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    Symbasileus ton Rhomaioktonon Member Maion Maroneios's Avatar
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    Default Re: Pedites extraordinarii are champions!

    Quote Originally Posted by Hax
    Hey, I've shipped them to Demetrias, Gallia isn't that much further!
    Wow, must have been a hell of a long journey... I wonder how an Indian would react in such cold climats as the heavily forested lands of Gallia
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    It wasn't actually that hard. I just built a ship at Patala, ported them to Charax Aspinou, then a march past Seleukeia and Syria until I reached Antiocheia, took another ship from there to Sardis, where they meeted up with the rest of my elite army.
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    Yeah I've done similar: once or twice, when my armies were done conquering the Indos valley (or what little thereof lies on the EB map) I found myself thinking 'nice, but what am I to do with them now?'. To which I answered myself 'well, I was planning on that invasion of Greece anyway; and I can do with some seriously mean archers and elephants... off you go lads; the pirate hunters will take you to Charax...'.
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    I like doing that aswell, marching a kickass unit across the world for a battle

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    And then having to retrain them after that...the horror.

    Well, usually after a year of ten I just edit the export_descr_buildings and make them a regional unit for Antiocheia only, to represent that the elite training of those soldiers has been taken over in Antiocheia.
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    Can't say I ever bother with retraining, not worth the hassle of trying to shuttle troops back to wherever you recruited them. Easier to just draft in replacements by merging other units. Besides it's highly unrealistic.
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    I like the PE's. . . only they and the Lugian swordsmen have been able to stand up in a 1v1 with my Elite Thracians.
    The PE suffered a bit from their low lethality (compared to falx), but they made a game of it before their witless Roman (AI) commander got his empty head cut off by a different falx.

    All in all a very good troop type, but I prefer elites to have a bit more punch.

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    Default Re: Pedites extraordinarii are champions!

    Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius
    Can't say I ever bother with retraining, not worth the hassle of trying to shuttle troops back to wherever you recruited them. Easier to just draft in replacements by merging other units. Besides it's highly unrealistic.
    Depends. It could represent better organized recruitment - either the warriors are trained in India, and step in service, so to speak, in Antiocheia as planned, OR, the would-be-warriors travel to Antiocheia to be trained there, perhaps in a colony of Indian subjects of the Seleukids.
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