Unmatched Virility of the Macedonians

**Ludens** · 07-15-2007, 16:29

Heh, yesterday, in my KH campaign, I noticed an unescorted Epeirote FM stop to participate in the Olympics, while he was rebel-held, Roman-invested Venetia. I am not even sure what he was doing there in the first place: presumably he's trying to reach Tarentum from Epidamnos, but the A.I. isn't aware of the enemy (Roman) territories in between.

I am just wondering: shouldn't being in enemy territory prevent generals from taking part in the Olympics?

**Redmeth** · 07-15-2007, 16:59

AFAIK they had to be in a city to participate...

**Ravenic** · 07-15-2007, 17:18

Originally Posted by Muso

Also, about the Agrianioi, are they as effective as people give them credit for?

In all honesty, no. They're pretty brittle for being so 'elite', but I still use them because of their wonderful assault capabilities. I loathe assaulting cities with phalanx troops, due to the retarded-monkey pathfinding, so I generally have three to five units of "assault" troops that will storm the city under cover from the various "Psiloi" units, and then the phalanx only comes in as a last resort.

**Sakkura** · 07-15-2007, 18:11

Originally Posted by Ravenic

In all honesty, no. They're pretty brittle for being so 'elite', but I still use them because of their wonderful assault capabilities. I loathe assaulting cities with phalanx troops, due to the retarded-monkey pathfinding, so I generally have three to five units of "assault" troops that will storm the city under cover from the various "Psiloi" units, and then the phalanx only comes in as a last resort.

They are fine. They aren't really elite (that would be pheraspidai) but just excellent anti-armor troops. Don't use them against troops with low armor if you can avoid it.