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    Default Re: Crippling the Seleucids?? A KH strategical question.

    Quote Originally Posted by Novellus View Post
    What do most of the AS armies look like at the moment? Are they a bunch of pike units and heavy cavalry?
    Yeah, because those AS armies are pretty easy to defeat in a field battle, just as long as you have plenty of cavalry. Just let them come to your hoplites, or let your hoplites come to them and then strike them in the back. KP and PP phalangites will rout after the first charge. Pezhetairoi will do so usually after the second charge and the elites will all die/rout by the third or fourth charge. You could also go unorthodox and create an all-HA army with a bit of heavy cavalry as I have done in my Romani campaign. They are my tank army of Antiquity. I would advise hiring Mercenary Phalangitai as I consider pike phalanxes as almost cheating. These guys are perfect for the anvil of your hammer. Thanks to their long pikes, they will take little to no damage while your cavalry pounds the enemy phalanx from behind. Also get the Galatian "Wild Men" - those naked Gaesatae-wannabes as they are almost unrivaled as flanking infantry and it is incredibly hard to kill one of them.
    Last edited by Aemilius Paulus; 12-24-2008 at 20:03.

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