Casse Gameplay Guide

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Personally I prefer an extremely slow start with the Casse - there's no hurry, since no other faction will seriously try to conquer Britain for at least 100 years.

I start by focusing on defeating the two Elutheroi armies in the open field, and building up my starting town.

Once the two Elutheroi field armies are destroyed, I go raiding the enemy towns in Britain - attacking them just with my family members. An army composed of chariots and absolutely nothing else - no foot soldiers at all! I attack enemy towns with a much smaller force, so they sally out to fight me. Then I attack with my chariots, throwing javelins, charging at any unit that looks vulnerable, and pulling back out of melee when in serious trouble. When I'm out of javelins and have lost about half my chariots, I withdraw from the battlefield so my family members don't get killed. I don't care if I 'lose' the battle, since it's not a 'real' battle, it's only a raid! A 'raid' means 'attack, then run away.' Then on the next turn, I retreat my army back to my home town to recover.

Being all family members, my chariots replenish automatically, free of charge. Then I go raid the enemy town again.

I continue raiding in this way until the enemy town's garrison becomes weak enough that I can get a chariot unit through the main gate (pursuing a routing enemy unit) and reach the town square! Once I can do that, I can actually conquer the town by slaughtering routing enemies. A town conquest, without using rams or foot soldiers!