Special Units

[demolition]

whats your fav special unit
mine is arcani

[demolition]

[lars573]

I like Velite gladiators, chanting units, Hounds of Cullain, RTW German berserkers, Arcani/Pravetorenes are great too.

[demolition]

Pravetorenes

[demolition]

what are they

[demolition]

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[lars573]

Can you not get the edit button to click? If you can't hold you cursor over edit right click and pick open link. I have to do this because for some reason I can't click to open it.

Any how, Pravetorenes are from BI's Arcani but have sword/shield and a kick ass hooded cloak. They are a WRE unit.

[Dutch_guy]

Praevatores are a slightly bigger unit of arcani, and look better too imh.

But they are indeed the counter part of the Arcani seen in 1,2

[demolition]

ok 1. what is WRE
2. what u mean 1,2
3. does BI mean bruti

[Silver Rusher]

1. Western Roman Empire, a BI faction (see 3)
2. The previous RTW patch.
3. BI stands for Barbarian Invasion, the expansion pack for Rome.

[demolition]

can you get patches for rtw non expansion on this web site

[Lord Winter]

can you get patches for rtw non expansion on this web site

Down load 1.3 here

[BlackThug]

Mine is Gallic Warband. 60 men on default unit sizes!! The horde arrives 4 centuries early my friend! OMG!!!

[Kekvit Irae]

Hounds of Culann, tear through any infantry unit like it was butter.
Sassinad Immortals, tear through any unit like it was butter, plus you get a free general

[Rilder]

Velite gladiators roxors my soxxors

taking on 400 enemy alone without taking a loss, being my main wall stormers i luv'em

[djashburnmn]

i love lombard berserkers. lol

[Trithemius]

Clibanarii Immortals for me. What don't they do.

Other than go fast...

[Kaldhore]

Well I just had 2 units of Wardogs see off 9 stacks of Britania Warbands and Swordsmen :P

Excellent v lightly armoured enemies like Warbands - When assaulting Gaul. Germania, Britannia - never waste good soldiers. These Wardog Breeders get the numbers up fast again without the need to retrain. So cost effective and saves population use for peasant Garrisons...just use 1 inf unit for sieging, have some cav backup (General so no need to retrain again)...actually they are better at seiges as they dont just chase down 1 enemy - they got to the centre of town and kill all :P

[WhiteProphecy]

i like iberian infantry, but i dont think they considered special


my favorite is the SPARTAN but i think TotalWar should have made them look cooler, i mean come on, where are the tight ass spartan helmets!!!! lol

[demolition]

how do u get the arcani or prav*** in bi

[demolition]

hello, does anyone know

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I think you need to be the WRE and have a 3rd or 4th tier barracks toi get praves in BI, you should be able to get Arcani in the usual way.

[Slug For A Butt]

I haven't played a Roman faction in BI yet, well not for long anyways. But... can you still get Arcani? They kind of blew monkey chunks apart from the fear factor. If I remember right, they weren't armour piercing and as the game went on, became more and more obsolete.
If they exist in BI I guess they are even more obsolete even earlier.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

You can get Praventori (sp?) as the WRE, I have an Urban Barracks as the ERE and can't get them so I think you can only get them as the WRE. They are basically Arcani but with a sword and shield.

[Kaldhore]

Its easy to see what units an army is capable of producing
Just go to custom battle and select all the factions you want to view - bearing in mind that the green units are mercs and not producable in campaign mode

[edyzmedieval]

Clibinarii Immortals, Hounds of Culann, and maybe some Armoured War Elephants....

[Slug For A Butt]

Clib immortals really rock! I haven't found yet a unit as versatile and devastating. They can take out a half stack army on their own and seem to get exp points easily.