Carthage Army Composition

[athanaric]

I tend to recruit my armies locally. My Iberian provinces provide largely Romanish armies, with lots of Iberian heavy infantry supported by regional cav and balearic slingers. In italy I recruit a lot of Hastati supported by Neitos and other Celtic units, then my Liby-Pheonician units from Africa supported by Numidians.

Indeed, half of the fun of a Carthaginian campaign is that because of their excellent recruitment possibilities, you can play "several factions at once" and create local Iberian, Gallic, Hellenic/Italic, or Numidian armies that are (almost) self-sufficient in terms of balance.

[Cute Wolf]

If I play as kart hadast, my northern region army consists of mostly Iberians and Celts, with some core is General with 1 Sacred band Cav or 2 Sacred band Inf / Elite African Axemen..... to represent Carthaginian Elites.... Against those incest maniacs, I often use Libyans and Numidian Nobles (the numidian cav sucks), but that's because importing Iberians and Celts is simply not worth against massive Phalangitai Elites that Ptolemaioi throws....

[Zim]

Indeed, half of the fun of a Carthaginian campaign is that because of their excellent recruitment possibilities, you can play "several factions at once" and create local Iberian, Gallic, Hellenic/Italic, or Numidian armies that are (almost) self-sufficient in terms of balance.

Yeah, it's gone a long way towards keeping the long campaign I've been playing interesting.

Two questions for fans of Carthage. I tend to try to rp while playing, including putting together stacks that are semi realistic (mostly in not building them all out of a single unit and not using more than a few elites). Aside from the obvious (Sacred Band, "Elite" African Infantry, etc). ,What Carthaginian units would be considered elite? As the game advances and enemy armies become much tougher, I've been building my armies out of a core of Scutarii or heavy Libyans, never counting them against my limit on elite troops, but I noticed at least for the latter their description equates them with Thorakitai, which I would consider as bordering on elite...

Also, anyone make it into Anatolia as Carthage? I'm having a heck of a time finding anything regional worth making an army out of. Even nearby Tylis and Byzantion so far don't seem to be producing the good regional troops I expect playing as other factions (Ankyra does show some promise), and in most of Anatolia itself I can recruit very little, basically eastern cav, Anatolian Hillmen, and a couple greek units.

[DaciaJC]

I would consider Iberian Assault Infantry to be elite. 14 armor, and the EB description calls them "elite assault infantry".

[Zim]

Those guys are great. I try not to throw them into the fray until they're absolutely needed, but I know they'll take down anthing in their path when they do finally fight.

I guess I was most worried about the Libyan Heavy Spearmen and the regular Iberian Heavy Infantry. Once in a while I'll recruit about five of either of them to form my main battle line.

[Andronikos]

Karthadast is a faction with largest number of elite units. They can recruit even Gaesatae.