Gaesatae overpowered?

[JeffSteel]

I fought the Galatikoi Tindanotae, the Galatian version of the nude, mad drugged up barbarians with mostly slinger armies. The key is in flanking. Even against phalangites the armor bonuses from the front are simply overpowering. You need height or mobility. Easiest way to kill elite units with slingers is to leave one or two firing at them, make sure to disable skirmish mode. Then disable skirmish mode from the rest and have them flank on both sides. The elites will charge those units with disabled skirmish modes. Once your flanking slingers are on both sides and to the back of the charging elites, reactivate skirmish mode for your bait and watch the crossfire oblitirate the enemy. Works for Argyraspidai, Thorakitai Argyraspidai, Galatikoi Tindanotae, Hypaspistai, Hetaroi, Hellenikon Katapractoi etc. etc.

edit. Forgot to mention. Allways focus your fire on a single enemy unit. Minimum of four slingers per enemy unit, not counting whoever you got as bait. The Celtic Slingers are even better than the eastern ones due to their freakishly long range and almost inexhaustable supply of ammo.

Very true, even elite units will just melt away under flanking fire from slingers with decent experiance. My three units of triple silver cheveron slingers will kill 10-20 men per volley in elite units such as Carthiginian Elite African Infantry and Sacred band, and even those Galatian wild men after getting rid of their extra HP. They will also decimate ANY calvary short of cataphracts, and hurt cataphracts fairly well, so make sure to build up their experiance (which should be easy considering how many they can kill). No unit is invincible, its simply a matter of knowing their weaknesses and exploiting them.

(By the way, I'm assuming that anyone can recruit those Galatian Wild Men if they build a type 4 government in Ankyra and leveling up the regional barracks enough. Is this assumption correct?)