Lusotana Campaign

[TvFootball]

Hello, Im playing a Lusotana campaign and its is fantastic. It is 250 BC and I have conquered all of Iberia besides the Numantia. I was going to attack it but the adviser told me they are good allies and would rise a large army if I attacked them so I backed off. Anyway, the Auedi have attacked my city Emporion. When they did, the adviser popped out and was going to say something but I missed because it was during the turn. Does anyone know what he says? Is there some way to get it?

Thank you

(Now to destroy those Gauls )

[The Stranger]

most likely he said that the numantians have honoured the alliance and have raised an army to fight off the invaders. its somewhere in the southern part of the region. i dont really know how it works tho, that army never helped me out and even attacked me once when i was too close to it. perhaps you can bribe it cheap...


about the lusotannan, i played it too, was in roughly the same situation as you are now around the same time, tho i had to fight romans instead of the aduei. but i am very dissapointed by the unit roster :S specially the native units are nothing fierce. i have modded the dosidataskeli back in because otherwise its just a bit meh

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Problem is that falcata lethality is too low compared to other ap weapons like axes. Raise it and the kopis to 0.13 or 0.14 and see what a difference it makes.
Plenty of Luso units are good though, they just skew towards irregulars rather than elites.

[The Stranger]

might be but they are bloody expensive compared to the roman infantry but not much if any better than the roman units. The diversity of their units is just a bit dissapointing :S

i know that heavy weapons have a higher lethality than light weapons, but light spears have higher attack than light swords even tho the sword unit is generally more expensive. does the sword unit have a higher attackrate? because lethality is usually the same.

take the loricati scutarii, one of the heaviest spanish infantry around if you do not want to go the elite ampakaro. They cost about 2k denarii and almost 500 for upkeep. They are only 1 defensive stat better than the Polybian Hastati, same attack but with lower lethality (so yes perhaps its a good idea to upgrade all these lethalities of falcata and kopis) The moral and discipline stats are identical. The only thing that is siginificantly better is the javelin throwing and charge. And for that you pay almost double the price. Ofcourse this might all be historical, the scutarii are good regular infantry and its probably very accurate that the spanish only had a few elite units. But I do wonder why the Roman infantry is so freaking cheap! Is that historical or just to give the AI Romani an edge and represent their dominance in the field?

[Blxz]

Luso's are very powerful. And the cost should be compared against the fact that you are sitting in one of the richest area's of the map.

[The Stranger]

once you get those mines up and running but thats easier said than done. anyway cost should be related to equipment and training. upkeep to being irregular, regular or elite (in the end that is usually similar to length of training and quality of equipment). and this is generally well balanced in EB, but the romans are a weird exception.