Best unit to receive a chariot charge?

**Hurin_Rules** · 10-21-2004, 08:03

I'm slogging through my campaign as the Julii and things seem to be going well. I've taken everything from Spain to the Baltic sea, but to get to 50 provinces I had to invade Egypt. I thought I had chariots under control when I was fighting the Britons, but the Egyptian ones seem even more deadly. I've been trying to hold them back with praetorian cohorts and such, but they still seem to wreak havoc. Is there a better unit to hold them off? Do other factions have an easier time or better units against the chariots?

**USMCNJ** · 10-21-2004, 08:28

i think phalanx are the best unit for this.
so get some mercenary phalanx from the greek peninsula.
my opinion.

**Oaty** · 10-21-2004, 08:53

Elephants I heard or the best but are expensive as mercenaries. But for me I find wardogs wreak havoc on the chariots loose order formation and the nice thing is wardogs outrun everything, at least it seems they do.

Also it looks great zoomed out, the dogs look like a bunch of maggots going for the fresh meat

**The_Emperor** · 10-21-2004, 09:09

Camels also cut up chariots well in my opinion. Get some Bedouin Archers and Bedouin Warriors and let those smelly camels use their anti-horse bonuses!

**Colovion** · 10-21-2004, 09:32

Best Chariot counter = archers

Melee - probably phalanx. With your units if you can't find any phalanx mercs or archers then just be aware you'll be losing a lot of troops - or lure them out with a garbage unit and then countercharge with another unit

**Doug-Thompson** · 10-21-2004, 15:28

Me too on camels, but I can only find them in Arabian provinces.

Chariots can panic, like elephants. Camels strange effects seem much worse on chariorts than on single-horse units. Panic them with camels, then hit them from behind with the best melee cav you can get. They'll disappear.

**hoof** · 10-21-2004, 18:34

Horse Archers are usually good vs Chariots. They are better than regular archers for this work because they can actually stay away from the Chariots (at least when the AI is controlling the chariots). Put the Horse Archers in Cantebury Circle when going against the archer-Chariots, and they do quite well (take them off that mode if the enemy archer-Chariots start shooting at something else).

For ground troops, I 2nd the Phalanx choice. As a Roman faction, swing a general through original Greek territory (territory that the Greek Cities originally occupy) and you can usually find some Merc Hoplites.