Usage of Auxilia

[cheatham]

How do you guys like to use your auxliia?

In the campaign, how do u use them?

How do u use them in battle? Flank protectors? Reserves? Screening force? First wave?

Please be detailed in your use.

Thanks!

[century x]

I build auxilia legions.
1 general
9 auxilia spearmen
5 auxilia infantry
3 archer auxilia
and 2 legionary cavarly

I use these legions to back up the named legions. It really helps. If the numbers in my name legion is low I just replace them and then they are back in a fighting numbers. I also build auxilia siege legions which carry my siege equipment which releives the burden of my named legion. IF you want more detail PM me.

[MarcusTullius]

I build auxilia legions.
1 general
9 auxilia spearmen
5 auxilia infantry
3 archer auxilia
and 2 legionary cavarly

I use these legions to back up the named legions. It really helps. If the numbers in my name legion is low I just replace them and then they are back in a fighting numbers. I also build auxilia siege legions which carry my siege equipment which releives the burden of my named legion.

I would definately endorse this method as it works and i use it as wll. it means my named legions can cope for longer and fiht extended campaigns

[Spartan 666]

i use them to protect the flank of my legions...4 units...

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they are excellent "light legionaries" now that they are equipped with pilum and gladius...and sometimes they kill more enemies than the "heavy" legionaries!!!

[century x]

I would definately endorse this method as it works and i use it as wll. it means my named legions can cope for longer and fiht extended campaigns

Thank you marcus. It really does work. One legion can go on its own for a long time before finally being sent back for retraining. Like I said to cheatham. If you want more detail for how I use Auxilia units. PM me and I'll fill you in.

[Caius Antonius]

The good thing about auxilia is that it can be replaced/retrained anywhere (or hired mercenaries). So when you have a legion, you'd rather sacrifice the auxilia, than the legionary cohorts.

Usually you should place 2 aux. cohors units on the sides and 2 in the front along with 2 light auxilia (or archers). Either way, your enemy will waste their pillum/arrows/slings and will be weakened by the harassing light auxilia that will eventually break their formation .

It will also give time to your legionaries to throw the pillum, making it even more easy to face the already shaken enemy

[cheatham]

I really like the idea of the auxlia army. Thanks for the idea but I have a few questions on it.

How many cohorts of leginaires do u have in a "proffesional army" of yours?
I like to use in battle 1 general, 1 first cohort, 1 empty spot(usually seige equipment), 2 cavarly, 2 arhcers, 2 javeins, and then either 11 cohorts or 9 cohorts and 2 infantry auxilia. With your compilation im guessing in the regular army there is no auxilia.

In battle, if u use them in the regular army, how do u use them in battle? front line to wear down enemy for legionaires, flank protectors/flankers?

When the auxilia army is attacked do u usually have them fight or withdraw and allow the regular army to handle the enemy?


And on a more random note, what time are u guys usually on multiplayer?

[Spartas Julius]

Hello, actually I got part of this idea from another post dude which was actually veyr ncie idea, if your willing to spend a bit of money:

My army is usually again you can switch this:
if it is republican:
1 general
2 velites
2 equites
4 hastati
4 principes
4 triarii
2 onagers
1 spot open for a mercenary or w/e, usually I get the native merc, most of the time is archers and good horsies.

with these I make a separate army of only horsemen around 5 units of equites to act as screening role

VE legions:
1 general
1 velite
2 medium cavalry or equites depending on the land
1 first (eagle bearer)
7 ve cohorts
4 triarii
3 onagers.
1 spot open again in case

with these guys I make another separate army with again cavalry but this is usually from 5-10

Imperial:
1 general,
1 auxilia javelin thrower guys
2 cavalry usually the best I can get nearby
1 first
9 cohorts
3 onagers
2 archer
again one spot open just in case

Now this is the expensive part:
I take 2 separate armies, one with no less than 10 horsemen only, usually they have 10-15.
The other army is comprised of 5-10, but really I dont go usually beyond 8 troops of auxilia, either swordsmen or missile type, is around 2:1, 2 sword 1 missile.

That way I can react quickly, although for some dam reason the horsemen get delayed most of the time lol, I forgot why the game does that or something.

But extremely effective, onagers ravage any enemy that starts, and I dont move til I'm out of ammo, and in which case around 25%-50% usually are dead.
If by any chance the enemy starts to come at me, the archers tear em down with the onagers all together, I find it hilarious when the enemy closes in but are being pomelled by artillery and archers which by the time they get to my 1 unit of javelins they get the last taste before the pila.

The only enemies that in custom battle I find it hard to fight are of course horse based cavalry, the damage done by horse archers to my testudo is nothing compare to what the archers and the artillery wont give back 10 times worse horse arches might kill around 10% which is alot, of my army, but I usually take the 40's % of their army in the end without using the infantry yet.

