Spain

[pezhetairoi]

Well as I see it, should we do what the AI did, and spend everything we have on recruiting troops and mercs and reuniting the peninsula while making Osca dispensable? I.e. we allow Osca to be lost to the Julii while we reunite the peninsula, then try to engage them in a sally battle or something by sieging Osca back with one unit and 19 others as reinforcements or something...

Does that make any sense to you? I mean, Osca's rich, but that's better than spreading out your forces against a force that has an equal chance of beating you as you have of beating it...

[HarunTaiwan]

In my Spanish campaign, I've just out the last Julii city under seige.

Roundshields have served me well - you just need 6 units of them!

Also, keep in mind they can hide in the trees....nothing scares a Roman more than a charge to the back from the woods.

[pezhetairoi]

...6 units, in forests. I got that. Now, time to return to my Scythian campaign... all that questioning in previous posts was just preparing the ground for my switching to spain later, but I'm really quite scythian in outlook :-P

[HarunTaiwan]

Here's what I did, it was 1-3 odds and I had only 6 units or so of cav.

General unit is always visible, so the Captained cav was the bait. He sat in the open field.

There were woods flanking the direct path to the Captain. I hid the rest of the Cav there.

When the Julii army passed by, I sent all the concealed units to hit the flank. You need to send them all at once at one unit (or two.) Once they hit, either the unit routs or holds. If it holds, grab your units and have them charge a distant unit - they will "go through" the holding unit and usually it swamps them.

Then I ran around the rear killing doggies, velites, etc. Finally, I attacked his remaining infantry peicemeal... I was surprised it worked. Heroic Victory.

[Craterus]

Here's what I did, it was 1-3 odds and I had only 6 units or so of cav.

General unit is always visible, so the Captained cav was the bait. He sat in the open field.

There were woods flanking the direct path to the Captain. I hid the rest of the Cav there.

When the Julii army passed by, I sent all the concealed units to hit the flank. You need to send them all at once at one unit (or two.) Once they hit, either the unit routs or holds. If it holds, grab your units and have them charge a distant unit - they will "go through" the holding unit and usually it swamps them.

Then I ran around the rear killing doggies, velites, etc. Finally, I attacked his remaining infantry peicemeal... I was surprised it worked. Heroic Victory.

Nice strategy, not my kind of strategy but it seems to have worked perfectly there.

[Yukon Cornelius]

I'm surprised you managed to ambush the AI with concealed units. For some reason the enemy loves to head directly for my hidden units. They do not pass Go. They do not collect $200. They ignore my visible units and plow straight into the hidden ones. I play on VH/M, so maybe the AI units have ESP when the Strategic map is set to Very Hard (which would probably indicate a bug since, if the game's going to cheat like that, it should do so only on Very Hard Battle difficulty -- you know, since it happens during battle).

[katank]

This always occurs for all the TW games. Kinda ruins the hidden ability of some units. They tend to make a beeline for your hidden units.

Otherwise, you see something like a worthless AI unit of 1 man cav speeding ahead far in front of all their troops, run into your ambush, discove it, and run away.

Personally, I see no point in hiding. Woods are just good for barbarians and also for infantry screwing cav. Round shield do need 4-5 charging together to be effective. Like I said, the sheer mass can punch through many units. However, if the enemy manage to get infantry into the woods and catch your roundshields in the woods, then they are really dead.

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Hi all im a new guy and I need some help playing Spain
I modded the descr_strt to make it playable but when i click on it to play the game crashes. Ive been looking forward to Spain but I cant play it.
Can someone help?