Carthaginian spartans

[Darth Caesar]

OMG, how strong are they sacred band infantry for the carthaginians, they are like spartans or something, I knew they were strong, but cmon, I had like two units of them and they alone took on and beat over a thousand illyrians, 2 sacred band inf, no cav, and 2 slingers, the slingers were killed and my sacred band just went super saiyan, what are they, russell crowe or something

Im not complaining, I think its great, I have my new faction for MP now, just wondering if anyone else has had something like this happen to them?

[mcantu]

well if youre playing VH, then the AI is getting something like +7 attack as well as morale bonuses. You wont be getting these if youre playing as them in MP...

[Quinn Inuit]

Eh, sacred band aren't invincible. In a medium difficult battle, I beat an army of Carthaginians in the streets of Palma (mostly Berbers, but 2 sacred band and 2-3 L-Ps, and some cav and elephants) with an army of one Italian ala, 3 hoplite levies, a scutarii spearmen, and a couple of local slinger mercs (all at about 1 XP). Of course, I lost about 2/3 of my guys to do it, but it worked.

[Darth Caesar]

I couldnt believe it when it happened, my two sacred band just absolutely owned them, they were completely surrounded, in the middle of a mass of barbs, and all the barbs ran or died, amazing..., so the enemy gets an advantage on harder settings, cos I have my battle setting at v/h and campaign at h, they are absolutely great, im gonna try them against spartans now

[Warmaker]

I set the Battles for Medium.

Why?

There are no cheesey, artificial bonuses to any units.

Whatever bonuses all units go in with is what they get.

[Visna]

Medum battles is the way to go. Oh, and against some units the sacred band rocks. Like a bunch of Chuck Norris + Vin Diesel + Brad Pitt all in one neat package. :tooth:

[Quinn Inuit]

I set the Battles for Medium.

Why?

There are no cheesey, artificial bonuses to any units.

Whatever bonuses all units go in with is what they get.

I agree wholeheartedly. What's the point in working so hard to balance the game and then giving all the AI units a huge bonus? If I want more of a challenge I use tougher house rules or a harder starting kingdom.

[Numenor]

playing in vh sometimes is stupid. i always play on it, but seeing weaker units, destroing my stronger units... i'm going to play in h/vh now..

[King_Azzole]

I used to be a very hard user. I had thought it simply made the AI smarter on the battlefield. When I learned that it does no such thing and simply gives some stupid attack and morale bonus I am now a firm believer in medium difficulty.

With campaign difficulty it depends on what faction I am playing. If I am going to play a faction that does not have a spread out empire like the Iberians I will use VH. If I am playing the Parthians I will have to use Medium because I can't stand running all over the place killing rebels on such a vast empire. I really wish rebels were disabled.

[Quinn Inuit]

Agreed. Rome: Total COPS stinks.

[Xraider]

since imperator 2 doesnt add new units to carthage so i think i may post... Your right... i was playing custom battle aginst carthage , i have 6 unit of the best roman cavalry whit 3 gold exp 3 weapon exp and 3 defence exp and i attacked carthage whit them, and you know what ??? 1 unit of poeni ant 2 sacred band unit kick the ass of out my entire cavalry and my general and 50% of my army !! that is really stupid, they had no exp , Its really dumb guys ;] there immortal like the theban sacred band, i killed only 50 of them ! but later the remains of the army kicked the ass of there army and they broked D but they had 60% of there troops left ! it dumb

[florin80]

With campaign difficulty it depends on what faction I am playing. If I am going to play a faction that does not have a spread out empire like the Iberians I will use VH. If I am playing the Parthians I will have to use Medium because I can't stand running all over the place killing rebels on such a vast empire. I really wish rebels were disabled.

That`s exactly my point. I don`t like to fight 5 battles a turn on the battle map against 4 brigand units. Who btw start the battle on top of a distant hill and it takes you more to get to them then to fight the battle. I like to autoresolve some of these "fights" and I noticed that on hard and very hard 3 brigand units beat the hell out of a medium or large army. It`s annoying.

[Sarkiss]

That`s exactly my point. I don`t like to fight 5 battles a turn on the battle map against 4 brigand units. Who btw start the battle on top of a distant hill and it takes you more to get to them then to fight the battle. I like to autoresolve some of these "fights" and I noticed that on hard and very hard 3 brigand units beat the hell out of a medium or large army. It`s annoying.

[The Walrus]

I used to be a very hard user. I had thought it simply made the AI smarter on the battlefield. When I learned that it does no such thing and simply gives some stupid attack and morale bonus I am now a firm believer in medium difficulty.

With campaign difficulty it depends on what faction I am playing. If I am going to play a faction that does not have a spread out empire like the Iberians I will use VH. If I am playing the Parthians I will have to use Medium because I can't stand running all over the place killing rebels on such a vast empire. I really wish rebels were disabled.

Go into your descr_strat file and put 100 at the lines of
brigand_spawn_value 10
pirate_spawn_value 28
(those are the vanilla files) REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACKUP!!!!

EDIT: If I helped you some rep would be nice :wink: