Barbarian Invasion; VH/VH battles: Touch-and-go?

[Dave Strider]

I have been playing a Sarmatian campaign on BI and I have been noticing that whenever the enemy general gets close to my men, they near insta-rout. Even if my general is nearby they almost ALWAYS run. I lost 2200 heavy infantry to Limitanei because of this and I am pissed.

[Genius of the Restoration]

Crank your general's command up to level the playing field? Does your own general have bad traits? Sounds like your units just have bad morale, it shouldn't matter that it's an enemy general, to my knowledge they're treated just like any other cav unit for morale penalties.

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

it seems that units in BI have really, really, finicky morale. I had veteran commitatenses go into 'steady' or even 'shaky' morale even before the battle has started when they are standing in front of regular enemy infantry and sometimes they rout upon contact.

to help compensate for this, try putting your men in dense blocks or have your general nearby

*edit* get priests. they help a ton

[Majkl]

comitatenses sucks ,romans scks
i checked units.txt and i dscovered that these poor comitatenses got only 6 morale, while heavy infantry have like 9 and elite infantry 11

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

that's shambolic. those roman legions would be experiencing decimation every other day

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

There were no legions and was no decimation.

But still, IRL the comitatenses were decent infantry.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Yeah, the problem was: the "barbarians" also had decent infantry

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

That is the reason why I said decent.

The barbarians had better inf than comitatenses.
They could not match palatinae units, however.
Only the sassanids could match these.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

That is the reason why I said decent.

The barbarians had better inf than comitatenses.
They could not match palatinae units, however.
Only the sassanids could match these.

If you think about it; what couldn't the Sassanids handle?


Don't say anything, I know the answer

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Arabs

[Majkl]

barbars for life

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

Well, after 40 years of continuous warfare with heavy casualties and 3/4ths of the nobility dead, who could?
But the romans just got lucky, arabs went for the persians first, allowing them to somewhat recupurate.