Worst EB Unit?

**konny** · 10-04-2007, 09:39

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Hoplite Haploi is one of the best milita units in the game IMO. They are tough if engaged head on.

....by other militias or cavalry. Anything else will have no problems with them. They are for sure among the best militias in the game but nothing to make your main line of - what the AI loves to do.

**Parkev** · 10-06-2007, 07:09

Having only so far played as the Casse, I would have to say Lugoae are the simply useless without any javelins. Even if they only had two or one, they could use superior numbers to offset the result of being used as pincushions. I'd pay extra, just so they were usuable in battles with a few javelins.

**Anthony** · 10-06-2007, 13:40

As far as cheap levies go, I really like Lugoae, they do pretty well for me.

**blank** · 10-06-2007, 13:45

Originally Posted by Anthony

As far as cheap levies go, I really like Lugoae, they do pretty well for me.

true, i beat an enemy force of phalanxes, slingers, hoplites, thureophoroi, skirmishers and a general (about 8-9 units total) with 5 units of Lugoae when rallying out

**Rodion Romanovich** · 10-06-2007, 20:07

Wow! What difficulty was that, and how did you do it?

**Parkev** · 10-07-2007, 05:47

I agree that Lugoae are decent enough for what they are intended to do, but I'd really like to see them with some javelins. Generic Celtic warfare seems to be, walk up, javelin some people, get javelined, charge and after that it gets interesting. But Lugoae just stand there and cop it, it would be nice to be able to use them as light reserves that can flank and get some guys in the back before charging. It seems perfectly plausible that they could get some, javelin is essentially just a spear and I'm sure they could get their hands on a few more than one. Just my opinion, I guess.