because of low population volumes making it hard to recruit such large bodies from the Hellenes.
True, but IIRC that changed once they conquered several Seleucid territories in Asia Minor (and the military settlements therein), as you have done. You also have sufficient wealth to recruit many mercenaries, and access to Ionia and Hellas proper, so recruiting Hellenes is not going to be a problem for you.
In any case: Pergamon starts as a wealthy and influential city-state, but they attempted to transform into a real successor Empire. That would have required a different type of military as well. Phalangites have proven to be a winning model, and in the military settlements you have men trained as such. Why not use them?
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Naked Galatians messing up the AI is a good point. Kluddolon are a less exploitative replacement.
I'm less convinced with formations geared around making them split their line; again with smaller armies that's asking to be locally outnumbered.
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Ludens
True, but IIRC that changed once they conquered several Seleucid territories in Asia Minor (and the military settlements therein), as you have done. You also have sufficient wealth to recruit many mercenaries, and access to Ionia and Hellas proper, so recruiting Hellenes is not going to be a problem for you.
In any case: Pergamon starts as a wealthy and influential city-state, but they attempted to transform into a real successor Empire. That would have required a different type of military as well. Phalangites have proven to be a winning model, and in the military settlements you have men trained as such. Why not use them?
Hmmm, you might have a point here. Perhaps the expansion should be to add two phalanx units and remove one of the hoplites, so they form the new centre. A couple of levy phalanx units, perhaps? Or perhaps mercenary mediums?
That would give me:
Cavalry (4 units):
2 x Family Members
1 x Gallic Light Cavalry/Thracian Medium Cavalry
1 x Eastern Light Cavalry/Thracian Light Cavalry
Line Infantry (7 units):
2 x Levy Phalanx/Mercenary Medium Phalanx
2 x Classical Hoplites
1 x Thureophoroi
1 x Celto-Hellenic Hoplites
1 x Kluddolon/Karian Warband
Light Infantry (3 units):
1 x Mercenary Kretan Archer
1 x Gallic Slingers
1 x Peltastai/Thracian Peltastai
With the flex if I wanted a bigger army in the either/or of Galatians/Karians and Peltastai/Thracian Peltastai becoming an and.
Deployment thus:
--GalSl
-------------------ClaH----Phal----Phal---ClaH----
GK/KW-----KelH-------------KrA---------------Thur----TPel/Pel
FM---------------------------------------------------FM
GalCav----------------------------------------------ELCav/TLCav
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I dont get it,why do you keep your cavalry behind and such splited.IF the enemy mass his cavalry on left wing u will still need reorganize your FMs into group or just put them together and move them somewhere forward.Dont tell me only reason for this is your hobby for grouping troops in the battle.Because this is only reasonable answer why you do such thing.
Same for javeliners.Why they are on different side of line?Together they do much better bussines and why they are behind.Again no reason for such deployment,because u will need to move them.
This is not about effectivity of your army,but you have deployment phase to deploy your troops.Such kind of battle formation is only for effect and perhaps look good,but when the battle start u will still move them to better position.So why they can start in better position grouped together by their purpose?Less managament for same performance.
Seriously tell me what happen if u see cavalry massed on one wing?what will u do?U will put them together....fail because u have deployment phase for this....and move them a bit out of your line to have clear field for charge.......again fail because u can do this in deployment phase.Do you get my meaning?Spliting cavalry on each wing and behind everything before the battle even start without knowledge of the enemy deployment is just fail of your deployment stategy.Not big fail,because u have plenty of time to redeploy in battle,but why?And now imagine doing same pointless cavalry move in 50 battles in row.And only because it looks so fine......
Btw did u see many ancient battle plans where is cavalry comfortably hidden BEHIND the flanks?
Chaeronea:Makedonian cavalry is in very left wing and a bit forward.
Issus:Both sides have cavalry on the flanks in same line with first line.
