Import/export business

[Aemilius Paulus]

I have an obsession with keeping my units at full health, so I will constantly ferry them back to my homelands, retraining them, and then sending them off again. Huge, ineffecient, and possibly dangerous (Leaves my frontiers very weak) process, but I like my phalangites with 242 men.

Same here, except that I take a more practical and efficient approach, having a halfstack of reinforcements follow my fullstack of main forces. And then more reinforcements on their way. If I had to ferry my units back and then again... Considering the size of my EB Empires...

[Fierro]

Why not the units together that way you send back a unit or 30 or so men instead of sending 10 units of 170-220 men

[A Very Super Market]

Because I can barely afford a single army, at least when I RP.

[TruePraetorian]

Usually I just recruit whoever I can get my hands on. It also depends on how I am RPing.

For the Romans, though, I almost always have two generals per unit. It is especially helpfull during sieges when I can send one general out to recruit some of the local mercenaries. As for recruiting from cities, most of my cities are Type IV and I am partial to those Iberian troops Cheap and effective.

[bobbin]

Usually go for the Thracian Peltasts and their brethren, also the Bosporian archers and if I'm playing the gallic factions I head east until i can recruit the Boii Cingetos and west to get the Dunaminica.

[option]

As Carthage, with their lack of factional missile units, I always pick up a lot of Balearic Slingers for my western armies and Sardinian Infantry for my eastern ones. The Balearic Light Infantry are also fantastic, and I use them every chance I get.

[Cyclops]

In my current Karthi campaign (VH/H) I am shipping Balearic slings to Iberia ( and skirmishers, no great distances involved) and to italy ( a bit of a pain actually, and they are getting thin so i disbanded them and replaced them with weak Toxotai) and with the Royal army to Egypt (they are almost untouchable when they flee behind the wall of pikes ha ha).

The royal (ahem Shofetic) army is all Karthi elites (sacred band, african pike, african assault and a big fat ele) and the slings are the only regional in there. They get reinforcements from Carthage only.

Otherwise its strictly regional. I built Hellenic stacks in my type 4 govs in Italy (Hellenic merc clients in Taras, Rhegion and Syracuse, Italic Imperator in Capua), but the Tarantines have Bruttians and Lucanians in their little army whereas Syracuse has hoplites as their line troops backed by a mess of Psiloi.

I have a Numidian army (with a forest ele, ah the joy of elephant owning) patrolling across Africa and they can hop on a boat if needed, but I will try to send them as a regional army, not piecemeal forces (although thats perfectly historical for Karthage if i want to). I have local Iberian armies that are ridiculously powerful for their size, full of Lancearii and Loricati: I am lazily grindiing my way into Eleutheroi cities up to the Pyrenees with these atm (tactics not really required, just point and chop). I will consider sending them to Italy under a FM if my Italian locals start crumbling (not happening yet, in fact the Capuan first army is eyeing Rome).

I'm trying to keep track of each seperate force (no stacking, 8 units per minor general) so they go home to rebuild. Its fun to RP an Italian army formed up deep to fight Romans, and being reinforced by a traditional Greek phalanx formed up wide. "Huh? You guys carry your own javelins? And whats with the checkerboard?"