Carrhae possible or not ?

[kungfuserge]

Hi; the one where you play Roman in square surrounded by mounted archers and charged at the same time by 4 units of Cataphalcs in the middle of the Dunes. Roman starts in "turtle formation"
you have 7 units of legonnaries and 2 units of cavalry
I personally see no issue to this one (if you brake the turtle formation the charge of cataphalcs is so devastating that it root the units)
(if you stay in formation , you can't move)
The best result I have is retiring on the hill behind...and I got smash ; but not as quick
I play on very hard; Sparta is very difficult but interesting and I can make it....Telamon is very Hard I win it twice (upon maybe 50 try); but this one doesn't leave any hope

[Afkazar]

so im assuming that this is a battle that you hafta go agaisnt the history books
THe battle a carrhae was a major loss for the romans because if they formed a testudo the cataphracts would charge.If you weren in testudo you would get shot.The parthians were using new compound bows which were strong enoguhe to penetrate roman shields and armor. Some soilders ended up with their shield nailed to there hands.With the parthian arrows were lethal the hot desert sun was also lethal.