Do you intend to use historical army compositions?

[alexkon3]

When i'm campaigning i tend to use national units and units from my clients. when the war is longer i'll replace them with local mercenaries as soon as the unit is short on men.

[BroskiDerpman]

Depends, I don't like using exact numbers or something.

I generally use my own imagination and what I enjoy from the most.

Or I pretend to reform armies, etc. I make my own story out of EB and the army compositions is one of the perspectives.

[Bambi]

Partially. No when I play Diadochi. I used already in Rome 1 very few pikemen. (In any Arche Seleucia game, the Thorakitai formed the backbone of the armies. Probably not very historically).

[Marcus F]

im a big fan of the Aedui, could anyone give the a possible historically accurate army composition for what the Audui army could have been?

[Ibrahim]

im a big fan of the Aedui, could anyone give the a possible historically accurate army composition for what the Audui army could have been?

a small cadre of professionals and guards (including cavalry), and the rest are a bunch of hapless militia units

[Cybvep]

I never build 20xarchers stacks or sth like that, but I'm not a heavy micromanager and I don't try to actively recreate historical armies, esp. if they don't work that well in-game.

[Bodeni]

im a big fan of the Aedui, could anyone give the a possible historically accurate army composition for what the Audui army could have been?

Early periods: FM cavalry, some medium cavalry, mix of mercenary swords, normal swords and spears.
Late period: slightly more heavy cavalry, far less swords, but higher quality ones. A few spear bands and with lots of archers and short swords to plump up the numbers. Again, slingers and levy spears as garrison.

In both cases, levy spears and slingers should only used defensively and bulk out armies with plenty of regional troops.