Quote Originally Posted by Bullethead
Attacking ERE stacks will be 2/3 to 7/8 full and will contain about 1/2 to 2/3 infantry, most of the rest foot archers, and 1 or 2 cav or hippo-toxi units. In the 1st wave, the infantry will mostly be limitanei, which your rather shaky forces can deal with in the conventional bridge-slaughter manner. The limitanei take serious losses from your arrows and usually break as soon as they reach your waiting spears. Then you can chase them back across with your cav and pretty much kill every ERE soldier.
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I find the ERE even easier, as they tend to bulk up their crappy 1st wave armies with peasants, just shoot them with your archers/nomad cav and they should run by the time they smell your spears coming,thus allowing you to concentrate your entire army on the few decent units they have left.