Pointless playing Romani?

[zemaniak]

Wouldn`t think of playing anything but!
At 223 BC now of H/H Romani Campaign, NOT being responsible AND loving it! Working hard to subjugate the Mak/Epeiros alliance, winning 90% of battles (hills are your friend) , have Ambrakia, Epidamnos, Thermon and Pella, but Mak is spawning stack after stack of Spear fodder...oh, well. At least I`m putting pressure off KH, which is holding on for dear life!
On the western front, couldn`t help pouncing on a docile and seemingly (at first glance) weak Carthage. After easily invading Sicily Corsica, Sardania, I decided to go for the jugular and easily took Kart, but the lion woke up and sent 2 stacks to boot me out of Africa. Thought I could afford two fronts by making peace w/ the gaul tribes, but their infighting create a power vacuum up north which, if it helped me, unfortunately also helped the Sweboz become a major power! but I have a legion up there well versed in defensive warfare to keep the Krauts at bay of Mediolanium (again, thanks hills). Why do they all hate me so...

Great fun, though my GF might not have the same opinion. She hates EB and wants her BF back! ;)

[Roka]

Wouldn`t think of playing anything but!
At 223 BC now of H/H Romani Campaign, NOT being responsible AND loving it! Working hard to subjugate the Mak/Epeiros alliance, winning 90% of battles (hills are your friend) , have Ambrakia, Epidamnos, Thermon and Pella, but Mak is spawning stack after stack of Spear fodder...oh, well. At least I`m putting pressure off KH, which is holding on for dear life!
On the western front, couldn`t help pouncing on a docile and seemingly (at first glance) weak Carthage. After easily invading Sicily Corsica, Sardania, I decided to go for the jugular and easily took Kart, but the lion woke up and sent 2 stacks to boot me out of Africa. Thought I could afford two fronts by making peace w/ the gaul tribes, but their infighting create a power vacuum up north which, if it helped me, unfortunately also helped the Sweboz become a major power! but I have a legion up there well versed in defensive warfare to keep the Krauts at bay of Mediolanium (again, thanks hills). Why do they all hate me so...

Great fun, though my GF might not have the same opinion. She hates EB and wants her BF back! ;)

similar situation to my campaign, 238 BCE and despite my best efforts, the averni have been obliterated, and ever year i have to fight off at least one full stack army from sweboz and another from epeiros in cisalpine gaul, then the aedui try to send an army to try and take massalia, keeps me busy to say the least, thankfully with the polybian reforms the settlements i can recruit hastati etc... have increased

[Fondor_Yards]

No more pointless then say, Carthage, Ptolemaics, or Baktria. No hard campaigns really, *especially for the first two* but can still be a lot of fun.

[Connacht]

I have a legion up there well versed in defensive warfare to keep the Krauts at bay of Mediolanium (again, thanks hills). Why do they all hate me so...

Perhaps because they want revenge for the 2006 World Cup.

I'd use a large flexible wrapping army against them, completely surrounding their troops, with one or two cavalry groups engaging those who manage to flee. ;)

[Olaf The Great]

I may play defensively, but I never could play with house rules, which is why I could never play the Romans for very long.

[zemaniak]

Perhaps because they want revenge for the 2006 World Cup.

I'd use a large flexible wrapping army against them, completely surrounding their troops, with one or two cavalry groups engaging those who manage to flee. ;)

yup, with my slingers obliterating their range units beforehand while they plow up hill. When their main force hit my line, my triari and cavalry contain the flankers, then my 2-3 units of PE go around and engulf them. The rout usually follows and of course my cavalry goes medieval on their ass (pun intended).

The Maks have been getting tougher as they field more and more quality troops. Makes for very entertaining battles. One of those next to Thermon felt like a Classical version of Gettysburg with I defending little round top