Quote Originally Posted by procopius1980 View Post
I remember playing vanilla RTW as the Gauls back in Fall 2005. Unfortunately, I didn't look deep enough to learn to pit skirmishers agaisnt chariots. Instead, I fought a horribly bitter war against my northern neighbors. Provided they had no chariots, my warband/swordsmen tore into the Briton's infantry, but any battle with chariots went to the enemy. I was amazed at just how bad cavalry lose against chariots.

With all those ports, and an excellent defensive position, it looks like the Casse are going to be able to field a powerful army. The only problem I see is that the army upkeep looks more like BI in terms of cost. At least that gives one the option of choosing lots of levies vs. elite units... something the barbarians didn't deal with in BI. As I recall, there was very little difference in terms of upkeep between the levy spearmen and Franciscan Axemen.

I've heard other people talk about a feature (if even possible) to allow levy units to be raised and active within the same term. I don't know much about the history of this time period, but I know this would have been a historically viable means of calling men to arms in the medieval period, and certainly in the Saxon fyrd system. I imagine this is a hard coded limitation as opposed to a gaming decision. These levies should have minimal movement points (just enough to move in their home territory), and they automatically disband at the end of the seaon.

From what I know of this period, most soldiers were also farmers. It was only the local nobility who had the wealth to pay men to be in their household and train with arms all the time. I know CA knew this, but they elected to rush MTW:II out the door rather than take the time to revamp it.
If you may notice right now, theres a building called "The time of Freemen" in your settlements, watch closely(if you have the script on, the advisor will tell you) you will eventually see that marker replaced by "The Time of Bondsmen" and Eventually "The time Of Soldiers" I would wait until the time of Soldiers to start invading Gaul.

BTW you might want to look up how to recruit 'Dosidataskeli" as the casse, you need to mod it in to be able too.

Basically they're the most heavily armed and armoured foot units in the game.