Getai - Notable Heavy Infantry?

[A Very Super Market]

Thats... what falxmen do?

Seriously, you could just spam falxmen.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Thats... what falxmen do?

Seriously, you could just spam falxmen.

Well, if you read the first post in the thread ---

My biggest need is in heavy infantry. Drapanai are just fine for flanking maneuvers, but they don't perform nearly as well in frontal attacks. The Dacian phalanxes do well to pin enemy troops, but lose more soldiers than they kill. And while conducting numerous tests in custom battle, I have discovered that the obvious choice, taxeis triballoi, can't defeat even Camillan principes, despite being about 750 mnai more expensive.

So, my question is, what heavy infantry are available for the Getai that can hold their own against other heavy infantry (meaning, dish out more damage than they receive), such as Roman legionaries (something to beat Polybian principes, perhaps)?

Then you would know why I did not put more emphasis on units other than the Elite Thracian Infantry. But yes, spamming them works just as well, if not better. However, it is not as interesting.


Oh, and to Frontline 1944: Cordinau Orca. The. Best. Sword. Infantry. In. EB.
You can get them at Signidunum

[desert]

I'm pretty sure Rhomphaiaphoroi have less than 24 armor. Unless they are elephants.

And I counter your Cordinau with Rycalawre and Lugians.

[kekailoa]

Get your hands on the Scorsidorsi swordsmen. Amazing infantry, though few in number and expensive. You find them like someone said earlier in Singidium.

[heldelance]

Cordinau Orca are plain insane. I frequently use them as flankers for my Rhomps and I gotta say, they're tough as nails. Heavy Spearment are THE linesmen for the Getai. They'll hold up against pikemen allowing faster infantry to get behind them, they're also great in the west. 2 units you WILL want if you hit the west, Boii Cingetos and Taxeis Triballoi. Cingetos do more damage and move faster but Triballoi are nigh on unbreakable making them indispensable out west. They'll hold off Principes and Triarii (the reform that give them chain mail) for a long time and give more than they get.