Thrace

**Craterus** · 05-06-2005, 21:44

Originally Posted by Bruzhev

Bastarnae with gold weapons and 3 gold chevrons are quite a formidable force when used against legionairies...

Yeah, their 2 HP bonus will help too.

**katank** · 05-07-2005, 02:03

Bastarnae are tough. Too bad they don't seem to get AP attack. Falx types should definitely get an AP attack. Traditionally, the Romans had to reinforce their armor and helmets to not get arms and heads loped off so easily by the falxes.

**Craterus** · 05-07-2005, 19:34

Bastarnaes look like they have massive machetes. Wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of one of those guys.

**katank** · 05-08-2005, 03:14

Those falxes are worse than machetes. The inner edge is sharpened. One would hook and pull, loping off a head or arm in the process.

Falxes/rhompaias are ones of the most deadly weapons back in those times. Romans needed to add reinforcing bars to make their armor work better against this.

The falxes should get antiarmour and maybe +2 vs. cav.

**Bruzhev** · 05-08-2005, 03:58

Falxmen are sufficient for butchering hoplites on walls when used with siege towers; and after you annex greece you can afford a full stack of bastarnae (and a few cretabs+illyrians) to annex rome. Of course, annexing greece is the hard part.

**pezhetairoi** · 05-09-2005, 04:00

Absolutely, bastarnae are all you need. Perhaps we should all mod our bastarnae to give them AP, it certainly seems right that they get that sort of advantage at least. Did falxmen have an advantage against horses? I didn't know that...