Quote Originally Posted by Fondor_Yards View Post
Carthage only has 1 pike unit, their elites. I can see not liking HA and pikes, but why not barbarians?
Don't like disordered armies of almost entirely unarmoured troops. The Gallic roster has some good units, Iaosatae, Neitos, Leuce Epos, Keltohellenikoi, but otherwise I'm not overly impressed. Of the Lusotanii roster, frankly the Qarthadastim have better Iberian options than they do.

Plus their starting positions and economies are pretty weak, not to mention surrounded by other factions. I tried a Casse game very briefly, but gave up after a few turns. Also tried a migrated Arverni one to Galatia, but similarly wasn't inspired by them.

I like having a mix of infantry, heavy, medium and light, the barbarian factions seem only to have elite heavy and screeds of light. Unless you bulk up your line with mercenaries.