A desperate plea on behalf of the Aedui and Casse

[Gonras]

Well, after I conquered Rome, it was much easier to deal with the swebozez. I rather swept them away, All they had were Gaisofulco Frijod. Easily defeated. From then, Casse ruled from French to Italy to Poland :)

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Well, after I conquered Rome, it was much easier to deal with the swebozez. I rather swept them away, All they had were Gaisofulco Frijod. Easily defeated. From then, Casse ruled from French to Italy to Poland :)

Yeah when you can focus soley on the Sweboz they aren't that difficult. It was the same for me. After I had more or less defeated the Romans, my Aedui faction leader rolled up the Sweboz in about 10 years game time. Unfortunately conquering those lands isn't much of an incentive since they are so poor.

[Brennus]

Oooh I am so frustrated right now! Last night, following people's advice I started a new Aedui game, I fought three Averni armies outside Viennos, slaughtered them, took Viennos. Today it seems the autosave didn't bother to kick in so I had to fight the battle again, after three attempts I ended with a slightly poorer but still acceptable victory.... then my Rome TW CD decided to close down. Aaargh. Ah well, back we go!

[Unintended BM]

You shouldn't rely on autosaves anyway. Whenever I load from them, it's always the wrong season according to my FMs' traits, so it obviously screws something up. Anyways, I thought I'd share some of my pictures from my old Aedui game that was very fun.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Start with this.

Then go to this.

Then work on getting the reforms so you can get incredibly overpowered armies like this.

Then kill them.

After all that, I made my way into Iberia, but I quit before I ever finished killing those Lusotanans and Carthaginians. It was a very fun game.

Basically, to fight the Romans, you need a lot of swordsmen. Those guys do the best, but these guys do a great job too. Slingers and cavalry are important too. Romans fight pretty much like the gauls do, except they have way more armor at the start, and their cavalry isn't nearly as dangerous as yours. Just make sure you constantly out manuever them, because in a head on battle, you'll lose.

To take out the Sweboz, a similar strategy can be used, except by that time, you'll have probably gotten the reforms so you can use some great heavy infantry. It shouldn't be too hard, really.

[Gonras]

Yeah when you can focus soley on the Sweboz they aren't that difficult. It was the same for me. After I had more or less defeated the Romans, my Aedui faction leader rolled up the Sweboz in about 10 years game time. Unfortunately conquering those lands isn't much of an incentive since they are so poor.

Didn't say that my casse were rich ;)

[Brennus]

Lovely shots Unintended BM!

[ARCHIPPOS]

Can i offer some advice on a Casse Campaign ??? Do the following
1.Use your fleet to move your diplomat to the Continent.Start using your diplomat to make peace treaties and get trade rights etc with all your neighbors (Sweboz,Aedui,Arverni,Lusotannan).
2.Move your fleet into your capital's port and disband it.You won't need it for quite some time.
3.Compare the managerial skills of your starting 3 FM's. Move your best administrator into your capital.Set taxes to Very high.Build roads.
4.Start training a unit or two of slingers.
5.Move your spy around into the eleutheroi regions.Locate the enemy halfstack which should be roaming somewhere in the West (in the border between Cassemorg,Corieltauvae,Cambriae,Cornovae).Keep an eye on that army.
5.Take your two remaining FM's your two Boatroas, your two Gaeroas, your one (two?) units of Laesotae and siege Ratae.Build rams.(by the way your general should be given all the cool retinue members that heal casualties and give extra morale-druids,armourers,witch doctors, bards and so on)
6.Attack on next round.It is very important that you get Ratae with the minimum possible casualties.Proceed as following.
-Open multiple (3) breaches on the enemy walls.have your lusotae shell the enemies from distance.Targets of preference should be low quality infantry.By the time your slingers are out of ammo you should have taken out 15-20% of the enemy.
-Move your gaeroas and boatroas forth towards the breaches.Let them throw their javelins on the enemy's FLANKS as the stupid AI moves his troops up and down along the breaches.By now 20-25 % of the enemy are dead.
-Move your chariots forth.Have them stand by the two breaches and let them fire on will.Move your infantry boys by the third breach.have the boatroas rush through quickly followed by the gaeroas.Order them to stand ground facing the enemy contigents in a 4-unit front.By now the enemy should be charging your boys but you have an advantage.You face each enemy contigent with four of yours.2 spears and 2 swords contigents chewing up the enemy's one-by-one charges.Plus your chariots are taking easy shots on the enemy's flanks and backs and adding considerable scare factor. Continue until all enemy troops are decimated/routed/fallen back to the town center.By now you should have killed off the enemy chariot commander too.Extra morale penalty for the enemy.
-surround the last defenders and kill kil kill them...
7.Ratae is yours.Your army should be now reduced to 60% of what they were due to casualties.You'll probably have a contigent of gaeroas and boatroas and the other two units will be probably depleted to 1/3-1/4 of their original size.Your slinger boys should be alright (you shouldn't use them in melee).However by now there should be an enemy ministack of ferocious caledonian skirmishers standing right by your Capital.Do not panick.Use the extra cash (reduced army upkeep remember???) to train two units of Kluddobro.then unite those guys with your
remaining troops and your FM and attack the enemy.
-shell the enemy from distance with your slingers and lure him into facing your troops massed together and in good order(one united front of spears and swords and shields).Always use the higher ground to your advantage.If possible move your chariots behind the engaged enemy to scare him.
OK.repeat steps 5,6, and 7 accordingly to get all the eleytheroi settlements up to Ireland.Train more and better quality troops, upgrade their armour etc as you find preferable.Build up your economy by lowering taxes, building roads,ports, markets, granaries,mines.See to it that your populations are booming using hygiene infrastructure. As your treasury grows the task of unifying the Island of Britain and Ireland will become considerably easier.After unifying the Islands under your rule you will easily be the richest faction around. Then you can train some badass troops like milhant, champions, sword masters, heroes etc and invade the continent.That's what i'm about to do now playing at VH/M difficulty settings

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Here's a nice pic from my Aedui campaign.



Only my second completed campaign.

[Arjos]

Took a vacation to Egypt? XD

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Yeah I RP'd the Hellenistic powers hiring out my warriors to serve them in their ongoing wars. I tried to nip the Yellow Fever in the bud by invading Egypt though I must say the trip to Alexandria by boat was harrowing and I lost a previous army to pirates. I conquered Alexandria, Memphis and was sieging Diaspolis-Megale when I was hit by an all-elite Ptolie army which hurt me badly. I retreated north but was sandwiched between two more armies in a battle which I came within a hair of winning. My army was destroyed but I was able to hold out in Alexandria which let the AS conquer back a few territories from the Ptolies and reach the Mediterranean again.