On campaign with Hillmen & other garbage??!!

**Fireright** · October 25, 2009, 12:51 PM

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?

**~~Warhammster~~** · October 25, 2009, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by Fireright

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...

**|Sith| Max** · October 25, 2009, 07:22 PM

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

**Genius of the Restoration** · October 25, 2009, 08:40 PM

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.

**Parzival2211** · October 26, 2009, 12:53 AM

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

)

**Genius of the Restoration** · October 26, 2009, 04:31 AM

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.

**|Sith| Max** · October 26, 2009, 07:06 PM

Life's a

. at least you can recruit new junk right?

**Genius of the Restoration** · October 26, 2009, 07:16 PM

An endless supply of it. Victory by swamping.

**blackwatersix** · November 02, 2009, 08:48 AM

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.

**ssmarine** · November 03, 2009, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by blackwatersix

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.

**Genius of the Restoration** · November 02, 2009, 04:30 PM

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

**Fireright** · November 04, 2009, 06:21 AM

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!!

**Genius of the Restoration** · November 04, 2009, 06:34 AM

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