celts v romans

**green jacket** · 10-16-2011, 23:47

I've recently just united britain and ireland under the casse banner and started an invasion of mainland europe by taking most the rebel provinces in western gaul. Then the gallic civil war broke out and seeing rome, the cassi and Arverni where all allied we have destroyed the Aedui. I took most of central gaul, the Arverni took the west and rome took the Aedui provinces in northern italy and now also has the provinces in southern gaul that are connected to the mediterranean.

I was thinking about moving against the sweboz or the Arverni but i think with my alliances to them my current faction leader would like to stay allied to his celtic brothers. I also thought about moving into iberia, however Carthage has always been a good ally and see both them an the iberians have been allied to me for quite a while i've decided to go for a weakened rome.

However this is my first campaign, how do the celts actually fare against the romani? Looking at their unit stats their attack values seem similar (if not worse) and their defense seem very low due to their lack of armour. Do the celts usually get slaughtered when fighting rome?

**Maeran** · 10-17-2011, 00:04

When the AI plays Rome, it tends to fill its armies with triarii and pedites extraordinarii - allied Italian elites. As such your poorly armoured Gauls and Britons will suffer, especially in the early battles. But with access to lots of morale boosting/enemy scaring units like the druids, naked spearmen and chariots, you can turn the tide by bringing these units close to the enemy. Don't let your chariots get caught though, they will drop like flies if you do.

Celtic units have very strong charges, make sure you use this and don't just let the Romans come to you. Also remember that Celtic slingers have a better range than the Roman accensi, slingers use lead or stone bullets that are effective against armour.

**Arjos** · 10-17-2011, 00:12

That's a very "vast" question, geographically and temporally speaking...
Romani and Keltoi fought eachother, side by side, even side by side against more Keltoi or employed by other nations to fight the Romani, for a period of 400 years and even more, from Iberia to Anatolia and from Britannia to Africa...
They influenced eachother immensely and as for you question they slaughtered and got slaughtered...
If you would like to know about a certain region and period, we can narrow the answer, but as Keltoi against Romani is almost all the battles the SPQR had in its history :D

As for the game, exploit their charges and scare abilities :)

**antisocialmunky** · 10-17-2011, 00:17

Teceitos kill everything. Build them.

**green jacket** · 10-17-2011, 00:24

I did see those "teceitos" (or celtic axemen to us simple folk). Loved them in the couple of battles i have used them in however they dont look quite right compared to the rest of the cassi army :P lol.

**Arjos** · 10-17-2011, 00:31

As for the Casse roster, these units are amazing: kluddargos, milnhat, cwmyr, drwdae, pictone neitos, calawre and rycalawre...
Soon as you have a solid general with druidic traits, basically you can rout any army with a charge and suffer no losses :D