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    Default On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Amongst Romes' various faction rosters there lurk some truly duff combat units little better than poor ole peasants. (I'm looking at you hillmen heheheh).

    Top three duffers and born routers in my book are hillmen, desert infantry and eastern infantry. (screeching women I just can't take seriously)

    The ultimate challenge must be to go on campaign using only hillmen and no cavalry.


    Anyone ever gone on campaign using only the most garbage unit in their faction??

    Any progress made or thrashed out of sight?
    Last edited by Fireright; October 25, 2009 at 12:56 PM. Reason: typos

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fireright View Post
    Amongst Romes' various faction rosters there lurk some truly duff combat units little better than poor ole peasants. (I'm looking at you hillmen heheheh).

    Top three duffers and born routers in my book are hillmen, desert infantry and eastern infantry. (screeching women I just can't take seriously)

    The ultimate challenge must be to go on campaign using only hillmen and no cavalry.


    Anyone ever gone on campaign using only the most garbage unit in their faction??

    Any progress made or thrashed out of sight?
    Ehum Desert Infantry got a good morale... Try going on campaign with just Town Watch instead...

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    i've completed many cataphr- Parthia campaigns. its not that hard. Rly..


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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    I've played Carthaginian campaigns where most of my conquering is done with Iberian Infantry, a couple of Libyan Spearmen and Roundshields. It's pretty fun to use average units to win.

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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Was that also on VH/VH? (probably only manageable in the early stages of a game when the other factions have not upgraded their military yet; but after all you are speed-runner )

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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Haha yeah it was...
    Needed the Round Shields though, without cavalry that force would get ruined by pila.
    Last Carthaginian campaign I played was using the Mundus Magnus mod. I was more than a little surprised when I came to Rome with my army of low tier units to find that in that mod the Rome garrison has gold attack and defence upgrades with 7xp. Brutal stuff.

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    Life's a . at least you can recruit new junk right?


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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    An endless supply of it. Victory by swamping.

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    I did that in BI just spammed stack upon stack of those levy spearmen and raiders. ended up taking Jerusalem 600 years early, going down through the caucasus instead of crossing from byzantium.

    the benefit of using low-tier units is that you can recruit them anywhere. Don't need upgraded barracks to refit a heavily damaged stack.
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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Quote Originally Posted by blackwatersix View Post
    I did that in BI just spammed stack upon stack of those levy spearmen and raiders. ended up taking Jerusalem 600 years early, going down through the caucasus instead of crossing from byzantium.

    the benefit of using low-tier units is that you can recruit them anywhere. Don't need upgraded barracks to refit a heavily damaged stack.
    Funny you bring up BI because I did the same exact thing. I know with the Franks, it was very easy to beat using entire armies of levy spearmen.



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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    That's very true. Late units = pain to retrain.

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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Methinks mega-spamming is the only way to go when campaigning with a bunch of duffers and natural born routers. Plenty of reinforcement armies required to fill up those white flag rout slots!!

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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Not necessarily spamming, but swarming I'd say. A mass of different types of cheap units gets the job done when used well. Reinforcements are always handy to replace those that bite the pilum

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    Default Re: On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

    Quantity is a quality all in itself.
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