Romani Lovers... How did u face Horse archers and Heavy cavalry only army?

[Atraphoenix]

There is more suicidal ways better than facing a Human Player who uses HAs while the player himself using romani
like charging your general into the front of phalanxes .....

[Chris1959]

Against the AI late Roman Testudo works very well, the trick is deploying to line before a cavalry charge, against a human player hope he leaves fire at will on !
Scorpiones, have the range to snipe Cata's etc but are very vunerable to missle fire, but an opponet has to react to them.
Best bet would be to use your haevy inf to shield your cavalry and missle troops until the arrows run out, and then counter attack.
If I were the Steppe warriors I'd just wait without firing until you do and then nail your most vunerable troops

[chenkai11]

Seriously, Roman army cannot beat the steppes or nomads, period.

[Atraphoenix]

Seriously, Roman army cannot beat the steppes or nomads, period.

seconded

[Cute Wolf]

Seriously, Roman army cannot beat the steppes or nomads, period.

well, I allready said that to Sonic... but he still insist that someday if he got better skill, he will defeat my saka army with Romaioi.... poor boy.... poor boy.....

[Mikhail Mengsk]

All-imperial legion army. Testudo. Wait until arrows finished.

[antisocialmunky]

I can beat steppe armies with Rome in multi if anyone wants to try. ^.-

[econ21]

If the Roman army is not tailored to fight a steppe army, it seems almost uniquely unsuited to fighting them - lots of impotent heavy infantry (without spears), precious few missiles and cavalry. This is not a EB example, but I inherited a Julii PBM and over-confidently, blundered into such a fight with results that I reckon are historically accurate:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...7&postcount=26

I think to fight a steppe army, the Romans must significiantly increase their missiles, spears and/or cavalry i.e. become more like a late Roman Empire army than the standard Republican one. Slingers would be the first place I would look in EB (although slingers seems ridiculously cost-effective anyway in the mod). I read one account which suggested the legionnaires themselves used slings when fighting the Parthians.

What army composition would you use, Anti-Social Monkey?

[chenkai11]

I can beat steppe armies with Rome in multi if anyone wants to try. ^.-

I would love to see a replay of that. hmmm...you are using SAKA in the online tournament, I guess you know the weaknesses of a cavalry faction.