Satres, the nigh-invincible general?

[Intranetusa]

I was able to defeat the "uber rebels" north of Italy while keeping my losses to a minimum (I single I only lost a battle once, and lost probably less than 2000 troops (huge battle scale) after taking 4-5 of the super rebel cities)

I did this by using at least 2 full stacks on a single city to ensure I wipe them out in a single blow (so I didn't have to retreat, which would allow the rebels to regain their numbers).

I kept causalities to a minimum by expending all the ammo from my ranged units first - I kept my polybian hastati/principes near the walls and let them use up their pilums when the Ai was running around. Then I used my archers and uber levy slingers (ap) to take out perhaps 1/3 of their troops, before using my triari to engage in narrow street to street combat (triaris have an advantage in head on confrontations - especially with TW Fanatic's phalanx mod).

I think my camillian triaris were able to stand up to uber 2-hp naked gallic infantries in one on one head on confrontations. :D


*I trained a crap load of camillian hoplite triaris (2 full stacks of entirely camillian triari) in order to supplement my polybian-era troops