Velite & Mirmillo Gladiator

[Coldfish]

I`m playing Julii....and i have imperial palaces,urban barracks,and colisseums too....why can`t I train velite gladiators or mirmillo gladiators ??...only samnite gladiators i can.

thanks

[professorspatula]

Each Roman faction gets 1 type of Gladiator to build and that's your lot matey. But forget those overpaid slaves - stick with peasants!

[Coldfish]

thanks ....i thought i could train all 3 of them

[Muska Burnt]

i dont recruit the any gladiators i just stick with urban cohort

[pezhetairoi]

But in the early stages of the game, before Marians, gladiators are yumyum.

[Productivity]

i dont recruit the any gladiators i just stick with urban cohort

Gladiators are useful, they (along iwth Arcani) are the only two hit point units that the romans can train. 2 hit point units are extrememly useful under some circumstances.

[player1]

Like battles on stone walls...


They are also resistant of cavalry charge due to 2HP.

[Dutch_guy]

And velite glads have that really good bonus against ele's and chariots.

[Garvanko]

You'll never need Gladiators if you have Urban Cohorts.

[Dutch_guy]

well you can get velite and samnite glads before you can get urbans - velite only need an arena and samnites with an amphitheater , so if you like gladiators you can use them far before you can built urbans, only the mirmillo glads are really overshadowed by the urbans , since you can only get mirmillo's once you built a colosseum.

I agree though I like urbans better and use them more ( well not anymore with RTR ) glads make a welcome edition to any army.

[Productivity]

You'll never need Gladiators if you have Urban Cohorts.

Didn't we just cover this? I'll accept this when you show me the Urban Cohort that has two hit points...

[Lancome]

Like some dude above me said, Glads are very good when attacking walls. Well, except for the Velite Glads They are just useful for their spears.

[master of the puppets]

the only time i use gladiators is in mass. if i don't have any urbans but 4 cities with colleseums then i built 4 gladiators. and in battle i mass them all in a solid block and charge them twards the most steadfast enemies, the tear threw um really well.

[Mahrabals apprentice]

I have ever bothered using glads in the game, i prefer my legions. I have only used them in custom battles where they are a decent flanking force.

Marmillo from behind : )

If i ever played as brutii i would used velite though, i just can't deal with chariots and they might be the answer i was looking for

[Nelson]

I build a gladiator unit in big cities just because they were there historically. They can defend the city and put down rebels. I seldom campaign with them but they do add color.

[Come Together]

Gladiator's also seem to be great cushions to ranged attacks. Their high armor and 2 hp make them rather good at survival, and all archers seem to target them. Not to mention their huge moral always seems to keep them in the battle.

[Mahrabals apprentice]

that seems like a waste of good gladiators to me

[Lancome]

that seems like a waste of good gladiators to me

You can always make New glad's from Captures soldiers.

[pezhetairoi]

...you can? Or was that a joke :-P

Anyway. Gladiators are good in cities because of their loose order, their 2 HP and their awesome fighting skills. (We're talking pre-Marian here.) They're beyond anything the Hastati or Principes can give you. I always take along a unit or two of gladiators of whatever Roman faction I am, and I use them liberally.

[antisocialmunky]

I wonder how they do against other 2HP units like Bull Warriors and Spartans, not too well I would imagine.

[xemitg]

I wonder how they do against other 2HP units like Bull Warriors and Spartans, not too well I would imagine.

Don't underestimate gladiators.

[Marquis of Roland]

If I remember correctly, someone said that if you can bribe another Roman factions gladiators to your side and they won't disband.

[bubbanator]

I find gladiators very useful in taking any city.

In a custom battle with wooden walls:

break the wall however you please, send in one group of fully upgraded gladiators followed by 2 groups of fully upgraded urban cohorts, followed by most of your other ground troops. Through another hole in the wall, you send in your cavalry and break your enemy.

I must leave for the next week so I will finish my thoughts later...