Are the Romans too Powerful?

[Noir]

Originally posted by Afkazar
In campaign mode id say it depends how you build your army to counter them.I play as selecuids. half sythed chariots and half cataphract combo has yet to lose me a single battle.I think I've taken on armies 3 times my size and crushed them. Romans should be rightly afraid of 3 things. Elephants,Berserkers and chariots. Romans have to semi prepare on how they plan to combat these threats.Phalanx armies have no trouble with these problems.

Agreed and in fact i implied this earlier when saying that "...Romans can beat the Seleukids and Egyptians with a little patience to shoot the troublesome elephants and chariots". This is made all the more easy in SP as the AI decides to skirmish many times with the chariots if they have bowmen or even worst send them directly front charge to spears.

Sometimes (usually when he has superior power) he goes for a full head on attack combining all units together that its his strong point (as he can control them simultaneously much better than the player) giving some hard times with the chariots.

Originally posted by Afkazar
In multiplayer me and an ally defeated some romans with all phalanx armies. He took spartans and i took sacred band inf.

Is this in a single battle or a series of battles? Is it against a particular set of players or against random unconnected players? How often those opponents have fought an all phalanx army? How experienced are they and how experienced are you? Just a few curiosity questions.

As far as i knew (never was interested in RTW (*edit*in RTW MP, i mean) and as things stand never will be) Roman armies were very much prefered generally in MP with the Seleukids being also a strong choice.

Many Thanks

Noir