Request advice on Aedui...

[Geticus]

good advice... I savor the discussion. taking the Belgian cities would be a good plan, although my army is pinned down dealing with the roman threat... Thank you, and if you remember more, let me know!

Currently, I captured southern Ireland so I can produce decent Goidilic troops, and i at least have a fall back strategy if the Romans capture more towns in Southern Gaul. I just don't want to restart the campaign, since it is interesting and has its own flavor now....

In my experience (so far) the levy spearmen are fine for dealing with barbarians, but they get annihilated by the armored Romans. Massalian Hoplites and Celto-hellenic infantry are specifically my heavily armored troops, whereas the Northern Gallic swordsmen are the standby infantry. The swordsmen seem to die a lot though, even if they deal out some damage in the process. Also, those Caturgis Spearmen from the Alps are decent spearmen with good morale, albeit unarmored. One problem that I have is a lack of cavalry, obviously this is my own fault for not making MIC construction a priority. I also have not been using my temples as proper complements to my military...

Not too much, whenever I played Gauls I got sick of the Romans sending wave after wave of heavy infantry at Mediolanum and South Gaul I got to where I just conquer the ring of cities around Bibracte and then head southeast in full force, burn Rome and industrialize with the profits of pillage and conquest. The hard thing in my experience is to have a strong army to oppose to Rome and enough gold for a second army of conquest in the north. Since you took south Ireland, you already have two armies, if you take North Ireland you will find it is very strong economically, Ynys Mon just across the bay is also great.
But don't overlook Bratosporios, that should be a huge priority as it is a trade hub for the entire North Sea area, 4 or 5 Northern Swordsmen and 4 slingers with a decent general used carefully should do the trick, only divert them from the southern theater for a year and your trade dividends will prove great with Ireland already conquered. Also the Belgae Swordsmen that can be recruited in the Belgae cities are very strong, high lethality, big shields, with excellent morale and stamina and a very tight formation, capable of going toe to toe with most anything.