Quote Originally Posted by wooly_mammoth View Post
Yup, but you get companions together with cataphracts and elite pikemen together with legionaries when playing as the much more interesting Seleucid Empire. Maybe I'll try Macedonia out when I play mods.

Anyway, you guys were right, the brits do get small chariot units.

Generals rock though, in the battle of Alesia I ran those wagons through a blob of light gallic cav & gallic generals and just melted everything.
That is what happens to cav. If you try a mod, I recommend the Europa Barbarorum mod if you are not playing on a Mac. Rome is not as good as they should be, but your first (Camillan) triarii are hoplites and your first Hastati are spearmen. Barbarians can make stone walls, barracks levels upgrade to train your cav, missile units, and siege. First units are actually slingers and skirmishers. You can build levy barracks to train regional troops, sometimes outside of Italy as Rome that is your only option for a long time. Things are expensive, though, especially mercenary cav. Wonders are different, navies cost a LOT of money. But I really like it, it is more realistic, though I think the Roman units, especially the cohort, are not good enough, or the Barbarians are too good.