Roman Legions Special Formation

[Palandiell]

hey one question about the special formation roman legions can do

this turtle formation, it is only good for attackign a city hile arrows are being knocked at you right? for any other situation, the formation is practically usleess right?

[Xavier Dragnesi]

Not really. Its also rather useful if your opponent's army consists of a lot of horse archers or missile troops in general. But yes, when it comes to melee, the testudo isn't that good.

[Palandiell]

another quick question, is it possible to stop the roman legions to throw their javelins and head off to comabt directly? cause it is getting annoying how long some legions take to react while the enemy army has already started teh attack

[Pro patria populoque]

another quick question, is it possible to stop the roman legions to throw their javelins and head off to comabt directly? cause it is getting annoying how long some legions take to react while the enemy army has already started teh attack

Hold down alt and right click - and they'll charge without throwing their pila (3rd declension neuter)

[Beeeno]

Hold down alt and right click - and they'll charge without throwing their pila (3rd declension neuter)

... wow what a scholar right here !!! I forgot all the latins I took at my high school (5 years !!!!)

[Roman_Wolf]

another quick question, is it possible to stop the roman legions to throw their javelins and head off to combat directly? cause it is getting annoying how long some legions take to react while the enemy army has already started teh attack

why do you want to do this? The throwing of their pilla is a great weapon used by the legionaries. It gives you a great advantage before battle, so I advice you stick with it.

[War lord]

why do you want to do this? The throwing of their pilla is a great weapon used by the legionaries. It gives you a great advantage before battle, so I advice you stick with it.

If you need to do it fast you might not have the time.

[Jerk]

What are those roman legions ? I don't remember them in vanilla ?!

[Scutarii]

What are those roman legions ? I don't remember them in vanilla ?!

I hope to God you are joking. Otherwise, I banish you from this forum!

[aznflea]

What are those roman legions ? I don't remember them in vanilla ?!

wtf?

ummm have you heard of the game rome total war? yeah well when you get the game, which is what this forum is about, you start off the imperial campaign as one of the three roman families. the julii, the scipii and the brutii. now the keypoint about this fact is that you HAVE to play as rome to play any other faction unless you edited the descr_strat file. chances are you would have reached the marian reforms if you played for over 50 turns at least.

[Entropy Judge]

Er, well, the Hastati and Principes both have Pila, but not the Testudo. After you get the Marian Reforms, you can train Early Legion Cohorts, then Legion Cohorts and finally Praetorian and Urban Cohorts, as well as First (both Early Legion and Legion) Cohorts once you've taken Rome. Only the Post-Marian units possess the Testudo (unsure about the Imitation and SS Legions).

[Jerk]

I have only heard it lol. That's the problem, I think. (: Anyway.

[SonOfAlexander]

I barely every use testudo, but occasionally if you cock up and some seige towers are set on fire it can protect them whilst you redirect infantry traffic to other towers. It takes them ages to get into formation though. Often useful against egyptians if anyone or Scythia. If it was on RTW then the WRE and ERE would have a much easier time against the Huns.

[Lord Thesaurian]

hey one question about the special formation roman legions can do

this turtle formation, it is only good for attackign a city hile arrows are being knocked at you right? for any other situation, the formation is practically usleess right?

Testudo is missile bait. It is useful when:

1. Assaulting walls

2. Facing an enemy with alot of missiles troops. Send some cohorts in testudo about 1-200 yds ahead of ur line, and watch as the missiles fall uselessly to the ground.

3. Anytime u need missile defense.

Testudo slowly tires ur men and is very, very slow to move in, so use it wisely. It is by no means useless, though.

[Seleucid king]

i remember a youube video showing an episode from the BBC 2 Hit series made with RTW called Time Commanders, in the Battle of Watling Street, the team on the show tried to use Testudo as an offensive Tactic!

[Rogue]

i remember a youube video showing an episode from the BBC 2 Hit series made with RTW called Time Commanders, in the Battle of Watling Street, the team on the show tried to use Testudo as an offensive Tactic!

While spreading their units out instead of defending the chokepoint when they were massively outnumbered. While watching it was like: "No you idiots, put them there. THERE!"

Testudo is remarkably useful for when noobs on RTW mp try to spam HAs or chariot archers.

[War lord]

And then done it facing away from the enemy who were killing there men.

[aznflea]

the tetsudo can be abused to kill the scythian horse archers.

[War lord]

the tetsudo can be abused to kill the scythian horse archers.

Have to chach them before you can kill them.