Regarding Spears and Cavalry

[nameless]

Just a question, I was trying out the capabilities of the Auxilla to combat Calvary compared to Legionary Cohort fighting Calvary. This was set on medium. In both tests the romans won. The Auxilla suffered 38% casualities but Legionary Cohort suffered only 8% casualties.

Also looking at the numbers and bonuses, the Auxilla's fighting strength is 5 and a bonus of 4 which gives it an attack of 9, equal to that of a Cohort except the Cohort has 22 armor while the Auxilla has 17. So....are these spearmen even worth it? or is it better to jack up their bonuses?

[bubbanator]

Well, Auxilia are lightly armored which gives them a big dissadvantage when cavalry charges them. Plus, the cohorts attack is quite a bit stronger than auxilias, even with the bonus.

What you should do, is set auxilias stats to be exactly the same as the cohorts. Have the attack and deffense the same and then run some tests. This should give you some more accurate results to see if the mount_effect actually does anything.


On a side note, I think that it would be hillarious to make archer auxilia 'super-units' with insane attack and deffense, give them the mount_effect bonus, along with armor piercing and body piercing arrows, area effect (like onagers, i assume) and give them the launching property so that men go flying everywhere when they get hit

[nameless]

I gave the Auxillia 9,22; the same as a cohort and the Auxillia suffered only 5% casualities this time while the cohort again suffered 8%.

I'm thinking of just leaving the stats at 5,17 and then jacking the bonus from +4 to +10 or something. Calvary is just too powerful in this game.