Putting together a Sweboz army?

[Zim]

Well, Rome attacked me after a few turns, despite our alliance. Then ended their war with the Aedui. And, of course, they proceeded to ally against me. I wish I could say it took me by surprise.

I played a defensive game while the Aedui did their version of the Mongol Shuffle from MTW2 (to the Celts" credit, they eventually came after me with some powerful stacks rather than getting stuck on permashuffle). Meanwhile I upgraded my MICs and replaced many of my levies with Dugundiz, the clubmen, and finally some regionals.

Once I became used to the fact that I'd take casualties even with better armies things went pretty well. It was very touch and go for a while with the Romans, watching my armies slowly dwindle from attrition while theirs never seemed to end. However, I managed to get a raiding party into Italy one step ahead of an elite stack of theirs, sacking the entire western coast. I was hoping that raiding party would manage to make it home, but that elite stack has them cornered in Sicily and they're pretty weak now...

Managed to take and hold Patavium long enough for it to rebel to the Aedui. As soon as I take one more Roman settlement north of the Alps they won't have a route to attack me any more and I can focus on the Celts, which I should be able to beat.

Units that proved to be staples:
-Dugundiz and their sword wielding counterparts.
-Belgae spearmen, largely for being available from a level 2 regional MIC.
-Clubmen
-Baltic regionals, especially the axemen.
-Not so much a staple but used a couple times to great effect: Those Celtic spearmen that are basically weaker Gaesaetae.
-A single unit of those fellows that wear the wolf pelts, that slowly dwindled but refused to die.

Thanks for all the help. When I get an army or two retrained I'll try to post them.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

Clubmen are useful cuz they beat the **** outta the heavily armored Roman late units.