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    Involuntary Gaesatae Member The Celtic Viking's Avatar
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    Default Re: Getting attached to units.

    Of course I get attached to units! Since I started with EB, I always have. In my Sweboz campaign I have a unit of Skandza-Swaiut that has saved my general more than once, and given a very good account of themselves. As they're not easily retrained, that just further increases their value for me on the battlefield and I would not risk them unless I had to. Damn fine lads they are.

    In my Arverni campaign I instead have a unit of well experienced Botroas that I just won't let die. They were the first (melee) unit of mine to get a silver chevron, and were usually the ones to first enter a settlement in a siege before I got access to gaesatae. Currently they're down in Iberia fighting the Lusotannan and Carthage (who has sent several 3/4-full stack naval invasions against me, btw) and honestly, I've become too scared to lose them to use them (on my own initiative) much. I usually put them in the second row to flank or take over when the enemy tires down.

    I also have an equally experienced unit of gaeroas in the same army. That one is usually guarding my right flank, doing a darn good job at it too. More than one enemy general has fallen to their spears - they even killed the roman leader before I took Rome and made the Romani my protectorate.

    Other than that I can get a real love for my generals. It's a very sad day for me when they die.
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    This has always been one of the greatest aspects of the Total War series

    It was easier to keep tabs on those favourite units back in Shogun, the unit officers were named in the battle summary & as long as he didn't die, would carry across battles.

    One of the saddest things is when an Elite army gets split to firm up green armies & you wind up expending the elite to save the rest from obliteration
    maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoom
    This has always been one of the greatest aspects of the Total War series

    It was easier to keep tabs on those favourite units back in Shogun, the unit officers were named in the battle summary & as long as he didn't die, would carry across battles.

    One of the saddest things is when an Elite army gets split to firm up green armies & you wind up expending the elite to save the rest from obliteration
    Yes, I totally agree. It is one of the worst aspects of the game to have a really badass unit "go down" in rank after they have saved you lots and lots of times.

    My golden chevs Baktrian hippotoxotai are examples of that. Dunno why, but those buggers never failed me even when slaughtered down to 5 or so. Of course when I re-inforced them, they are 3 bronze chevs, but at least they are alive.

    Naming them, while super cool could often lead to "fuzzy wuzzies of Kophen", not a a pretty sight at the battlefield.


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    LOL Fuzzy wuzzies of Kophen! Pure gold.

    When I played as Epirus, I would zoom in on my Elite Chaonion Agematas and just stare and watch as they did battle.. neglecting the rest of the army which got trashed... fortunately 3 of these units could tear up anything.. lol its bad

    Now that I got Polybian reforms for Rome, I am building a whole lot of Neitos to take up the brunt of the fighting in Gaul while I stare at my Principes.. I am so picky when I have elite units.. I hate, HAATE seeing them die

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    Default Re: Getting attached to units.

    Ehehe, me too, I often have the levies with considerable amounts of experience, since I always think thrice before sending the sexiest to battle. Go figure.

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    Default Re: Getting attached to units.

    I can just see the grizzled, hard-bitten veteran militiamen giving the elité "glory boys who never dun anything for real" a lot of sour looks and rude nicknames...
    "Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."

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    I had that with the Koinon. In Sparta you get a unit of Spartiates Hoplitai. I fought many battles against the Macedons and Epirotes with them, they were almost always the first to enter a city, the ones who could hold the line the longest, etc... I didn't dream of losing them. They only suffered minimal losses.

    But then in a battle against some descendant of Pyrrhus and an allied army of his, I lost track of them, they were chasing some slingers uphill and I failed to notice they came to close to the Epirotes' second army. Their general charged them (he had more men than my poor spartans). Their numbers started dropping fast. I didn't want to lose them, so I send two units of Thessalian cavalery almost a quarter of the map away to them to help, the heavy cavalery was almost exhausted when reaching them, but luckily so was the general. They managed to slauger the Epirote's second army and save 10 Spartans. No Thermopylae!
    NOw I've send those 10 home to act as bodyguards for the king.

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    Read the Wastelands and you will get very attached to certain units!! It's over at the RTR forums, but they are down at the moment it seems. It's an EB AAR, and it has characters appear over and over. Hope that thing is never lost! New generations of EB players and fans should take a look at it now too. Any chance of getting it hosted over here too (even if it is over now)?

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    Default Re: Getting attached to units.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dan_Grr
    Ehehe, me too, I often have the levies with considerable amounts of experience, since I always think thrice before sending the sexiest to battle. Go figure.
    odd, i always send my elite troops in early to either whack the enemy general or cut a hole into their line where i could get an advantage
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