Army formations

[iberus_generalis]

a good disposition of your army is half way done to victory...so i spend quite a lot of time in deployment phase...i study the terrain, looking for ambush places, and hilly areas where i can put my archers/slingers protected by cavalary...
so i guess to me this is most important part of a battle...and normally i stick with my initial plan, only changing it when i get surprised by the existence of certain units like certain kinds of hoplites, and elefants and such...in that case i order my triarii forward in a 3 rank line, with my priniciple at the extremes of the formation, ready to strike the flanks of the enemy units, plus cavalry as in the macedonian formations to make the hammer and anvil thing...i know it is not much of a roman formation but i works most of the time...after the polibian and marian reforms then the triarii start to suck, so i tend to eliminate them from my armies...and make archer, principes/legionary armys, in manipular formations...

but i never underestimate an army so i always plan very carefully the disposition of my armies...and in sieges i never give my self the work of defending walls...its a loss of time, and men..so when i see that i cannot repulse them, i man my archers in walls, so they can kill as much enemies as possible and have some of them engage the invaders on the walls so that the rest of the archers have time to actually run away to the center of the city, and put my shock troops stratigically clogging the streets at specific narrow streets, and make my stand there, killing thousands with few casualties on my side...it might not be as loyal, or honest, but i don't care...my armies must always be at fighting readyness so keeping casualties low is always welcome, and i don't fancy loosing towns garriosoned with a medium/large amount of soldiers...but sometime it happens...=( lol


@lusitanni- És mesmo tuga man?n se veem mts de nós por ca..a kt temp andas nisto do Rome Total War?

(sorry ppl for who can't speak portuguese, im only gretting him, asking if he really is my countryman, and for how long he plays RTW...)