Numidia

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 04-14-2007, 20:57

Your DI has better morale in the fight than do your legionaries. The Legionaries have much better armor and pila. So I'd recommend putting your DI all in the front rank and using the legionaries for gap attacks and lobbing javelins over the line.

Have you fought the post-marian romans?

What did you use as heavy cavalry, as Numidia lacks this?

**Ezephkiel** · 04-15-2007, 02:17

I found you didn't need a super heavy cavalry really, combining camels with long shields has worked well.

Long Shields have got an all right charge, so can do that role ok and camels are good for anti cavalry.

The only trouble i've had in battle is the egyptian chariots, but i just help my infantry firm and let it charge in, putting the 1st and 2nd rank units close together, so the chariots go straight through and get bogged down, also managed to sandwich one between two units of camels.

Not sure if the camels give the demoralizing effect to chariots though.

**Poulp'** · 04-15-2007, 05:29

type east scythed chariot
(...)
mount_effect elephant -8, camel -4

On the paper, chariots seem to suffer penalties from fighting camels, yet on the battlefield, routing scythed chariots still can rip the camels pursuing them...

**Good Ship Chuckle** · 01-25-2008, 01:30

I have played many of the notorious factions on the H/VH level and have found the most recent ones to be a walk in the park. My next campaign is definately going to Numidia. As a person seeking a challenge, am I wrong in choosing this faction? Hardly. Forging an empire by planting the starting seeds in the desert wasteland will be no easy task.
Economically, they are poor.
Geographically, they are poor.
Militarily, they are poor.
Diplomatically, they are poor.

Did I miss anything? Please alert me to any other facts of how much the Numidians suck. I will be ever so eager to hear, and anticipate my goliath of a task.