Bah!!!!

[Andy1984]

Fighting Sweboz in a heavily forested area:

1. Train sufficient missile units. For Roman players: accensi, laesotae, sotaroas and scythian foot/horse archers are an excellent choice.
2. Position yourself somewhere in a forest close to (or in the lands of) the Sweboz.
3. Build a fortress at the end of your turn.
4. When you are besieged, sally and start to skirmish with Sweboz. They're truly great at it. Retreat your missiles behind your main line once they charge you. You'll notice the charging units will halt and turn back. You can now order your retreating missile units to stop and fire, thus butchering these retreating attackers by missile fire. Don't worry, once they decided to turn back, they'll try to reach their main line first, before launching a second charge at your missiles. That is: should they survive...


If you don't have the funds or the troops to organise this kind of missions:
1. Train some decent archers or slingers. Keep them somewhere near your borders. Scythian local units work perfect. I prefer some four units of scythian foot archers and a unit of scythian horse archers. You can add other (velites, accensi, hastati,...) units if you like to.
2. Search and destroy minor (and not so minor) Sweboz armies.
3. Enjoy Sweboz forces getting merciless slaughtered. Scythian foot archers should kill some 200 men/unit for each engagement. Retreat in the unlikely event you find yourself out of ammo.
4. Continue your 'border patrol'.