Casse anyone?

**Javolenus** · 01-05-2008, 16:24

Many thanks for these replies.

I'll check out the EB website and, having read Ludens' excellent summary, I'll probably play a Casse campaign after I finish the present game.

That's good advice Ludens - many thanks!

**Strategos Alexandros** · 01-05-2008, 18:45

A word of advice: Keep one unit of infantry and disband the rest to get out of debt. Keep one unit or you may be defeated by a bunch of Caledonian skirmishers on turn 3. My earliest campaign end on EB so far.

**Javolenus** · 01-05-2008, 18:58

Hi Strategos Alexandros,

Thanks for this reply. I just started playing EB recently and began with a Romani campaign. But it seems to me that playing a 'barbarian' faction might be more of a challenge. Maybe the Casse are one of the harder factions to play?

I'll remember the advice about Caledonian skirmishers!

**Redmeth** · 01-05-2008, 19:24

I noticed that the rebels won't attack you until you build roads, as soon as the roads got completed they always attacked me.

**Gaius Valerius** · 01-05-2008, 19:36

i have had the same experience with the casse in 0.81 like Ludens, so i've got nothing to say about that.

one thing though is slightly advantaguous in my opinion: casse start on an island. from when you've conquered everything from the thames river to the irish highlands i managed to create a flourishing economy (was a bugger to conquer everything though, friggin rebels and stupid chariots

). i quickly got more than 100k mnai etc and kept on building.

one thing i couldn't enjoy in 0.81 but is possible in 1.0 are the reforms. since their no longer on a pre-set date the celtic factions are no longer limited by that.

in fact, with these 'reform' in the reforms i think the casse have the strongest potential of all celtic factions. why? you start on an island, once conquered its all yours (and thats about the only hard part). then all you have to do is built that economy, trigger all reforms, make a sh*tload of cash and start conquering the mainland.

the only thing perhaps is you'll then also meet harder resistance but you'll have the best troops under your command so its a double-sided coin.

**Redmeth** · 01-06-2008, 11:08

Originally Posted by Gaius Valerius

one thing i couldn't enjoy in 0.81 but is possible in 1.0 are the reforms. since their no longer on a pre-set date the celtic factions are no longer limited by that.

The reforms got tweaked they triggered too fast in 1.0 even if the player was not a Celtic faction. But as the Casse if you conquer the whole island and build up towards the needed things you'll still be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time. The 2nd reform will not be something you'd hold off winning the game in order to reach...

Originally Posted by Gaius Valerius

in fact, with these 'reform' in the reforms i think the casse have the strongest potential of all celtic factions. why? you start on an island, once conquered its all yours (and thats about the only hard part). then all you have to do is built that economy, trigger all reforms, make a sh*tload of cash and start conquering the mainland.

the only thing perhaps is you'll then also meet harder resistance but you'll have the best troops under your command so its a double-sided coin.

I agree, I'd like once to let the game play out on the mainland until after the 2nd reform and then fight it out with the best rosters...

**americancaesar** · 01-06-2008, 11:12

Don't mean to self-promote but I think this might help you...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96006

Its my Casse aar. You can get some good gameplay ideas if you parse though the rp.

AC

**Ludens** · 01-05-2008, 20:07

Originally Posted by Redmeth

I noticed that the rebels won't attack you until you build roads, as soon as the roads got completed they always attacked me.

That could be it. Roads were always one of the first things I built, so that would explain why they attacked me. However, like I wrote, I could dissuade them from attacking by moving nearly all my units a bit up the road. Not sure why. Anyway, your starting army is not quite as powerful as the stack of Caledonian skirmishers (Balroa), and anyway you cannot afford to go to war with the Eleutheroi because you will lose almost all your trade income.

One thing I forgot was that in EB 1.0 the Casse can recruit naked spearmen. They are wimpy units, no wear near as tough as the gaesatae, but their presence scares enemy infantry, which is useful to break uncertain enemy units.

**Xehh II** · 01-05-2008, 22:26

Casse is one of my favorite faction but I don't play them because their generals suck.

**Javolenus** · 01-06-2008, 01:20

Hi, and many thanks for the replies! That's plenty of good info on the Casse faction - I'll give them a try and see what happens.

I also wanted to ask: do the Casse get historical-type leaders like boudicca and Caratacus? Just wondering . . .

**wumpus** · 01-11-2008, 10:53

Yo Ludens. I tried playing Casse (my very first choice), but I accidentally attacked an Eleutheroi village somewhere in modern Denmark, which was also besieged by the Sweboz (I know, I know--a blunder in picking the wrong side, and a very bad place to be in(what was I doing in Denmark?) so far from home), and of course got drubbed and was losing money fast too, so I abandoned the campaign and erased it then started a fresh Casse campaign, this time following the advice of the Guide (disband some units, get the emissary across the Channel, look for trade partners, disband the ship), but I soon was again on the road to bankruptcy. At the moment, I can't think of what to do next. But I like your advice here--it could help me a lot. Hawooh.