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no we arent. i'm playing the rebels. my best unit is a hoplite, and still i beat up armies with cats and companions. its just tactics and some guts to charge on the right moment. i was outnubered 5 to 2 and i won killing 2000 of the 2300 men and lost 200 out of 2000 men. my army were mainly iberian infantry while i had to face veteran greek hoplitesQuote:
Originally Posted by KSEG
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Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1
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Originally Posted by clayton ballentine
I never thought I'd say this to a person playing RTW, but..........use complex tactics. I mean, simple. From what you've shown, maybe your brain can process simple plans better.......
He's only 14. Give him a break.
And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)
Defense is much easier.
2 to 1 in MTW was something(unless it was a Spanish Javelin spam army) not so much in RTW it seems.
hmm. oke but didn't he mant in that campaign. i mean if also rate myself as a 9 maybe 9.5, but i'm a veteran in MTW and in RTW. i can kick sum but, with no offense clayton but did you seriously meant that your overall stats are a nine or only in that campaign. i don't want to say youre a noob, but from the problems you have i can tell that a 9 is a bit tooooo highQuote:
Originally Posted by CMcMahon
i'm too, yeah lets do that. me neither. and hell yeah it isQuote:
Originally Posted by HarunTaiwan
How long have you played the game? It shouldn`t be difficult to win a battle with 2:1 odds, although there are rare exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSEG
I take that as an offense! :furious3: j/k ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by HarunTaiwan
A good gerneral is rarely outnumbered.
How dare you!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HarunTaiwan
I'm 16! ~:cheers:
I was getting massacred until I figured out that Hastati are not set at 'fire at will' and have to be told manually to do that. For some reason that makes an enormous difference. Previously I would lose outnumbering the other side 2:1, and now I'm beating the computer 1:3. ~:cool: Perhaps the pilum is overpowered?
That's not really true... Alexander fought armies many times his size. Miltides repelled the Persians at Marathon and then marched back to Athens to repel the Persian Fleet. Hannibal at Cannae won a battle outnumbered 2 to 1 by enveloping the superior Roman force.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franconicus
More modern examples:
Robert E. Lee even divided his forces in the face of superior numbers.
There were the American invasions of Iraq.
Outnumbering an opponent causes alot of a problems too. Only so many troops can be fighting at a certain time. That's why envloping works. A smaller organized force engages an equal amount of enemies at any given time at the perimeter of the enemy mass, thus everyone at the center are jsut standing there doing nothing.
There're alot of factors influencing battle, numbers isn't everything.
for some reason it makes a difference he says. what a joker. and no the pilum isnt really overpowered it is just powerful. cuz it has armour piercing it only counts half the armour ratingQuote:
Originally Posted by gardibolt
Why aren't the Hastati set at Fire at Will in the first place? They're pretty useless without the pila.
cuz they are infantry and not skirmishers. when attacking fire at will mode is annyoing.
Maybe you should make sure you got 3:1 odds?
Why do you guys keep feeding the troll?
Who? KSEG? He's slightly annoying but not trolling.
Though Catiline might say other wise....
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Turn it off then, Javelins own anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1
well why not turn it on. i don't see the difference.