Sweboz - How to deal with the Sauro threat freom the east?

[vollorix]

The range of Sauros HAs is enoough to keep them away from the walls while shooting at your units. And normaly, their troops immidietly move away and take positions far away from the gates, but unlike other infantry based armies they are permanently on skirmishing mod if you attack them with anything else then skirmishers/archers. And while you are moving forward they´ll shoot your poor armoured troops down, since shield value 3 of most of your units won´t even protect them from the front, so they will be shot to pieces...

[ziegenpeter]

The range of Sauros HAs is enoough to keep them away from the walls while shooting at your units. And normaly, their troops immidietly move away and take positions far away from the gates, but unlike other infantry based armies they are permanently on skirmishing mod if you attack them with anything else then skirmishers/archers. And while you are moving forward they´ll shoot your poor armoured troops down, since shield value 3 of most of your units won´t even protect them from the front, so they will be shot to pieces...

Exactly.
I think that Baltic archers, Celtic slingers are a good combo on open field. When it comes to fighting in a city, as I said before I'd rather rely on Duguntiz (Skandinavian spearman are to far away!) and Sloxonez, maybe some Dacian skirmishers. The problem is that they never seem to assault a city, I always have to attack them with a second army, with costly HA mercs. And since I don't have taken any scythian regions yet I can't recruit any fancy bosporan archers or greek hoplites or HA. I eventually lost the Bastarnae, so I have to get back to the drawing board. For now rule over all the germanic regions, plus Ascaucalis, Carrodunum and G-Ostan. I don't want to conquer gaul so early, since the celts are able to build better stuff (paved roads, stone walls) and I want to take a place in a made nest. Muahahaha

[Havok.]

Ahh true, but thats what i would do, giving the fact i would have a decent unit to exhaust their arrows, but if such unit wasn't in the defending army, well, hm....

[The_Blacksmith]

ahh... this is where i would invade the Alps for some lovely celtic slingers... get them some chevrons by auto-res'sing on some rebels and use them... deadly stuff :D

its allmost like cheating? but but but... you aint getting nowhere with your Suebi troops they will tear you apart... allso, i find the idear: "if you cant beat them, copy them" perfect for this one... hire loads of merc HA's and Riders... and slingers :P

[ziegenpeter]

Well my Slingers from Carrodunum start witch 1 silver(!) chevron! lvl4 gov+field of games+temple of tiuwaz and then there is also the smithy...
btw: do missile units get a melee bonus from smithies? they never have the sword symbol.

[CashMunny]

I don't know. But they should get armor bonuses, which is good since they have like 2 armor to start with it's a 50% increase in armor technically.