Destroying Sap points

**Vincent Butler** · 07-01-2014, 20:15

I have not yet gotten to levy phalanx units, are they in an advanced barracks?

**QuintusSertorius** · 07-01-2014, 20:59

Originally Posted by Vincent Butler

I have not yet gotten to levy phalanx units, are they in an advanced barracks?

Ah, I don't think Romans can recruit them. There's always mercenary phalangitai.

**Vincent Butler** · 07-02-2014, 22:03

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

There's always mercenary phalangitai.

Who are expensive and cannot be retrained, only combined. Drat. I was hoping I could at least get Native Phalanx. So much easier as a garrison. And Large Stone Walls are the best I can do, right? There are no Epic Stone Walls? I know those could destroy sap points.
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. Nehemiah 4:13 KJV

**Maeran** · 07-02-2014, 23:14

It doesn't seem to have been answered previously, but better quality archers are a good idea for cities you expect to be attacked. Better ranges mean more shooting time before those siege towers reach the wall. A cavalry dash can hold up the siege machinery too, which can help buy time for the archers to do their job.

**QuintusSertorius** · 07-02-2014, 23:43

Originally Posted by Maeran

It doesn't seem to have been answered previously, but better quality archers are a good idea for cities you expect to be attacked. Better ranges mean more shooting time before those siege towers reach the wall. A cavalry dash can hold up the siege machinery too, which can help buy time for the archers to do their job.

I prefer to have an army for the region able to come and relieve a siege. Plus it means that you get a proper field battle, rather than yet another tedious siege to play out.

**Vincent Butler** · 07-03-2014, 06:54

If I am a phalanx faction, I prefer to fight in town. If I use a manipular formation, I like fighting outside, or setting up my maniples on the town square and letting my towers wear down their units; in a large Roman/Greek city, if they attack from certain sides, they can lose over 50% of their men sometimes, I have seen as high as 80% casualties before they reach me.

Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: Psalm 144:1 KJV

**Vincent Butler** · 07-10-2014, 21:02

Something I have found out, if there are less than ten men in a unit, they cannot sap. If positioning allows, I use my missile units to wipe out the unit heading to the sap point so that they stop. Two slingers and two archers decimate enemy units when firing from the wall.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. Judges 9:51-54 KJV