Help!!!

[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.

[Ca Putt]

use them, they are quite cool. what about the Eqvites Extraordinarii (Elite Heavy Cavalry of the Italic Allies)?


i'm not exactly shure about them tho, but they should be the missing Hammer for the triarii anvil

[Chris1959]

I hope you have your legions on guard mode and fire at will, they won't kill many gestatae themselves but they will die slower allowing you to defeat supporting units and get slingers etc round the back, to kill them with missles or repeated hit and run cavalry charges.

[Valion]

I have them on guard mode and fire at will but the gaesaetae arent the only enemy my legions have., the hundreds of other barbarians are also in need of attention. as i said mostly my cavalry is busy engaging the enemies own cavalry as for my slingers theres mostly no clear shot, i risk hitting my own units.

[SwissBarbar]

hm. let the barbarians come close and then attack them. just always take 1 of your units an klick it to attack another unit, until every enemy unit is attacked by at least one of yours.

if you have superior numbers let your reserves march to the flanks and push into the enemys rear.... while you work on making the enemys flank rout you have to take care of your strong center who sould hold out against the gaesaetae (well, IF they are in the center). Your cavallery goes after the enemys cav.

Just try to roll up the enemys line. Don't chase routing enemys, just go further to the center, till you can attack the gaesaetae with your "free" heavy infantery. Make sure you kill them all. Routing enemys you chase with your cav. or beat them in the next battle when they have no gaesaetae anymore.

If the gaesaetae attack your flank, make sure you have some heavy infantery there to hold out. You attack the enemy, so you choose wich unit fights wich one.

[craziii]

I honestly dunno what is so bad about them. of course it owns 1 v 1 (ever try to fight them when they are on those city centers? :(, they never rout!!!), but what kinda human players allow that on the open field? are you saying your army melts before you can kill off ai's cavalry and use it for rear charging? only way this could happen is if you play on very hard battle mode, when peasants can kill your elite stack. I simply don't understand the trouble you are having :() even heavy skirmishers last a pretty long time, at least more then enough for your cavalry to get free and start rear ramming.