a few more getai questions

[Hooahguy]

The army is the best place to look for this things
example:
you all know the falx as the traditional weapon of the dacians and its use in battle.
the dacians had all their weapons shaped like the falx(swords that is)
In the south east of modernday Romania they were in close range with the greek colonies on the coastline and they combined the warfare style of the greek with traditional dacians, they made up somekind of phalanx type of formations that was also good to fight as elite infantry.

The same goes to the north-west but there the relations were not with greeks but with celts.Good swordcrafters, the dacians swords falxes and spear tips were renowned in tha tperiod for beeing able to cut a man in half (the falx) with a single blow or pierce roman armour(this was written in the era of Traianus Dacicus and Decebalus(Diurpaneus) after the defeat of Cornelius Fuscus and his Legions in Dacia)

the Dacians archers were by no doubt the best archers in Europe,they developed the bow for centurys and were masters of it both on foot and on horseback.Romans found this out on their own skin when they followed an army of Getians into a forest and got ambushed from every side.
There is a phrase that exists even nowdays:
The forest is brother to the Romanian - because a lot of the victories were won there and when an army passed trough the land people found cover into the deep woods :)

The best tactic for dacians - the ambush
waves of arrows followed by a massive charge with fanatic warcryes were enough to frighten anyone.


cheers

yes, i know this very well. thats why im going to be increasing the attack of all falx-holding units by 3 (to show that those falxes were much more powerful than they are shown in the game, but im not sure if 3 is the correct number- 2 seems more correct), and increasing the attack of the elite skirmishers by 1, b/c of their huge swords), and the range of dacian bows by 2. makes sense to me....
in addition, i personally modded every unit (that i saw fit) to accurately represent their attack and defense numbers. ex: the triballi infantry have a huge shield, so their defense for shield is 4, the elite skirms are 3(may change it to 4- im not sure)
what do you people think of my decision?

[Gebeleisis]

personaly i like what you did, the morale could use a bumb also especially for the skirmishers

[Hooahguy]

seeing that the average morale is 14-15, i think ill bump then to that, if they arent at that already....

[paullus]

careful with all the bumps, the getic infantry are already some of the best in the game!

[Gebeleisis]

reall? havent played 1.0 yet due to pc problems but im getting it as fast as possible.

but i havent seen any heavy foot swordsmen(1h+s) a lot of the dacian nobility fought on foot also along side the "sica"armed men


sica - falx



gash i would love to help out with everything i can for this mod

[paullus]

well, there's a unit of elite getai which hasn't been released in a build yet, the agema orditon. you can see a concept sketch of them in nate's concept art thread. there are also the komatai thorakitai stratiotai, chain-armored semi-professional soldiery. what evidence would you point to of large numbers of foot nobility among the getai? bits and cavalry spears are common in rich graves.

[Gebeleisis]

oh yes i saw that one now,and will there be a update to 1.0 in the near future?
for your question regarding tarabostes.
Yes they fought on foot and on horseback alike.normaly they were mounted but in some battles they prefered to take it on foot especially in wooden terrain and as dacia was filled of woods some of the nobels took it on foot from the start