Gaugamela:Try guees where is cavalry:)
Granicus:Yap on the wings
Let jump to future
Cannae:Cavalry on wings
Lake Trasimene: cavalry on wing
Trebia: Both sides have cavalry on wings and bit separated
Zama: Again both sides have cavalry on each wing
No offense mate,but Alexander and Hannibal was battle hardened veterans who know their job and none of them put his cavalry in such sick position:).Btw Hannibal face some not so exactly good and skilled generals and even this guyz put their cavalry in right place where cavalry have to be.
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Well, you don't have to bite his head about it.
As for my formations, with split javeliners, maybe that's wrong but I don't use javeliners that much. Well, at all, rather, I take archers instead. My idea of the peltastai would be to run them behind the enemy units I've pinned with my hoplites/phalangites and turn them into pincushions, and I don't know if I'd like to leave my weak side without both heavy cavalry and ranged attackers.
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I think you've got it pretty down. Levy Phalangites would be best, and once you get Sardis i believe its a lvl 3 regional barracks that you can recruit K-Phalangites (cant spell whatevermacallit), which allows for a more quality phalanx.
And as far as cavalry....the RTW AI is pretty dumb, you move cavalry too far to the flank before the engagement, they send everything after it, sure i suppose a good commander could adapt to it, but i dont think a commander in the first place would move an ENTIRE army to counter a couple units of cavalry..at most send their own to match and adjust accordingly, while the lines continued in their battle-array.
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william weedzor
I dont get it,why do you keep your cavalry behind and such splited.IF the enemy mass his cavalry on left wing u will still need reorganize your FMs into group or just put them together and move them somewhere forward.Dont tell me only reason for this is your hobby for grouping troops in the battle.Because this is only reasonable answer why you do such thing.
Same for javeliners.Why they are on different side of line?Together they do much better bussines and why they are behind.Again no reason for such deployment,because u will need to move them.
This is not about effectivity of your army,but you have deployment phase to deploy your troops.Such kind of battle formation is only for effect and perhaps look good,but when the battle start u will still move them to better position.So why they can start in better position grouped together by their purpose?Less managament for same performance.
Seriously tell me what happen if u see cavalry massed on one wing?what will u do?U will put them together....fail because u have deployment phase for this....and move them a bit out of your line to have clear field for charge.......again fail because u can do this in deployment phase.Do you get my meaning?Spliting cavalry on each wing and behind everything before the battle even start without knowledge of the enemy deployment is just fail of your deployment stategy.Not big fail,because u have plenty of time to redeploy in battle,but why?And now imagine doing same pointless cavalry move in 50 battles in row.And only because it looks so fine......
My cavalry and skirmishers are split because it makes a double-envelopment possible. It works every single time, I don't care if the enemy masses their cavalry on one flank, chances are the stupid AI will just charge them into my line. Which means I only need one of the two cavalry wings to loop around and finish them off. There's nothing theoretical about this, I've used it countless times and its worked every single time.
If I see massed cavalry on one flank, I ignore them. All it means is that their other flank will quickly be turned, so the one facing it just has to endure a little.
I don't move them all to one or other flank when the battle starts, they wait in reserve until an opportunity presents itself. They're behind the line to screen them. It also stops the AI breaking off some or even all of it's army to chase them around.
There's no fail at all, it works. If the AI splits their cavalry, I destroy them in conjunction with my infantry. If they mass them, I turn their other flank then swamp them. Hell, they're not even big-charge cavalry in the first place. I rely on my infantry to do most of the fighting and flanking, cavary mostly lurk in the rear to unnerve, then kill routers.
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william weedzor
Btw did u see many ancient battle plans where is cavalry comfortably hidden BEHIND the flanks?
Chaeronea:Makedonian cavalry is in very left wing and a bit forward.
Issus:Both sides have cavalry on the flanks in same line with first line.
