Surprisingly bad units

[strategos roma]

I'm using them as my missile units in my Pontus campaign, in my armies fighting in the same area as you, without any real problems. After healing they normally take few to no causalities. Even if you do, simply march coast and ship them back home with a small navy. If your admirals are decent at all they should be back in Syria by the end of the year.

The parthian horse archers killed over half of them every time and the ptolemies smashed my fleet.