Cimbri Hard campaign/Very Hard Battles
Well it's my first campaign in Roma Surrectum and enjoying it very much. Playing as the Cimbri, I've managed to expand the tribe into the whole of northern Germania, but rather than take on the rebel tribes, I developed the Cimbri economy and found out two things. At hard settings my economy is producing a colossal amount of money!! which enables me simply to buy up most of the neighbouring tribal settlements and armies. Those that refuse are treated with total ruthlessness by my well trained bands of warriors. Should this Germanic tribe have a successful economy like this through such things as mining? I seem to recall that they were not advanced as the Celts economically.
However my initial success has received a significant dent on my advance eastwards, having concluded a temporary alliance with the Boii in the south. East of the province of Venedae my army was soundly beaten by the local Aesti tribe in the woods using a combination stealthy tactics and powerful mercenary cavalry.
It started off well enough when I encountered the band marching through the woods and positioned my skirmishers on a hill slope to rain down javelins and stones upon them. They stood there and exchanged fire but didn't advance up the slope, choosing in stead to fall back occasionally to draw my skirmishers down the hill.
After a while Proto-Slavic Spearmen and Germanic mercenary cavalry appeared on two other sides attacking and my force became rapidly denuded and overcome. The rout into these realistically modeled woods by the survivors pursued by enemy spear men as the mist drew in, felt like a real thrashing. There is much to learn before we encounter the mighty Roman Legions.