The Ultimate Battle Turning Unit

**seienchin** · 04-20-2009, 08:56

HAHAHAH Cool Pictures of the chariots ^^.
How do you manage to kill anyone?? My skythed chariots only throw them into the air and never kill anybody, except when they are routing....
My favourite are the Elephants, cause they can turn around everything.

**chenkai11** · 04-20-2009, 11:08

Banzai!, did you changed the stats of your chariots?

**Elcmar** · 04-20-2009, 11:43

Picked Cataphracts, but usually any heavy cavalry charge into the back of a tired enemy works - especially when they've been pinned down by sarrisae (sp) for ages, even medium cav can do the job too

**HunGeneral** · 04-20-2009, 11:44

Cataphract charges above all. - Since I mostly play with nomads + AS but I like heavy cavalry charges for all factions (I always try to get Brihenten or any heavy horsemen for the romans).

Its very dramatic how a whole army can brake from a charge of 2-3 units of heavy cavalry

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I like tindanotte/geasetae a lot aswell but I haven't used them so much.

**Cute Wolf** · 04-20-2009, 11:52

ouw, personally, I also use cataphract / HC charges, but in my opinion, routing them with "frightening" unit is much more the Ultimate weapon.... I use cataphract charges usually to soften the flanks before the line clash... but that's just a style of fight...

And a line full of Gaesatae will make a scythed chariot unit instantly flee....

I didn't add the chariots because it's included in the cataphract / HC type...

**the man with no name** · 04-20-2009, 12:46

I like any heavy cav so i'll just say cataphracts.

**Silence Hunter** · 04-20-2009, 12:47

Heavy cavalry for me. Just love seeing hetairoi charge the backs of doomed enemy forces. makes me feel warm and good inside

**Maion Maroneios** · 04-20-2009, 13:25

Nothing can match Elephants in causing masive chain routs. I mean, pin the enemy down with your phalanx, and sweep parallel to your sarrisae with your elephants. If they don't immediately die, they will do so very soon for sure.

Maion

**Fluvius Camillus** · 04-20-2009, 13:34

Awesome pic Banzai!

Another way to make awesome pics is by playing vanilla. You as Carthage or the Seleucid Empire with Armoured Elephants vs. the Roman Incendiary pigs, both 20 units of them. If the Animals run amok, it gets even more fun. You get nice pics of elephants "playing (pig)soccer".

I voted Cataphracts, awesome if you charge a bunch of lance cavalry in the back!