How do I break the Roman-campaign addiction?

**Intranetusa** · 08-16-2008, 19:19

Originally Posted by Che Roriniho

Saka Rauka. Crazy Fun. Imagine killing an entire full stack army wth 300 HAs and you have an idea of what to expect. Oh, and the Cataphract HA's are the most ridiculously fun and dangerous unit ever inventewd ever.

Oh yeh, I've been there. XD
In my Romani campaign, I was able to hire about 2 full stacks of merc horse archers (40 units) over the course of 10-15 years. I used my HA army and completely annihilated 5-6 full (15,000-20,000 troops) stacks of Getai and Seleucid armies while suffering less than 500 casualities overall.

Then I got bored on how overpowered the HorseArcher is with proper micromanagement and crappy AI, so I sent them to Sicily as a 40 unit strong garrison army against Cartage. :D

**pezhetairoi** · 08-17-2008, 00:45

Originally Posted by Intranetusa

Oh yeh, I've been there. XD
In my Romani campaign, I was able to hire about 2 full stacks of merc horse archers (40 units) over the course of 10-15 years. I used my HA army and completely annihilated 5-6 full (15,000-20,000 troops) stacks of Getai and Seleucid armies while suffering less than 500 casualities overall.

Then I got bored on how overpowered the HorseArcher is with proper micromanagement and crappy AI, so I sent them to Sicily as a 40 unit strong garrison army against Cartage. :D

You should try them against their own kind and see if you're still laughing after. :D

I did what you did as the Romans and loved it. Then I thought I could try my silver chevroned HAs against Sauromatae and regretted it. :\ Lost a full quarter against a mixed army involving Cat HAs half my size.

**Fondor_Yards** · 08-17-2008, 04:33

You should give the Lusotannon a try then. Similar but different.

**||Lz3||** · 08-17-2008, 05:53

meh if you got tired of something you should try something totally diferent

I suggest horse archers faction (suggest pahlava :P) , a successor faction (I really like AS , you might like Makedonia for instance) or one of the barbarian factions (most people go for aedui , I've also found interesting (at least worth the try ) the sweboz and the casse )