Had a peculiar battle last night campaigning as Scipii. While my armies were bouncing through the parched deserts of Africa, Some rebels thought the better of it and showed up in my home city on the mainland of Italy. Just a few peasants I thought.. I despatched a general with his bodyguard and 2 Principii and a town guard to wipe them out. It turned out there were 2 hastati, a velitii and an Equiti unit.
quite an opposition from rebels I thought and went straight at them, thinking I should be able to win with my principi straight on collision with hastati. That might have been, but in a suprisingly good show from the AI, or just bad form from my side, (go figure..) The AI bent of one of his hastati, went with two of them into one of my principi en went head on with his equites into my other principe (and threw away his velites in a charge on my town watch, who actually won that fight, but routed later along with my 2 principi just for good measure). His equites practically ate up my fresh armoured principe while they were charging each other! It melted like snow.
Now I know the principi are swordsmen, so a bit of against horsemen, but that equites are capable of this! Luckily, I managed to kill his equites, the two hastati and the remainder of his velites with a single generals unit, with only 4 men down from the original 25, but that is side-info. Wow equites!
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