After playing for some time with Macedonians and fighting mostly phalanxes (AS is struggling badly and my armies have captured Arbela) with the immediate prospect of fighting the Ptolies (which means even more phalanxes), I've decided to have a small break there and try something different. I've played a Roman campaign twice (will probably play it more - I want to create the Roman Empire), played KH and even Carthage (which I liked a lot, but I've patched the game and the save was gone). Now I've decided to try something else.

I've actually never played a barbarian or nomadic faction. So, I've decided to try something barbarian and started Casse campaign.

I've built roads, disbanded the fleet and moved everything except my FL from the city towards town lying in the extreme south-west. I've saw a big rebel army and since I've heard that those guys can sometimes attack my city, I've attacked them (strangely enough they were neutral). After defeating them and it was hard since Casse FMs aren't much of a help in combat, I've decided to get back to my capital for retraining. On the way back I was attacked by another rebel army of 5 Caledonian skirmishers. Unfortunately my decimated army was beaten and I only manage to kill off 1.5 units of Caledonians. I've retreated to capital, retrained (which nearly emptied my wallet) and attacked that skirmisher army. This time I killed them (but losses were big). I've retreated to capital again, retrained (which took nearly all of the remaining money) and checkd that town I was going to take in the beginning. Immediately I understood that I have no chance of taking it with what I have.

I had 2xFM, 1x slingers, 1x s. Gallic swordsmen and 2x units of lugoae, while the enemy had 1xgeneral, 1x slingers, 2x botroas, 2x of gaeroas, 1x of uirodosios (naked spearmen), 2x of teceitos and 2x lugoae.

I produce around 400 mnai per turn and while I can wait and recruit some units, it certainly will not be enough to recruit and maintain even a couple of slightly better units.

Have I done something wrong in the beginning? Because now, the campaign seems nigh-impossible.