Can't be - he's wearing armor. Don't you know all Spartans fought bare-chested?
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no pictures, no fair
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Using warbands is probably the worst thing you can do ... But nice Battle anyways
I know what you mean, jakobh. But, this is still pretty early in Thrace campaign and I felt it was wiser to stick to warband-Thracian peltats combo, at least till I nail Dacia. They are inexpensive and can be recruited/re-trained in almost every settlement. I do not even train falxemen, cause they die too fast for their cost. As soon as I can train Thacian light cavalry, I add 2-4 units of those to my barabrian armies. Later in the game I switch to helenic armies with few barbarian units.
Here is a later battle from same campaign. This is true Diadochi action
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These are a few pics of a battle with Macs. After defeating Dacia, Thracians marched to Macedonia and immediately bumped into a large Macedonian stack.
Battle was great fun. Macs had an advantage in heavy infantry and I had an advantage in cavalry. Odds were pretty even as far as I can remember. The challenge was to win decisively, to win with minimal losses, so I could march into Macedonia without delay. (The battle was on Hard and fatigue off)
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I do wonder how your men could stand up against the Hypaspists ...
I love when the enemy general gets trapped and he has to strong moral to run away, those scenes are epic
Well, there were just two hypapists units. The problem was both those units were acting on the same flank. Approach to their annihilation was simple: pinning down with whatever unit, then a nice little javelin shower (preferrably form a flank or in the back), and cavalry charge in the rear. Thracian peltasts did the javelinning of hypapists in that battle, but Thracian light cavalry is particulalry good at both softenning and finishing heavy infantry off. A group of 3-4 experienced Thracian light cavalry units are just like piranhas, if you know what I mean.
Killing enemy general is pure katharsis indeed.
It sure did. This was not a very tough battle after all. Still, if you do not stay focused and do it by the book, you can mess things up even in such situations. The challenge here was to win decisively. A Phyrric victory would be quite a set-back and was not a part of plan .
This game rules!!!
Sure it does, it's one of the greatest mods in RTW.
Let us not forget how to behave Chivalrous - Chivalry is not dead.
Here are some Battle Screenshots of mine:
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Let us not forget how to behave Chivalrous - Chivalry is not dead.
Most of these, if not all, are from when I started playing Diadochi and didn't use Huge Units.
Now with my new Spartan Campaign I use Huge Unit Scale, but I have deserted it because of a battle
with the Makedonians I don't wanna lose, but always do
I will try to fight it again and upload the results and the battle
Last edited by Rhodian; November 21, 2009 at 05:20 AM.
Let us not forget how to behave Chivalrous - Chivalry is not dead.