The Perfect Army

[Bigwig]

As I was building up for my attack on Rome (and the subsequent civil war), I made about 5 of these "prepackaged" armies that consisted of 4 heavy onagers, 4 archer auxilia, 2 praetorian cavalry, 6 legionary cohorts, 3 urban cohorts, and the general. These armies have been proven time and again to be uber flexible in both the field and in siege situations.

[Red Harvest]

Probably something like:

1 General Body Guard
2 Cretan Archers
4 heavy infantry of whatever faction (for siege sapping--none, if not sieging replace with cav)
12 units of heavy cav
1 elephant for knocking down the gates of wooden walled cities or breaking the center of infantry armies so the cav can destroy them.

[Amon_Zeth]

I usually go

1 Roman General
3 Archer Auxilia
4 Praetorian Cavalry
4 Auxilia
8 Urban Cohorts

[Oaty]

20 auxilia archers....... at least until the next patch

[AngryGerbil]

As I was building up for my attack on Rome (and the subsequent civil war), I made about 5 of these "prepackaged" armies that consisted of 4 heavy onagers, 4 archer auxilia, 2 praetorian cavalry, 6 legionary cohorts, 3 urban cohorts, and the general. These armies have been proven time and again to be uber flexible in both the field and in siege situations.

I did the same thing, I found a formula that worked and just kept cranking out cookie cutter armies, mine were similar. Question: why 4 onagers? And why 6 Legionary Cohorts and 3 Urbans instead of just 9 Urbans? Maybe I missed something in the stats? Anyway, here was mine:

1 General
2 Roman Cavalry
2 Praetorian Cavalry
2 Heavy Onagers
4 Archer Auxilia
4 Auxilia
5 Urban Cohort

I find fewer Onagers gives me a bit more flexiblity when attacking. I'm a bit weaker on sieges but 2 Onagers can destroy both the gatehouse and the door on Epic Walls. 4 would be nice, to make multiple holes, but all you need is 2.

[DisruptorX]

The perfect army would be nothing but Cataphract archers. Not only are they some of the best archers in the game, but they are all but immune to missles and can beat most infantry in hand to hand.

[The_678]

The perfect army would be nothing but Cataphract archers. Not only are they some of the best archers in the game, but they are all but immune to missles and can beat most infantry in hand to hand.

^^^^^
That is so sad but true

[footman]

haha1

5 royal spike man and 15 macedonian heavy calary

or 20 spartons

[AngryGerbil]

The perfect army would be nothing but Cataphract archers. Not only are they some of the best archers in the game, but they are all but immune to missles and can beat most infantry in hand to hand.

I've only played as Julii and Gauls on campaign mode so far and as such, have only really fought signifigantly against Germania, Brittania, Spain, Thrace, Daicia, Carthage, Greece, Macedon and Rome....

Who gets these Cataphracts? Seludcids? Pontians?

[sakuraoni]

how do you get cataphract archers? im playing as the parthians but i dont see the unit in the tech tree?

[DisruptorX]

To answer your questions, the Armenians get them. I don't know about others.

[footman]

how do you get cataphract archers? im playing as the parthians but i dont see the unit in the tech tree?

it's armenia 's army

[DisruptorX]

it's armenia 's army

yea....I don't know why I said scythia. It is indeed Armenia.