Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa
If you have a good economy, fighting Gaesatae isn't a problem. I defeated a 1 full stack Adeui army composed of regular troops + another 1/2 stack of Gaesatae with 1 full stack of Polybian Hastatis, Principes, and Triari and another 1 full stack of entirely Camillan era Triaris (Triari-hoplite FTW!).

The Romans are the only one who can beat them because of the AP pila, even slingers do not own them so fast like simple Hastati do. It is nevertheless important that you outnumber those people: in a perfect fight, and I had this twice, three units of Hastati will rout one unit of Gaesatae without even drawing swords, by the salvos of the 960 AP javelins.

My Sweboz didn't throw pila but crappy sticks, slingers are not to be have and about archers the Gaesatae simply laugh, so I had to sent two FM against every unit of them while the rest of the army had to keep the other Gaesatae in check and fight down who ever else is there. That works fine up to three units of Nakeds, but with 6 it's going to be a close run thing, and 10 of them will certainly be a crushing defeat with half of the family tree dead.