Crazy Armies

[marcusbrutus]

Hi everyone, I have come out of the shadows and decided to post to feed my total war addiction!

I get bored organising balanced armies because I fight similar battles over and over again in the campaign, so I have ended up making unusual mixes of troops and putting them under the command of a raving loon This gives the AI more of a chance and forces you to use different tactics to what you normally would

My favorite at the moment is an army of 50% horse archers, 25% ballistas and 25% velites. They are off on an expidition to 'explore' russia.

Does anyone else have any favorite unusual armies?

[Arrowhead]

Well not very unusual for me but my 85% Forester warband unit is one of my favorites.

[Franconicus]

Marcusbrutus

when I palyed a Germania campaign I send a family member with one Gothic cav through Scythia south. They gathered all mounted mercs they could get: some Samatian Lancers, one Scythian archer, one barb cav.

With these I met the Brutii. A very big battle. Please look at my post in Germania.

[tibilicus]

Craziest army i ever had was one made up of entire generels. it was brutii and there were plenty to go round. It was great because the A.I being as dumb as it is every time you auotmated a battle you would always win !
Aaaahhhhhhhh good times....................

[Craterus]

I have a full army of chariot archers lol...

[Arrowhead]

An army of chariot archers! hahahahaha. Bet their unstoppable. lol.

[Craterus]

Indeed, a few elites also, Gold Attack, Gold Defence and one Gold chevron. I think I have 3 units of elite chariot archers

[The Stranger]

Well not very unusual for me but my 85% Forester warband unit is one of my favorites.

my URBAN SPARTAN COHORTS kill everyone

[Arrowhead]

my URBAN SPARTAN COHORTS kill everyone

They don't exist!

[mfberg]

They don't exist!

No, he meant his Urban Spartan Cataphract Elephant Chariot Archers, you know, the ones with the wardogs.

mfberg

[Arrowhead]

No, he meant his Urban Spartan Cataphract Elephant Chariot Archers, you know, the ones with the wardogs.

mfberg

Riiiight...why didn't he tell me!

[Craterus]

He was being economic with the truth?

No, he meant his Urban Spartan Cataphract Elephant Chariot Archers, you know, the ones with the wardogs.

Now that is a crazy army.. Unbeatable I'd say..

I only know of one army that could beat it..

Urban, Spartan, Cataphract, Elephant, Chariot Archers, you know, the ones with the wardogs with a better commander..

[Arrowhead]

Make that yutseb ele's.

[Craterus]

Those giant elephants are useless against a small unit. I sent them to charge a group of ten legionaries and they just kept stomping around...

Stupid elephants.. I sent some cavalry to do the job.

[Count Belisarius]

Anybody ever fielded an army composed entirely of war dogs and/or flaming pigs?

[tibilicus]

For a laugh i tried the flaming pig army not ver sucsesfull but very funny............

[Arrowhead]

A whole army of peasants against a whole army of scythe chariots.The scythes cut through them like a knife through hot butter...

[Romeus Petrus]

To me, it is the pathetic AI that insist on attacking my army of 8 phalanges, 8 archers and 4 heavy onagers on a bridge, time after time with massive losses on their side and almost none on mine.

When will they ever learn?

[Romeus Petrus]

To me, it is the pathetic AI that insists on attacking my army of 8 phalanges, 8 archers and 4 heavy onagers on a bridge, time after time with massive losses on their side and almost none on mine.

When will they ever learn?

[Oaty]

Why such elite troops for these odd armies.

Go for about a 25 percent mix of lowlies like town watch or something in your army.

[Craterus]

On MP, I field some peasants if I have 150 denarii left at the end..

[The Stranger]

Riiiight...why didn't he tell me!

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because i thought you knew

[The Stranger]

Anybody ever fielded an army composed entirely of war dogs and/or flaming pigs?

i did once, a army of pigs vs a army of eles, well guess who had roasted pigs for dinner

[Arrowhead]

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because i thought you knew

Interesting. Not that they existed.

[The Stranger]

well they will

[Siris]

Well, when playing as Macadonia for the first time, I sent North one of my best Diplomats ever in the game, and turned one of the Dacyin Royal Family members, with him, came two units of former Dacians to fight with him, some random barbarrian stuff.

So they traveled with the Diplomat, bribbing towns, recruiting barbarrians, & other Dacian family members/armies.

I had an entire army of Dacians in the end, more than one army, and that guy took over one of the Dacian towns up there, & in the later years of the Realm of mine, he built it to a nice fortress city, with over 30,000 in population. By that time, Macadonia extended all the way North, & was heading East & West against the Romans, winning every battle within 2-5 minutes!

The strange thing is... before that in the Campaign, I had three other Dacian family members that had joined up, in a different army, along with a huge Dacian mercinary army, they seiged the Dacian Capital, where two other Dacian family members were with their own Dacian army.

I had gone to the bathroom, & when I got back, I remembered that when the enemy sallies, they automatically attack, you get no time to organize!, so they had attacked without my commanding, & I got there in time to watch all three of my General Dacian family members deck it out with the enemy Dacian family members. I managed to kill both of them, and lost all three of mine, along with the army, but the Dacians were hurt terribly. -- Point is, FIGHT THE ENEMY, WITH THE ENEMY!!! It saves on your men so well! Had a little Civil War on there lol!

In this Campaign, within eight hours, I had conquered & expanded more than any other Campaign, which I was astonished.

[professorspatula]

In a non-serious campaign I had as Germania, I used quite a few peasant armies. With temples that give +3 experience, plus the weaponsmith, those barbarian peasants go into combat with 5 attack and 8 defence and cost hardly anything (ok so I reduced upkeep on all lower units a bit and training time). I had a few Night Raiders to command the peasant armies and sent them off against the Gauls. I won a great victory against a moderate sized Gaul force - killing a family member in the process. The victorious peasants then tried taking a Gaul city. Sadly despite killing the Gaul king and a many more Gauls, some stubborn Chosen swordsmen prevented my peasants from entering the city whilst masses of Forester warbands destroyed their resolve with an unrelenting storm of arrows. And so ended the march of the Germanic Peasant army, with 2,000 kills to their name, but ultimately a pauper's funeral for the lot of them.

I've had a few more Peasant armies, but I mainly auto-resolved the outcomes, which only meant giving the enemy lots of fodder to gain highly experienced troops. I had an all-beserker army in reserve too but never got round to using the psychotic-lunatics before ending the campaign.

[Arrowhead]

well they will

What do you mean?

[tibilicus]

How interesting....... I have never tried a peasent army on RTW but on MTW ( in my noobey days ) I would send out horde after horde of these lowly men...... Not to much sucsess though.....

[Franconicus]

Did you ever fight with an army of 8 Scythian Horse Archers and nothing else. That means almost 900 horse archers waiting on a hill for the signal to attack. You feel like Sitting Bull waiting for General Custer to come.