Re: Army Formations
Ok, for the gauls, bring bunch of rorarii and triarii, and THE ENTIRE FAMILY. Stretch your line as much as you can, put them on stand ground, flank with your brother-in-law, nephew, uncle, roommate and slice them from behind.
And that pretty much solves the problem of cavalry reserve.
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Re: Army Formations
I dont bring mulitple family members into my battles lol. Ever. I perfer FM use for Govenors and Generals. Though the would work for my old Seleucid campaign last i checked i had like 150 family members and only about 40ish settlements for some reason the AS family tend to pop out FM's by the but load.Originally Posted by NoHelmet
Re: Army Formations
You will always have a bunch of pretty much incompetent governors or generals. So what, you are going to let them govern a city and lose money? It's ok if they are good governors, but don't let them rot in the city. Find a good general (morale stats make a good general, btw, not command stars) send some dumb cousins, and roll. It's another thing if you want to recreate roman tactics, but you still play against the AI, and after all, rome was always ready to adapt it's military.
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Re: Army Formations
my method on the battlefield, when not using manipular, is simply that I place the triarii on the right, principes to the left, hastati and rorarii in the middle. leves are in front, accnesi to the rear.
polybian is similar, only there are 2 hastati instead of one, and two principes in place of one and accensi.
just throwing my
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Re: Army Formations
I never seem to use Hastati anymore in Polybian. The only difference in them in that reform is that Princeps wear chainmail. I typically just replace the hast with more principes.my method on the battlefield, when not using manipular, is simply that I place the triarii on the right, principes to the left, hastati and rorarii in the middle. leves are in front, accnesi to the rear.
polybian is similar, only there are 2 hastati instead of one, and two principes in place of one and accensi.
just throwing my
Re: Army Formations
if ye don't, then just arrange the principes according to seniority (i.e, experience). that is assuming you're interested.
in case you're wondering, the alternative formation is inspired by 18th century thinking more than anything. I found that linear tactics are, at least for me, pretty effective.
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Re: Army Formations
I acutally dont get it, if you have 3 lines, your getting much more depth then length, i.e possibilty of a repeat of Cannae,
Why the hell would you wait for the hastati to break? why not use all units together? Again Plain stupidity.
Someone please enlighten me, i can see the sense of 2 lines, but 3 just escape me.
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