Quote Originally Posted by lars573
Easy line up three cohorts to soak them up. Heavy chariots are nothing but charge once that's over they are easy to deal with.
Hmm, at the time I conquered egypt with the scipii I was still pre-marius. I had to soak em up with hastati. That's harder I guess. The charge indeed stopped somewhere down into my units, but soon they started swirlin' round INSIDE my units, IF they didn't rout allready. You know, the thing that happens when the unit you charge with cavalry hasn't got enough 'body' to effectively 'hold' the horses/chariots. I allways took one or two merc hoplites along, before I got triarii. And still got whacked a few times in the middle of libya. Best opposition I ever had in RTW. except maybe the battle at Cordoba Hill against the Iberians. Still don't know what hit me there..

Oh yah, mind you, it was both on 'very hard'.