Quote Originally Posted by wooly_mammoth View Post
200.000 denarii?! O.O

I've never had more than 30.000 denarii when I played the gauls, and I'm half-way through my campaign with the germans with similar monetary perspectives.

Anyway, I think Britannia has the easiest time against legionary armies. Chosen swordsmen, provided they get the bronze smithy upgrades and the chevrons from the temple of Andrasta can actually beat by a comfortable margin a silver wep/armor legionary cohort, so just make a line of chosen swords, warcry abd clash it against the roman line and then flank with the heavy chariots. I tried a version of this back when I played Egypt, just had a column of chariots on manual control ordered to run back and forth like a lawn-more through the roman army, pushing it into the phalanx. It's extremely effective since the romans don't have a real counter to chariots but you must:

a) always order the chariots to keep running through the enemy and never stop to fight, because that's when they get bogged down and destroyed.

b) keep in mind that this strategy doesn't work really in forests, given how slow and ineffective chariots are among trees.

You also have head-hurlers that ignore armor with their missile attack.
I am over 300000 denarii now. I have been taking pretty much only port cities, and focus on saving money, I could probably be farther along if I did not. Then again, I have to wait for my towns to improve because some of the towns I take over are just towns. I guess I could afford to ferry armies from other towns at this point. I like to create replacement armies from other towns, and have a main army on the go. They take over a town, retrain, and move out when the replacement army gets there, it is usually faster than training a garrison before I move out. Haven't tried that this campaign yet. Works really well if you control Italy and Greece because the towns are close together.

I have three armies. One against Rome, one against Germany, one against Spain. I am now using Chosen Swordsmen, especially against Rome. I need them, Rome has Praetorian Cohort. I am getting close to 200 BC, so I don't move as quickly as you. That is with any faction, I am a bit slower in my attacks. Part of that is from retraining a full garrison (well, eight to ten units) before heading out. That is where I like the replacement army idea. But that also makes finances more of an issue.

How do you post pictures, you can't just copy/paste them in, right?