Easily Capturing a city

[jirisys]

Hey, my first post, i battle Pyrroh's Epiretos army on Taras to take the city with 2 of each camillan reform cohorts (triarii, hastatii, principes, leves, accensi, rorarii, equites romani, equites campanici, hastati samnitici) one equites consulares, and one misthophoroi phalangitai (mercenary hellenic medium phalanx) and devised a strategy to use them i took all but the triarii and the hastati samnitici (they were busy fighting to get to the plaza's flanks) and pretty much mixed them all up and ended up with this, the most deadly formation for fighting on a city street (nowhere to flank the phalanx by the rear because 3 cohorts were protecting them and if attacking by the front, they chose to die either by: long sharp spear of the phalanx, not so long but still deadly sharp spear by the principes or deadly swords of the hastati, and all that was in front of the phalanx it was like )

Phase 1: (rorarii and phalanx with the rest separated)


Phase 2: (rorarii and phalanx with the rest right behind)






Phase 3: (hastati, principes and phalanx with the rest right behind)


The results of my formation: (phalanx cohort killed 163 of 600, more than any other cohort)

[Fluvius Camillus]

Ave New one,

Welcome to the forums!

I did read it and looked at it, you are showing us how to effectively take a city?

Could you please try to use more interpunction (commas, dots). Your strory looks like one giant sentence, which can be hard to read.

Have a good time at the forum!

~Fluvius

[Macilrille]

Welcome to the forum a wonderful world of nerdness and all the usual traits on the net, lots of nerdness though :-D

[seienchin]

I guess the trick is kind of old
Works in Vanilla also.
Try using it at bridge battles also.

[jirisys]

I guess the trick is kind of old
Works in Vanilla also.
Try using it at bridge battles also.

Yeah bridge battles too, but the problem is if they wont get near you, they just stay at the end waiting for you, and since you have it on unlimited time you can't do anything about it, and also a problem is that the formation gets messed up once you move it, so you have to move one cohort at a time. Btw i noticed some screens on the site that showed a cohort crossing a river, can you do that? if you can then the phalanx on the bridge would be useless

[Fluvius Camillus]

Yeah bridge battles too, but the problem is if they wont get near you, they just stay at the end waiting for you, and since you have it on unlimited time you can't do anything about it, and also a problem is that the formation gets messed up once you move it, so you have to move one cohort at a time. Btw i notices some screens on the site that showed a cohort crossing a river, can you do that? if you can then the phalanx on the bridge would be useless

It can be done in the more shallow places of the river, where it is possible for any infantry to cross the river. Actual swimming is not possible in EB RTW.exe

~Fluvius

[Subotan]

Welcome to the forum a wonderful world of nerdness and all the usual traits on the net, lots of nerdness though :-D

Not enough so that anyone who posts here is automatically a nerd though.

[jirisys]

Not enough so that anyone who posts here is automatically a nerd though.

yes the only saved ones are on the troubleshooting section, and most non-nerd people don't look for the game to be more historically acurate, so maybe we all are nerds

[Subotan]

I'm pretty sure the combination of soon-to-be PPEist, history buff, Mafia games and this forum make me a nerd though.

EDIT: That said, I lack the other features of nerdom (Smelliness, social incompetence, lack of style, no sense of humour)