Romano-Celtic armies

[SwebozGaztiz]

hey whats up people, its me posting again haaha this time i have a question thats been going around my head for a while, everytime you play a faction that is near the romanoi, sooner or later you engage in a endless war with them, i really hate the romanoi fighting style hahahah, what do you think about the romano-celtic armies??i always encounter huge stacks of romanoi armies filled with luggoae, sotaroas, luce urepos, and the helleno-celtic guys, i mean those armies are cheap to ensemble and can be a pain in the ass, is that scripted?i know you always rely on mercenaries but i think thats too much, in fact you find a lot of stacks with only, hastati, rorarii, etc. but most of the time is an endless fight with the romano celtic armies, has someone had the same kind of battles??

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Some of it is mercs, but a lot of it might very well be roman allied provinces sending their own types of troops into the field against you, or maybe alongside some units of their roman allies, possibly even with a roman "advisor" leading the way. You'd encounter romano-greek armies if the Romans could jump to Epeiros easily, and romano-iberian armies if you encountered them first in Iberia, but cisalpine gaul and the danube regions are easier to take, the romans tend to focus there first.

[Zim]

I get pretty irritated fighting any faction that's expanded to that area north and a little east of Italy. Seems I end up fighting hordes and hordes of Lugoae. I've seen both Rome and Epirus do it.

I find the closer you get to their homeland provinces, the tougher and better their armies get. Invading Italy, I fought a lot of triarii and Hastati.

[The Celt]

Actually, since it's Romans fielding Celts, wouldn't it be Celto-Roman?(Or Celto-Latin?)

But yeah I agree the Romans can be such bastards with those stacks they seem to throw at you again and again. I actually decided to restart my Arverni campaign because those Romans were chewing up my armies faster than the Carthaginians were. And yes, they really like hiring mercs like those Celts you've been running into. Expect for me since I'm playing a Celtic faction I was able to drive them out of N.Italy so instead I'm facing stacks of Greeks and Samnites.(Along with those blasted Triarii! )

[Zim]

Actually, since it's Romans fielding Celts, wouldn't it be Celto-Roman?(Or Celto-Latin?)

But yeah I agree the Romans can be such bastards with those stacks they seem to throw at you again and again. I actually decided to restart my Arverni campaign because those Romans were chewing up my armies faster than the Carthaginians were. And yes, they really like hiring mercs like those Celts you've been running into. Expect for me since I'm playing a Celtic faction I was able to drive them out of N.Italy so instead I'm facing stacks of Greeks and Samnites.(Along with those blasted Triarii! )

*shudder* I had to deal with Triarrii and Samnites in my Aedui campaign. Facing heavy infantry is tough when you're playing prereform Celts and lack the money for Gesetae.

[The Celt]

*shudder* I had to deal with Triarrii and Samnites in my Aedui campaign. Facing heavy infantry is tough when you're playing prereform Celts and lack the money for Gesetae.

Preach it brother! The trick is to usually come with as many Luce Epos as you can afford, they are the key to breaking the Triariis' strength. The good thing about the Samnites is that their easy to rout if you can get them isolated from the rest of the army.

[Enguerrand de Sarnéac]

Preach it brother! The trick is to usually come with as many Luce Epos as you can afford, they are the key to breaking the Triariis' strength. The good thing about the Samnites is that their easy to rout if you can get them isolated from the rest of the army.

a lot of Sphendonetai along with one cavalry unit that moves behind their lines or next to it will do too. Or splitting your Sphendonetai in two groupes, as long as you can shoot the enemy in it's flanks

[NeoSpartan]

Well in VH/M is was not too hard to beat the Romans WITHOUT gaestrae. However, a couple of Misophoroi Hoplitai (sp, the phalanx hoplite mercs) where very usefull. I was only able to field 2 units of cavalry including the General. Then it was just the general.

OH for Celtic-Roman armies. I am making those. In Italy you can recruit Roarii, Hestatii and Equites!! Exept in a few other provinces in central Italy where u can only recruit Roarii (BTW wtf is up with that?).

[Mi Fhein]

when i was playing as KH i invaded rome from the south and i drove them all the way up to the baltic. then they came back nearly every turn with full armies of lougue, it was a real pain. later i started the campaign again and invaded them from the north and crushed them all the way to southern italy.

[Domitius Ulpianus]

Yeah, Im starting to experience this myself in my KH campaign. I decided to start from the south because I have not leiminated the Epirotes completely...I took all their good cities and left them as a buffer between me and the Getai. So I started from I have already taken everything up to Roma and I "burned" Arretium to the ground....but they keep coming like an angry mob...

I am pondering if I should just keep a strong Garrison in Roma and let them come to me or keep going north...I don't feel like sharing borders with any of the Gauls and start fighting the merry naked crazy dudes. I am already fighting the Seleukids, the remains of Epiros and Rome and I will have to cross swords with Carthage to win the game...so I have enough on my plate....considering Pontos is looking at me suspiciously in spite of the tribute I am giving them.