Cities full of skirmishers

[Djurre]

Im playing rome, and the rebel cities are all full of skirmishers.

what do i do to keep these cheap bastards from making allot of casualties on my expensive armies. do i field cheap troops too? roarii or something?

[JeffBag]

Actually, there isn't much you can do, since no matter what, you'll take horrendous casualties if you try to storm his walls, and lesser troops would simply be massacred even before they set up their ladders. What you can try is to bypass his defenses instead; after clicking start battle, run your entire force to another side of his walls, which should be undefended, and then attack.

[Musopticon?]

*fondly remember conquering Crimea from three peltastai stacks in 0.74*

And I was supposed to be liberating the Greek inhabitans from barbarian rule. Heh, I think the greeks there were pretty happy to fight as heavy skirmishers, there was like four units of scythians only among the three armies and everything else was greek peltasts.

[Simmons]

Peltast armys suck but are easy to beat if you can cox them out of their city which isnt that hard once they have filled the city to overflowing just park yourself next to it and wait for them to come to you.

[CountArach]

I wait for the enemy to sally. you can probably kill off about half the army if you are willing to wait.

Afte rthey sally, play historical Roman. Place several units of Hastati ahead of your better troops, and let them just die. After the enemy have used up their javelins, just wait for them to advance to your better soldiers, who should be on fire at will, and will be able to hit the enemy with their own javelins. Once combat is forced, you should have no problem.

Also remember that Equites should stay behind the enemy army to catch them in the rout, before launching one massive rear charge, thus clenching the battle.

[iberus_generalis]

i like to sit and wait for them to come out of the city...then, as the romani, i send my ranged units, to the front, while they are still exiting the citiy, and slaughter them at the choke point...than i send in every infantary in, and wipe out the rest...i don't care about historical armies...hastatis, and principes, it's all the same for me....cannon fodder...if some of them survive...the better....