Favorite/Least Favorite Bodyguards

[mlc82]

Oh. I'm playing a KH campaign on Alex.exe as well. I thought that maybe you had been ahead of me in the game and encountered some fatal CTDs.

That said, I don't really see much difference between Rome.exe and Alex.exe AI, except that Alex AI does extremely retarded things less frequently. That and the recruiting of mercenaries and retraining.

Then again, I probably just don't remember what things were like before Alex anymore.

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Very off-topic, but I want to rant a little.
I once lost as Baktria because in 260 BC a Seleukid FM was wandering through Baktria, nothing out of the ordinary really, and then the next turn he attacked Baktra, and suddenly had a huge army made of every single mercenary unit in the region. Not even 6 FMs were enough to stop him.

In another campaign, I was obliterated by that super-elite army in Noricum, but inflicted some losses on them. I began to assemble a new army, but when my spy entered the area, somehow all of those elite units were back on full strength. I decided to retreat and wait for someone else to conquer them. I have seen several Roman and Epirot full stacks enter the region, but they never come out, and the Noricum defenders are always at full strength...

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

It wasn't actually brilliant or anything, just efficient... Creating large, powerful armies (instead of large, skirmisher and reserve filled armies, or 3 unit "armies") and just sending in masses of them is what eventually wore me down. Granted, I was destroying the AI in the battles, until finally the sheer mass of numbers just drove me back city by city until my only real, powerful strongholds were Athens in Greece and Syracuse in the mediterranean. Once those each fell, I "roleplayed" that the few cities I had left (a terribly depleted Sparta included) would have just gone right back to the old city-state system and happily kissed the Romani boots that would stomp through their cities within the next few years- I just didn't want to keep hitting end turn over and over to see it finally happen, so ended the thing.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I guess I am the only one who likes looking at my Roman FM bodyguards' white horses.

[Maion Maroneios]

Most favourite: Hetairoi Kataphraktoi (Baktrian Late Bodyguards), for obvious reasons.

Least favourite: Saba bodyguards. They are just lame and weak in comparison to others.

Maion

[Tyrfingr]

Least favourite: Saba bodyguards. They are just lame and weak in comparison to others.

Almost forgot about them, yeah, they blows big time!

[glouch]

my fav is the good ol' Somatophylakes Strategou.

they're great all-around for me.

[General Aetius]

All of the bodyguards have their uses and strengths but I think my favorite ones are Pahlava, Greek and strangely enough the Casse chariots. I think the least powerful and least useful, for me, is the Romani bodyguards but they have their uses in the Roman army too.

Like Cavalry, if you don't use chariots properly they suck but I"ve achieved some massive slaughters with my Casse chariots. Their ability to shower javelins at the same time as charging right through the enemies lines makes them extremely useful. Besides it looks awesome when they send men flying. Like these campaign pictures show, my main # of kills was by my Chariots:

http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img29

http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img33

General Aetius

[desert]

http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img33

54 casualties...
Yes, if you have no other cavalry, they would be useful for chasing down routers.

[kekailoa]

I personally enjoy the Gallic bodyguards because they're consistently powerful cavalry throughout the game in the western regions.

But the Swebox and KH bodyguards are ridiculous to fight. If I was in a dark corner, I'd rather have a bunch of them than some pretty boys in checkered pants saving my butt.

And the Getai bodyguard suck the big one. They're a bunch of wusses.