the fighting is not over!

[The Stranger]

How POSSIBLY can you win so easily?
Aren't yoy guys making this up?
I can barely win 2:1 odds!

no we arent. i'm playing the rebels. my best unit is a hoplite, and still i beat up armies with cats and companions. its just tactics and some guts to charge on the right moment. i was outnubered 5 to 2 and i won killing 2000 of the 2300 men and lost 200 out of 2000 men. my army were mainly iberian infantry while i had to face veteran greek hoplites

[CMcMahon]

did he said that

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49306

Tell us who you are playing as and what Factions you have destoryed. Also tell about how good you are at the game RTW. Use a scale of 1 thru 10 to rate how good you are at RTW. I am just cerious. I will tell you mine:
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I am playing Greeks and i have destoryed Julii, Brutti, Scipii, SPQR and Macedonia. I rated myself as a 9

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I never thought I'd say this to a person playing RTW, but..........use complex tactics. I mean, simple. From what you've shown, maybe your brain can process simple plans better.......

[HarunTaiwan]

He's only 14. Give him a break.

And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)

Defense is much easier.

[antisocialmunky]

2 to 1 in MTW was something(unless it was a Spanish Javelin spam army) not so much in RTW it seems.

[The Stranger]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49306

hmm. oke but didn't he mant in that campaign. i mean if also rate myself as a 9 maybe 9.5, but i'm a veteran in MTW and in RTW. i can kick sum but, with no offense clayton but did you seriously meant that your overall stats are a nine or only in that campaign. i don't want to say youre a noob, but from the problems you have i can tell that a 9 is a bit tooooo high

[The Stranger]

He's only 14. Give him a break.

And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)

Defense is much easier.

i'm too, yeah lets do that. me neither. and hell yeah it is

[Viking]

How POSSIBLY can you win so easily?
Aren't yoy guys making this up?
I can barely win 2:1 odds!

How long have you played the game? It shouldn`t be difficult to win a battle with 2:1 odds, although there are rare exceptions.

He's only 14. Give him a break.

I take that as an offense! j/k

[Franconicus]

A good gerneral is rarely outnumbered.

[KSEG]

He's only 14. Give him a break.

And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)

Defense is much easier.

How dare you!!
I'm 16!

[gardibolt]

I was getting massacred until I figured out that Hastati are not set at 'fire at will' and have to be told manually to do that. For some reason that makes an enormous difference. Previously I would lose outnumbering the other side 2:1, and now I'm beating the computer 1:3. Perhaps the pilum is overpowered?

[antisocialmunky]

A good gerneral is rarely outnumbered.

That's not really true... Alexander fought armies many times his size. Miltides repelled the Persians at Marathon and then marched back to Athens to repel the Persian Fleet. Hannibal at Cannae won a battle outnumbered 2 to 1 by enveloping the superior Roman force.

More modern examples:

Robert E. Lee even divided his forces in the face of superior numbers.
There were the American invasions of Iraq.

Outnumbering an opponent causes alot of a problems too. Only so many troops can be fighting at a certain time. That's why envloping works. A smaller organized force engages an equal amount of enemies at any given time at the perimeter of the enemy mass, thus everyone at the center are jsut standing there doing nothing.

There're alot of factors influencing battle, numbers isn't everything.

[The Stranger]

I was getting massacred until I figured out that Hastati are not set at 'fire at will' and have to be told manually to do that. For some reason that makes an enormous difference. Previously I would lose outnumbering the other side 2:1, and now I'm beating the computer 1:3. Perhaps the pilum is overpowered?

for some reason it makes a difference he says. what a joker. and no the pilum isnt really overpowered it is just powerful. cuz it has armour piercing it only counts half the armour rating

[gardibolt]

Why aren't the Hastati set at Fire at Will in the first place? They're pretty useless without the pila.

[The Stranger]

cuz they are infantry and not skirmishers. when attacking fire at will mode is annyoing.

[Garvanko]

Maybe you should make sure you got 3:1 odds?

[Zakor]

Why do you guys keep feeding the troll?

[Mongoose]

Who? KSEG? He's slightly annoying but not trolling.

Though Catiline might say other wise....

1) Trolling, flaming and baiting are verboten anywhere on .org. Some of the behaviour in here recently would shame the backroom - where one would expect a more rowdy atmosphere. All such behaviour will cease. If you cannot post in this forum on a subject directly pertaining to a game, then do not post. If you feel a question can only be answered by some iteration of 'Dude you're sh*t' then keep your opinion to yourself.

[antisocialmunky]

cuz they are infantry and not skirmishers. when attacking fire at will mode is annyoing.

Turn it off then, Javelins own anything.

[The Stranger]

well why not turn it on. i don't see the difference.