Defeating Egypt, need info...

[DthaV]

I'm playing as Carthrage and I need to defeat egypt, there a royal pain in the ass. Does anybody have any stratagies for troops that I could use to defeat them?


What troops from Carthrage work well in defeating them on the battlefeild?

[Afkazar]

Umm Out phalanx them? I really dont know what your having a problem with.
Specific examples of what their giving you trouble with would help.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi DthaV,
With Carthage, against Egypt, the best option is to, as Afkazar has said, use better phalanxes than they do! You have one of the best phalanx units in the game at your disposal against them - The Sacred Band of the superior God Bal! You can gain access to them by constructing a Large Temple of Bal in a Large City (although you need to work your way up the tech-tree first). When you field them though, remember their constraints - avoid allowing the enemy to get behind them.

Also as the Carthaginians you have an exceptional cavalry unit - the Sacred Band Cavalry, at your disposal too. These can be gained from the large stables and are excellent protection and guard forces for your flanks and good attackers for the enemies' in most battles.

As a final note, for the purposes of chasing down routing foes, you should bring along some Lighter Cavalry forces such as Short Shield Cavalry. If you chase down your enemies post-battle then it results in fewer men to fight later.

Good luck with destroying Egypt, hope this helps, don't hesitate to contact me if you need any more assistance, cheers!

[guineawolf]

before you reach sacred band,i would suggest you to use longshield cavalry(good morale,140 denarii upkeep) to against egyptian chariots,and elephants to against their infantry.

you need to use 3 to 4 unit of elephants at once to charge into egyptian infantry line or they will break and run(coz elephant only 24 men compare to war elephants 72 men).and dun stop,keep charging until egyptian break and run...or your elephants will be overwhelm by egyptian phalanxe and axemen,
mix up with the back charge of long shield cavalry will be fine....mostly it is the chariots that most annoying,fix the egyptian phalanxe with your infantry,then charge it's back with long shield cavalry .....

you will need most cavalry base army with some infantry just to deal with egyptian phalanxe(fix them)
Choice of infantry will be libyan spearmen the best,coz it's high defence will sufficiently fit the purpose: to hold your enemy while long shield and elephants do the jobs,until you get poeni infantry and sacred band.Use guard mode when your libyan spearmen fix egyptian phalanxes,so they won't charge into spear wall and get killed,then they will hold long enough as you wish...(but libyan spearmen will be need some care of your general coz it have same status as roman auxilia but it only have 4 morale compare to auxilia 6 morale,without your general,egyptian chariot will rout them easily...)

enjoy your hunting!

told me if it works....

[Fate]

I've had a hell of a time trying to defeat Egypt as Armenia.
Around the area of Antioch i had my ten star faction heir (and that without takng into account, command against egyptians, supreme cavalry commander, attacker etc), i had a 3/4's stack hold off six, yes SIX egyptian full stacks, in one turn, then they beat me.
The obvious option for beating their chariots is missile cavalry (in my case, Horse archers) and in your case DthaV try using Numidian cavalry.

Those javelins do some lovely damge :)

[Stuperman]

Phalanxes and Archers. But as Carthage you don;t have archers, which makes your life much harder. Hire some Cretian Archers, use Flame arrow to 'run amok' the chariots, or the superios range of Cretians to take out the Chariots, and Sacred Band or Pioeni (sp) citizen infintry as phalanx. some Spanish mercs for flanking manouvers wouldn't be a bad Idea either, they are almost as good as Principes.

I'm not sure about cav vs Chariots, but HA's would probably be a good Idea too.