Putting together a Sweboz army?

[Zim]

A short moment of silence...Or perhaps a longer moment of cursing, for my Sweboz campaign that died when a power surge wiped my comp clean.

And I was holding on to a couple strong defensive positions and finally just a couple decades away from the reforms, the units from which I was looking forward to matching against the Polybian Roman troops.

Ah well, I've never tried the Romans, despite (or perhaps because ) they were almost the only faction I'd play with Vanilla, BI, and the mods I'd tried before EB. Seems like time for a new game.

Thanks for the help everyone, it made a big difference in getting my Sweboz empire's act together.

[athanaric]

A short moment of silence...Or perhaps a longer moment of cursing, for my Sweboz campaign that died when a power surge wiped my comp clean.

And I was holding on to a couple strong defensive positions and finally just a couple decades away from the reforms, the units from which I was looking forward to matching against the Polybian Roman troops.

Ah well, I've never tried the Romans, despite (or perhaps because ) they were almost the only faction I'd play with Vanilla, BI, and the mods I'd tried before EB. Seems like time for a new game.

Thanks for the help everyone, it made a big difference in getting my Sweboz empire's act together.

Ouch. I feel for you. Getting the Swêboz reform units takes a very long time...

[Nachtmeister]

A short moment of silence...Or perhaps a longer moment of cursing, for my Sweboz campaign that died when a power surge wiped my comp clean.

Reiser FS for the WIN!!!

[flame]Blasted microsoft seems to be incapable of getting their OS to comprehand rfs data though...
And afaik NTFS is still not really good at journaling - if they'd at the very least make a *working* journaling FS of their own... But I suppose then it would only be available with corporate editions. MS is turning more into a tasteless joke with every new OS they spam onto the markets. [/flame]

Sorry 'bout that but I get strong feelings when reading of (theoretically) avoidable read/write related HDD corruption.

On topic, I think the dugunthiz (sp?) are a bit overrated here - they fall almost as quickly as the militia spearmen, so I am using gaizoz frije as my main line infantry (until I get the pikemen, that is) with a FM standing right behind them in case the enemy advances with single skirmish units, flanks manned with jugunthiz and slaganz in column ready to envelop enemy, skutjanz on left flank to rush behind enemy when lines are engaged (auto-fire off so enemy does not go for them).



brown=FM, red=slaganz, d.green=gaizoz frije, l.green=jugunthiz, m.green=skutjonez.

My campaign is in it's early stages though, so I suppose this army would likely fail against better-equipped Gauls - but it is sufficient for the initial offensive pushes and the low upkeep (~150 for all but the slaganz) means it is possible to build up infrastructure while on campaign without sacking your own future homeland/core territory.

[Aemilius Paulus]

That is why I have precisely seven backups of my Savegames. Nothing can stop me from fully enjoying EB!! Muahahaha!!!

[Nachtmeister]

That is why I have precisely seven backups of my Savegames. Nothing can stop me from fully enjoying EB!! Muahahaha!!!

On the same HDD? Muahahahaha...!!

[Tolg]

On the same HDD? Muahahahaha...!!

On each of my 3 EHDs. Muahahahaha...!!




Sry, I couldn't contain myself.

[geala]

Nice advise about the units in the thread, thanks. Until now I couldn't force myself to play people who wear long trousers *shudder* but perhaps sometimes in the future...