If you have Barbarian mercenaries, put them in front of the army. They are spearmen and very effective against a cavalry charge. Hastati really are useless when dealing with cavarly. Battle deployment should be like this:
Barbarian Mercenaries(line 1)
Hastati(line 2, to kill cavalry when they stop in the spears of mercs)
Skirmishers and/or archers(line3, need protection,very weak!!!)
Cavalry(Equites and/or Barbarian cavalry, flank troops)
General(last line, only for use when situation is desperate)
If you have some Cretan Archers(although you can only recruit them in Greece, also you can find 3 units of them in Crete, bribe them!!!) they are very useful because they can do a lot of damage.
You can beat the Gauls very easily by having some superior troops like Principes. But if you have Preatorian cohorts, you can kill them immediately.![]()
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