Killathon.

[NodachiSam]

Nice.

But if you want a real killathon, set up a custom battle of a unit of Urban Cohort versus a village of Roman peasants - as many as your PC can handle. On defense mode, the Urban Cohorts are undefeatable and barely tire. One unit can probably kill 10,000 or more.

Wow that reminds me of the battle where Bautica /bootica(?) led a rebellion against the 10 000 hardened Romans with 80 000- 100 000 of what were essentially peasants. The Brits partied the night before assuming victories while the Romans held a good position and steamrolled. The death totals were something like 400 romans to 50 000 Brits. Even with Roman victory propoganda taken into account it is still pretty impressive.

[Ludens]

Wow that reminds me of the battle where Bautica /bootica(?) led a rebellion against the 10 000 hardened Romans with 80 000- 100 000 of what were essentially peasants. The Brits partied the night before assuming victories while the Romans held a good position and steamrolled. The death totals were something like 400 romans to 50 000 Brits. Even with Roman victory propoganda taken into account it is still pretty impressive.

You are refering to the battle of Watling Street, where Boudicca (later writers sometimes called her Boadicea) led somewhere between 100.000 or 200.000 Celts against 10.000 Romans legionaries led by Suetonius Paulinus. However, I think a large part of that 100.000 would have been non-combatants. On the other hand, those that did fight were not peasants. Briton-Celtic society was very warlike so many would have seen battle before and all would have had basic training in arms. There would have been plenty of well-equiped Briton nobles as well.

Just before the battle the IX Hispania legion (perhaps 5.000 men) was ambushed and annihilated, proving that the Briton army was more than a peasant-horde.

[fallen851]

Yep the Romans won the battle because they place themselves in a horseshoe-like clearing that was surrounded by the forest on three sides, and the Celts didn't enter the forest, going directly into the bottleneck against the Romans.

Once the Celt lines had broken, non-combatants watching in the rear hampered the retreat, hence the massive death toll. The Romans didn't spare anyone.

They also used chariots if I remember correctly, and I'm sure these weren't helping during the retreat.