CyanCentaur: well, most of the points you take up are the the reasons why I don't really thing R:TW is as good as it could be. Add paragraph 21: it takes 6 months for an army to perform a march that historical armies pulled off in a week!
Oh, and Lars573: you will find that people respect you more if you aren't acting like some kind of fourth-grade schoolyard bully. It's true.
EDIT: and yes, a full stack of light cavalry beats everything. Actually, my last Carthagian campaign was just like the one described: just stack after stack of round shield cavalry, eating everything thrown at them. At this period, most factions had a very limited supply of horses, and that's one of the reasons why the idea of full stacks of cavalry doesn't make sense. To say that "that's a dumb idea, never mention it again" only proves a point against you, especially since it is very far from a dumb idea.
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