Help!!!

[Valion]

Meh how do i kill Gaesatae's other than spamming them with javelins? My Legions are getting butchered by these seemingly brick wall

1 unit or 2 of Gaesatae is already terrifying, i dread the day i see a stack with about 4 or 5 of them

[AlexanderSextus]

Hammer and Anvil. Triarii anvil(either kind), and For the Hammer, Preferrably Equites Extrordinarii, but reg'lar old Equites Romani will work.

[Matinius Brutus]

Slingers!

[SwissBarbar]

Hammer and Anvil. Triarii anvil(either kind), and For the Hammer, Preferrably Equites Extrordinarii, but reg'lar old Equites Romani will work.

highly effective if your Hammer is charging downhill

[^RaGe^]

Hammer and Anvil. Triarii anvil(either kind), and For the Hammer, Preferrably Equites Extrordinarii, but reg'lar old Equites Romani will work.

Equites Romani are a terrible unit for charging. They manage to kill only few soldiers per charge and won't last long in melee. Curepos is a great unit for the task if you don't have Equites Extraordinarii.

[Tux]

Humm archers are also good,especialy if used from the back so try somehow to have some and use two lines of infantry on them to keep them in line so one line of quality infantry and backing them something weak.

[SwissBarbar]

yeah, but they shoot also your own units ^^


Equites Romani are weak indeed, they are great to hunt down routing enemies. To use them as a Hammer makes sense provided that 1. they attack downhill , 2. your Anvil units are strong and superior in numbers to lower the enemies moral (maybe you wait until the enemy is exhausted..), 3. you use 2 or 3 units of equites per enemy unit and most important: you draw them back if the enemy doesn't rout immediately and attack again.

[Tux]

Well that's why i said to move them behind the Gaesatae.
And since they don't have armour in comparission to your legions it's harder for them.

[craziii]

why would you have trouble? just make sure you are not using 1 unit to duke it out with those naked men! putting another infantry or use a skirmisher unit, or charge with cavalry, they all drop like flies, even with 2 hp! I find the super armored human tanks that the Seleucid get even more scary.

I just found out that KH can't recruit the wild man as a unit :(((

[Valion]

Why am i troubled? it's one thing if it's only a Gaesatae unit but what if they are with i don't know a stack of other units. A masive battle with them anoying Gaesatae is hard since my legions get intimidated thus lowering their ability to hold the line. The Hammer and Anvil strategy would be nice that is if my cavalry isnt pre-occupied with the enemies own cavalry.

crazii if i really have to duke it out with them i'd send 6 maniples against 1 Gaestae unit.

[SwissBarbar]

i made quite (surprisingly) good experiences with Equites Campanici




they manage the light cavallery of the gauls very well, i always have 3-4 Alae of them in my armies (in the camillan time).

They make the enemys cavallery rout quick in melee by attacking from 2 directions, can move fast behind the enemy, throw their javelins in the back of the bound enemy infantry and then crash in their rear.

[Recoil]

equities campania are pretty decent, cost less then romani equites and have javelins as well.

as for the problem of gaesaetae, i especially hate it when they turn up with a large army, since in a large scale battle i can rarely get skirmishers to flank around the back, which makes the gaesaetae that much more lethal.

[Valion]

Exactly! ....i had a taste of how anoyingly lethal they can be in a big battle, 5 principes maniples of mine were pinned down by 1 Gaesaetae unit >.> while my main army was already having trouble holding the line against a massive barbarian army plus another anoying gaesaetae.

my only method to counter them in a big battle is to have my men overwhelm the gaesetae with pillums Lol. i'l try out the equites campacini i've been itching to recruit a unit or two.