Scythia

[Craterus]

i find missle calvary boring
Craterus i think its more fun playing hand to hand fighting not shoting missles to destroy or rout an army

It's a nice tactic and I'm sure it would beat your infantry-based army if you tried to fight my missile-cav based army. But you never know mate?

[cunobelinus]

i no but i just find it more exciting if u have infrantry and calvary fighting rather than just missle calvary

[Craterus]

i no but i just find it more exciting if u have infrantry and calvary fighting rather than just missle calvary

yea, i know what you mean..
i'm not great at commanding infantry which is why i tend to sway to the side of cavalry.. after all, i'm a great cavalry commander! i remember once, i managed to rout almost a whole Julii army using two Spanish generals.. I bet you can just imagine the battle. And I bet you can imagine my talent and skill as a cavalry commander..

I guess this is why i like to play as the Scythians (good cavalry) but I don't enjoy the playing as the Romans (no cavalry)..

[cunobelinus]

i am suprior infrantry commander i am a great commander all over but infrantry is my stong point i no strong points were to hit and am a great infrantry commander

[Craterus]

I'm sure you favour the Romans and other infantry based factions like Barbarian factions who have good heavy infantry..

I bet you hate factions like Parthia and Armenia where their best infantry troops are Eastern Infantry.

[cunobelinus]

actually i like arminea but i aint a fan of parthia i like arminea because of the catphracts.i dont like teh romans that much they are there infrantry are boring i like germinia and thrace are pretty kwl.scythian nobles are amazing they are amzing and are the and the later babarian warlord.

[Craterus]

actually i like arminea but i aint a fan of parthia i like arminea because of the catphracts.i dont like teh romans that much they are there infrantry are boring i like germinia and thrace are pretty kwl.scythian nobles are amazing they are amzing and are the and the later babarian warlord.

Parthia have cataphracts too. I bet you have never even had a campaign with the Parthians, otherwise you would know about Parthian Cataphracts.

[Franconicus]

I started a Scythian campaign (h/h, large, long), this time with patch 1.2. Scythians are funny to play. In the beginning you have nothing but archers (mounted and unmounted). After playing Germania this is very strange. They remember me of red indians, comanches or so.

I attacked the town sout of my headquarter at once and managed to take the town in the second round. My archers killed more than half of the garrison before I even entered the town. I also fought a battle with one mounted bowman unit against 5 infantry units (heavy falxmen, hoplites, javelins. I run around them and killed more than the half, loosing just a few horses.

Now the bad news. I have two problems.

1. When the armies are getting bigger (5 horse archers against 8 enemy units) the battle field is just to small to avoid close contact. This is even worse when the enemy has cavalry, too.

2. The enemy has a lot of family members with their guards. I can easily kill all their infantry but if their army has enough heavy cavs with some mounted javs the it is my turn to bleed.

3. In this new patch I am not able to retreat my units from the battle ground. This doesn't seem to be very realistic. Cav should be able to break off a battle whenever they like to.

Can anybody help me?

[turnip]

Not had any trouble in my current Scythia game (M/M).
Militia Cavalry can be a pain in the arse, since Skirmish doesn't kick in until long after Javelins are sticking from your HA's corpses. Since your units have longer range, try micro-managing your HAs to run away whenever the Militia Cav get in range. It's annoying, but often the only thing you'll have to do in a battle anyway, so I can live with it.

Family members can do a great deal of damage to your precious units, so use your speed advantage and gang up on them. It may take a little while for them to start dying, but soon enough they'll be dropping like flies.

As for not being able to retreat... not sure what's going on there.
A couple of times my HAs have run out of arrows (usually while shooting those damn Peltasts) and I've been able to withdraw them from the battle without any problems.

[The Hun]

Answer to HA use is to not rely on skirmish mode, always know where your units are and what they face. Cannot say enemy cav is too much threat, they will isolate themselves from their army and become easy pickings.