Every other faction since it is in close formation is blown up, those dam horsemen are a real pain, especially parthia, god hate those archers , not much the cathrparcs since they get the pila and is bye bye for most of them.

Experiement a little on which ground suits you best. Watch the terrain your army is going to, dont just march emt il the bar is exhausted, watch where it says hills, the bridges and river crossings. I tried forests but I just cant make a good ambush with loosing around 30% of my army, which I never get close to in open battlefield, I admit it I suck at ambushes.

I take a long time to get to a city, but I take my army from bridge to bridge, from river to river, if not from hill to hill, which with onagers and my pickyness gets slow, but I havenot lost a single battle yet, welle xcept the withdrawing which counts as defeats. and of course when the enemy gets a stranded unit going somewhere and chase them til they kill em. STILL in a big fight have not lost yet, doesn't mean is invincible, those dam iberians have given me aheck of a trouble with the throwin spears, greece and all of them with their close phalanxes losse no less than 30% in the initial bombing.

Well I hope it helps, if it is a bit to complicated, still more peeps will come and give their advice and opinions based on their personal experience so dont worry.

PEACE

[snuggans]

Light Auxilia Infantry - I use them as the basic garrison force.
I also recruit about 4-5 for each Legion and set them up behind the heavy infantry line. both the legionnaires and the auxilia tend to release their missiles at about the same time for devastating effect.

Archer auxilia - usually recruit a few of these for each stack, unless fighting phalanx. its either these guys, or onagers.

thats about it for me, i dont like using auxilia cavalry even though they are sometimes stronger than Legionary Cavalry.

[Austen Bin]

I usually build 4 cohorts of named legions on top of the 10(1first and 9 regular) that I have in my combat legion. Naturally, I don't want those cohorts to come to any harm as they are there to replenish losses to my legion, so I protect them with 6 auxilia cohorts and some cavalry and skirmishers.

When I invade a region with more than one legion, I will take over a province and set it up as a resupply camp with several forts to protect it, using auxilias.
If a fort is besiege, I will march the other auxilias to support it and defend the supply route.

I also use them as garrison troops for cities. Again, if rebels are in the area, I will collect together several garrisons and attack with an auxilia force under a hired governor-general.

There are other roles, such as going after small enemy forces so the legions dont have to or taking poorly defended settlement, things like that.

[Spartas Julius]

I gota agree ^^^^^, even if I could I have modded mine so much, all factions can recruit elephants or camels. Missile throw on barbarin units (infantry swordsmen) is droped, they used spears not heavy spears like the pila. Speed of attack on barbarian swordsmen, not iberia, is much slower since thye got abig ass sword. Beserkers have more power. I fixed alot of shield problems, like some barbarian skirmishers with their tiny tiny tiny shield, have more shield than some cavalry with big round ones.

Stuff like that, Athenian and Spartan hoplites are more powerfull, thats why I decided not to conquer those two cities with 6 or each hoplite units in each city, would have cost me a hell more .

Cant say more ... Oo yeah cavalry archers fire faster, but have less power, and a few more arrows, also less armor.

Anyone knows how to put two guys on the elephant towers, there is always one duno how.

Well endline is alot of people mod the RS trying to have what they have liked in other mods and mix it together as best as they can.

Another funny thing is, some phalangites have more shield bonus than the hoplites , commmon that shield is as small as an orange and some got more shield , nu nunu

PEACE

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

I found some auxilia outside of Byzantium that looked like they belonged in Parthia.

I had to train a unit of cataphracts though.

[Samuel Adams]

I have two uses for Auxilia. The first is a combat role, and can go one of two ways; filling space in a legion or as a separate entity. The other way is a garrison, again going two ways; city garrison or fort/limes garrison.

With the first I generally use them as the secret reserve, a more mobile force than the legions who are generally put in place and fight there. Along with the second line of cohorts they will exploit any weaknesses or provide support to weaknesses in my own line. In an independent command, I use them as a regular legion, but when a province is secure they revert to garrison role and emergency reserves.

In garrison, I wish I had a screenshot; right now I am in my Roman campaign and am about to invade Seleucia's inner territory. I already hold all of the med coast, so it's all inland desert fighting. I have about six forts with four cohorts apiece in them along the eastern frontiers, and they are also holding a string of forts leading into Armenia, where Seleucid phalangites can't fight well due to broken terrain.

[rory o'kane]

good man. got auxiliary archers there too?

P.S - this tactic will DEFFINATELY get more popular when we release RS 2.0 - with the different auxilary units, you won't know what to do with yourselves!