Royal Scythian Campaign

[Kamakazi]

Not sure if this is worth its own thread but this has to be the most odd and interesting spread ive ever had in a campaign. My empire literally splits the game map in two pieces.

The German Confederation to my north loves me but wont even give me a defensive alliance. Sparta is a client of Athens and my ally BUT Athens HATES me with a passion.

Im fighting a double north south front in the west of my empire. The bulk of my forces are to the East though, fighting more or less surrounded fight against Seleucid(and its stupid satrapies), Armenia, and Media Antroponte. Agents are raping me sideways (apologies if tbat is to vulgar)

Farthest to the East im fighting Baktria.


Thought yall might find it interesting

[Hooahguy]

Certainly rather unique, Ive never seen a player empire which expanded that way, usually its more like a blob that slowly grows outward.

[Slaists]

LOL, looks almost like Attila's empire.

[Kamakazi]

yea I didn't mean to spread the way I did it just kind of happened. If Athens decides to declare on me I don't know how Sparta will fall and if they side against me my center is screwed

[hoom]

How do you even manage that

My experience to date with using R2 horse archers is that they can't skirmish properly automatically.
They always seem to get run down by stuff they should have run from or fail to approach things I ask them to.
And I completely lack sufficient APM to do it manually.

I really liked the balance that the EB guys had managed to get in the R1 engine, they were very brutal & pretty much skirmished perfectly.

What kind of army makeup do you use against the infantry heavy type enemies & how do you deal with sieges?

[Kamakazi]

I generally run either a total horse army 4 melee with the rest being light horse archers or the armored archers. If I don't run that I add in 4 spear units to pin down enemy infantry in order to flank and get shots to the rear of enemy infantry.

So in a 20 unit stack it would run either:

1x General (Armored Horse Archer)
4X Melee Cav
15X Horse archers usually unarmored but I mix in armored when I can.

or

1x General (Armored Horse Archer)
4x Melee Cav
4x Royal Scythian Spears
11x Horse archers (varied once again)

Generally I siege people out and wait on them to sally fourth so I can destroy their infantry. Macedon fell easily in early game because their infantry never caught me. I have to do a ton of micro managing but I generally run two groups of HA in order to get a type of flank and surround tactic working. The only real threats I run into come from long range archers (galic hunters etc) siege engines and enemy light cav because somehow they always run my guys down. If I don't micro all my cav then they get caught a lot by infantry who should never have gotten close.