Gaugamela:Try guees where is cavalry:)
Granicus:Yap on the wings
Let jump to future
Cannae:Cavalry on wings
Lake Trasimene: cavalry on wing
Trebia: Both sides have cavalry on wings and bit separated
Zama: Again both sides have cavalry on each wing
No offense mate,but Alexander and Hannibal was battle hardened veterans who know their job and none of them put his cavalry in such sick position:).Btw Hannibal face some not so exactly good and skilled generals and even this guyz put their cavalry in right place where cavalry have to be.
Yet countless Roman generals split their cavalry, with the Romans on the right and allies on the left. Some of them even won!
Behind the line is still on the wings, just not out on their own where the AI can charge them, and you end up having to move them to shelter anyway. Moving cavalry out to the wings once the line engages is a trivial thing. Having to run behind before that happens, possibly chased by a now chaotic enemy is not.
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rotten
Well, you don't have to bite his head about it.
As for my formations, with split javeliners, maybe that's wrong but I don't use javeliners that much. Well, at all, rather, I take archers instead. My idea of the peltastai would be to run them behind the enemy units I've pinned with my hoplites/phalangites and turn them into pincushions, and I don't know if I'd like to leave my weak side without both heavy cavalry and ranged attackers.
I like a mixture of skirmishers, javelins are more effective than arrows, they just don't have the range. In general archers aren't much use against armoured targets, whereas they're brilliant for killing enemy skirmishers (not peltastai, though).
But yes, peltastai are good as outflankers when they've expended their javelins. Also good in sieges outside the walls peppering the defenders before the rams have finished their work.
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AspisPhalanx90
I think you've got it pretty down. Levy Phalangites would be best, and once you get Sardis i believe its a lvl 3 regional barracks that you can recruit K-Phalangites (cant spell whatevermacallit), which allows for a more quality phalanx.
I think I'll go with the merc phalangites, levies are for garrisons (same goes levy hoplites, akontistai and so on).
EDIT: Ah, having checked the unit list, I can build Kleruchoi Phalangitai, who are a lot better than the levy pikemen (though not as good as the mercs). I might do one merc, one Kleruchoi.
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AspisPhalanx90
And as far as cavalry....the RTW AI is pretty dumb, you move cavalry too far to the flank before the engagement, they send everything after it, sure i suppose a good commander could adapt to it, but i dont think a commander in the first place would move an ENTIRE army to counter a couple units of cavalry..at most send their own to match and adjust accordingly, while the lines continued in their battle-array.
Exactly. The AI is stupid, and station your cavalry too far away from the main body and they'll break their force to engage them.
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Peltastai are also great at crushing morale of a unit...if a unit is held back until the lines collide, and then during the melee get peppered by javelins, the unit could have been near full strenght and on a route. i think one unit of archers is enough, also tending to focus on javelins and...i cant forget slingers...theyre great for picking off cavalry and skirmishers, as they have long range, tons of ammo, and are cheap....i tend to use them like archers, but on the front where they cant hit friendlys, then run them away
EDIT: Im reading a book from my University's library about the Attalid Kingdom, and if possible, it would seem that Pergamon had a SUBSTANTIAL amount of siege weapons within it...whether they were defensive or offensive it doesnt say, but historically it would seem Pergamon was not shy to use them
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Looking good!
Can you tell me how to change the colour of a faction. I'm sure the information is around somewhere but it would save me some time.
Cheers!
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descr_sm_factions primary and secondary colors...youll need to know the RGB code though
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descr_sm_factions primary and secondary colors...youll need to know the RGB code though
The royal blue I used is red 71, green 60, blue 139.
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QuintusSertorius, it seems you have asked people to review your pergamene army and then objected to every single suggestion people have made. Why ask for a review in the first place if you don't want advice? Just seems silly to me.
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Blxz
QuintusSertorius, it seems you have asked people to review your pergamene army and then objected to every single suggestion people have made. Why ask for a review in the first place if you don't want advice? Just seems silly to me.
I haven't rejected every single suggestion. I've added phalangites, removed the Galatian Wild Men in favour of Kluddolon and staggered my flankers.
What I haven't done is completely changed my deployment, or removed all my long-range skirmishers as some have suggested.
