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    "Let me tell you that in a couple of days the king will be here with ten legions, 30,000 horsemen, 100,000 skirmishers, plus 300 elephants."

    This is part of Caesar speech to his troops before the Battle of Thapsus. He exaggerates the army numbers in purpose, but it shows you some interesting things.

    The horsemen are surely the famous Numidian cavalry. The Nobles like Jugurtha used sometimes, Iberian and Gallic horsemen as bodyguards.

    It makes a difference between Numidian infantry and simple skirmishers by saying that King Juba will arrive with ten legions. By this time some Numidian picked troops fought in Roman equipment, but we dont have this unit for EB1 since Numidia is not a faction in the game.

    The skirmishers could be javalinmen, slingers, and archers. We know that Caesar used Numidian archers during the Gallic Wars.

    Elephants could be towered or without towers. There is some art depicting Numdian African Elephants with towers.
    Last edited by Eduorius; 04-12-2008 at 17:34.

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