Quote Originally Posted by jebes
Hmm, will the recruitment costs and upkeep be reduced as well? I am one of the few people that think they are perfectly balanced and people who cry about fighting them, should go recruit some.
I disagree. I just had my first battle fighting them. After first chewing through a unit of peltasts, I send a second one (with 4 chevrons) to pin it so I had time to bring my 3 units of thessalian hippeis (!) to the scene. I repeatedly charged those damn nudists with all three, and each time they would kill only 2-3 men or so. the peltasts routed. So did 2 of my thessalian hippeis. Eventually I pinned the gestaete (29 men at this point, and still at impetuous morale!), let it tire out a bit and charged into their bare asses with my remaining thessalian hippeis. Finally they routed.
Net result: I lost over 80 Thessalian horses and 120 peltasts on these guys. I'm playing on hard difficulty and the gestaete were at valour 2, but still that's ridiculous (none of my units were greens either)