mercenary army

[The Stranger]

You have no idea how much that made me laugh! Almost like the catch phrases from the TV shows!

Anyhow, the whole purpose of the cheat is just to have the ability for my Roman factions to have some Phalax and Elephant units, seeing that they can't train them themselves. However, because of the nagging fact that you need a general to hire them, I sometimes simply mod the buildings of the factions and make them able to train the said units themselves. I've noted that the Romans don't seem to have a light cavalry, so I gave them the Arab cavalry to train at one time.

Also, when I was playing as Macedon, I made it possible for them to train Bastarne (misspelt) units. I did this because they had no other infantry unit than phalaxes and I generally don't like phalaxes a lot other than pinning troops and... well... that's it! :P

Anyway, my cheating also means that it is practically impossible for my enemies to have much of a fighting chance as I blitz through the world... fighting nutured enemies who are struggling to pay off a -999999999 debt!

I really AM a bastard Cheater! ~:JOKER: :CLOWN: :WISEGUY:

while everyone is wining that the ai is to weak and the game is to easy....this guy makes it even worse. i dont see the fun here.

[Mr Frost]

I typically build all Mercenary armies in Asia Minor untill I'm well established enough to produce advanced units there .
The generally consist of a line of Mercenary Hopolites with a Barbarian Infantry unit on each flank , some Mercenary Peltasts {good roadblocks , good firepower to disrupt a charge and can chase routers} , a few Barbarian Cavalry and plenty of Cretan Archers and Rhodian Slingers {as many as four units of each ... firepower !} . Sometimes I'll add a couple of Thracians , but they aren't really neccessary . Such an army can handle any other army quite well if sensibly used .

On the Steppes , if not playing as Scythia/Samartia or Pathians , I'll build all Mercenary armies of Sythian Horse Archers and Samatian Lancers which can beat any army sensless except an advanced Scythian or Pathian army ofcourse , which they can still handle given the A.I.s' limitation verses a human foe .

I imagine that an Army built from the best Mercenaries accross the map {Hoplite line + Cretan + Rhodian/Baleric +Illyrian + Numidian Cavalry + Scythian + Samartian + Bastarnae + Mercenary Elephants} would be very effective , but not worth the effort unless building ones population was absolutely imperative at the time and one had the naval assets and spare Family to do it {and nothing better to do with said assets , though Numidian Cavalry is often worth the effort :)} .

[The Hun]

Mercenaries featured much in my Scythia campaign. My faction leader ( the one who eventually was Supreme ruler ) when he was heir and starting his career as a general had 9 units of mercenaries. They served him well.

[bubbanator]

In my recent Brutii campaign, the British were getting out of hand. They were expanding and were on my doorstep, they had taken out what was left of Gaul, and all of Germainia. I didn't really want to build up armies and beat them back so I decided to plunder their lightly defended homeland. I took a young general that had just come of age. A 16 year old with 3 stars to start out with. I built up a fleet for him and sent him around collecting mercs. I stopped by sparta, crete, Carthage, and made several stops along the Gallic coast. When I finally arrived in Brittian, I had a full stack of mercs. I sacked Londinum and the other cities in the mainland. I exterminated them and destroyed every building that I could, trained one unit of whatever I could recruit their (Roman Cavalry or Early Legionary Cohorts ususaly) and then moved on. I had brought along a diplomat and I bribed the one general that was walking around. 4 stars but more importantly, he could hire me more mercs. So now I have a full stack and a half stack army. I put them on the boats and send them to pilliage Sambrovia and the surrounding settlements. I let all of them rebel. Some went back to British control, some didn't. But it didn't matter, all of their buildings had been leveled and the population was decimated. Their economy was in shambles and they could no longer support the many full stack armies that they had. They also had no ports to rebuild their once powerful navy. Their expansion stopped and I had accomplished my goal. I could now resume my military opperations without interuption in all areas of the world. All this thanks to my mercenary army.

[Mahrabals apprentice]

I had brought along a diplomat and I bribed the one general that was walking around. 4 stars but more importantly, he could hire me more mercs. So now I have a full stack and a half stack army. .

I may be stating the obvious but you could have just taken your own general out of his merc stack and start a new one. You can get as many stacks as you want as long as you have 1 FM, you don't need 1 per stack

[bubbanator]

I may be stating the obvious but you could have just taken your own general out of his merc stack and start a new one. You can get as many stacks as you want as long as you have 1 FM, you don't need 1 per stack

You misunderstand. I sent my newly aquired general to go raid different settlements. I needed him to hire more mercs on the way which is the whole reason I bought him.