The Ultimate Battle Turning Unit

[WarpGhost]

I rarely build cavalry or elite infantry; I just find them cost ineffective. So I tend to rely on a combination of archers, phalanx and swamping the enemy from all sides, thus the levie option fits the bill for me.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I rarely build cavalry or elite infantry; I just find them cost ineffective. So I tend to rely on a combination of archers, phalanx and swamping the enemy from all sides, thus the levie option fits the bill for me.

Use light cavalry. That is all I use in my current Eperios campaign. Prodromoi and Illyrioi Hippies are relatively cheap (~2.000 mnai), are fast, barely tire and their charges are jut as effective as any other cavalry. Since I never use even the heaviest of my cavalry in melee, light cavalry is all I train.

Nothing in the game beats the effectiveness of a good old-fashioned charge in the rear. It does enormous amount of damage and has routed just about every unit I have ever encountered from the first charge. Fells like cheating, really. Even Triarii and Pezhetairoi, when engaged with another one of my units, can be routed with a single light mounted charge in the back.

On the other hand, surrounding the enemy is slow and often ineffective, especially when done to phalanxes and elites. AP units, with clubs, axes, flaxes, etc solve this, but still, it is unnecessarily inexpedient, which costs you men.

[Cute Wolf]

very sad indeed, the Spartans didn't have the "Frighten" attributes. In their description, the writer said that Spartans does indeed had a frightening effect in enemy morale...