Quote Originally Posted by vollorix View Post
Well, yes, there is quite a difference whether you play SP or MP it seems.
Concerning Drapanai vs. Bataroas: charging straight ahead with Drapanai, and recieving all the missile volleys would be really bad for the naked guys; but if i´ll sacrifice one unit of Drapanai in loose formation, exposing them to the javelines of the Bataroas, i´d say i might break Bataroas afterwards, but i have to try it out yet...
Concerning Thracian Peltast and their Elites: that´s exactly the point in using Drapanai against them - the former are armoured to teath, got "ap" weapons, but the "poor" naked Drapanai lack any armour + cut through of those guys like nothing - that is a contradiction, imo, because all i need are a couple of slingers, archers and Drapanai to take those Thracian settlements. My army costs 1/3 of the garrison, my casualities are irrelevant ( cheap ), and another "Heroic Victory" is guaranteed ;)
Batacorii do indeed suffer heavy causalities if outflanked, and even AI loves flanking them, but hey, once all javelines are spended, i guess one can overwhelm German troops.

Btw: can some one explain me, why the Thracian Doriophoroi, as well as Briton Midland Spearmen got 55 missile range? Those are levies/semi levies, their attack value is that of a low tier javeline, but they got that insane range, especially the Doriophoroi since they got 4 javelines!?! You ain´t need any skirmishers, actually, your levy line troops do the job superb, and the Thracians are even much plentier ( 120 men on large ) then many skirmisher units. I would understand if those were kind of specialists, levies, but still, but no, they are no where near it....
Thraikian Doruphoroi have good javelins in keeping with the theme that the Getai/Dacian/Thraikian faction is a faction of skirmishers. So their tier 1 spearman has skirmisher like range and higher jav count, though lacking the ability to actually skirmish.

BTW I just realized I was wrong, the temples of Cernunnos are the ones that bestor +3 chevrons for the Sweboz, and there is often one in the Carnute city, not Bratosporios, so no 5 chevron Batacorii.