Battle of Cannae (for 7 players) to play online
Unit scale:
Unit scale is totally optional (if you cannot afford large or huge, then play or normal or small).
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Map - some flatland; if you have Belle's Map Pack then Roman Grassland would be good.
If you don't have Belle's Map Pack, you can use Italian Lowland or Grassy Flatland.
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Carthaginian Army of Hannibal - 3 players:
One player = Gauls:
Units:
1 x Barbarian Warlord or Barbarian Chosen Warlord (optional)
2 x Chosen Swordsmen
5 x Warband
2 - 3 x Swordsmen*
2 - 3 x Naked Fanatics*
0 - 2 x Skirmisher Warband*
5 x Barbarian Noble Cav. / Barbarian Cav. (optional - but proportion must be 3:2, 4:1 or 5:0 in favour of Noble Cav.)
1 x Druids (or - optionally - instead of Druids any other "extra" infantry unit, except for Foresters and Peasants)
*Optional and to be agreed (but of course the sum of Swordsmen + Fanatics + Skirmishers must be 6).
Total number of units: 20
Total cost without any upgrades: ca. 9310 - 10750 denari.
One player = Carthage:
Units:
1 x General's Bodyguard or General's Armoured Bodyguard (optional)
1 x Sacred Band Cavalry
2 x Sacred Band
2 - 3 x Poeni Infantry*
3 - 5 x Libyan Spearmen*
6 - 5 x Numidian Mercenaries (cavalry)*
3 - 4 x Skirmishers*
*The sum of Poeni Infantry + Libyan Spearmen + Numidian cavalry + Skirmishers must be 16.
Total number of units: 20
Total cost without any upgrades: ca. 9390 - 10120 denari.
One player = Spain:
Units:
1 x General's Bodyguard or General's Armoured Bodyguard (optional)
8 x Scutarii
3 x Long Shield Cavalry
2 x Balearic Slingers
1 - 3 x Skirmishers*
1 - 4 x Naked Fanatics*
1 - 4 x Iberian Infantry*
*The sum of Skirmishers + Fanatics + Iberian Infantry must be 6.
Total number of units: 20
Total cost without any upgrades: ca. 8150 - 8900 denari.
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Roman Army of Varro and Paullus - 4 players:
All players = Romans (no matter which family, but House of Scipii or Julii would be good):
Units (each player should have this set of units):
1 x Roman General (normal one - not Armoured one, Roman players have no choice here)
0 - 1 x Roman Cavalry (optional)*
2 - 1 x Cavalry Auxilia or Equites (it can also be 1 x Equites + 1 x Cav. Auxilia)*
2 - 3 x Triarii**
4 - 5 x Hastati**
4 - 5 x Principes**
3 - 5 x Velites**
0 - 1 x Roman Archers**
*The sum of Roman Cavalry + Cavalry Auxilia or / and Equites must be 2 (!).
**The sum of Triarii + Hastati + Principes + Velites + Roman Archers must be 17.
Total number of units: 20 (x 4)
Total cost without any upgrades: ca. 8330 - 9010 each.
Number of denari has to be agreed. Each Roman player should have at least 8330 - 9010 denari (this amount is necessary for each of Roman armies without any upgrades). So in total at least 33320 - 36040 denari per team should be available for this battle. But it can also be more, if players want.
I am not sure if "Carthaginian Team" should be allowed to use all denari. If you want the battle to be a bit harder for the Hannibal's army (as it was in reality), don't allow the Carthaginian team to use as many denari as Roman team but proportionally smaller amount.
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Exchanging units between players:
Players can agree to exchange units between themselves (provided that their factions have same types of units to exchange available).
For example one Roman player can give 2 triarii to another Roman player, and take 2 principes in exchange. Etc.
Also Carthage would be able to exchange some units with Spain, as these factions have many similar units.
But the sum of units of each type for each team must be in agreement with the list of units for each team provided above.
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Enjoy this historical scenario (I tried to make army compositions as historically accurate as possible and at the same time I tried to make it balanced).
PS:
Carthaginian army doesn't have elephants because sources say that all of Hannibal's elephants had already died before Cannae.
Only few sources say that a few elephants (numbers range from 1 to 13) survived. But they didn't play any major role in this battle anyway.
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Sources used:
- http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=425156
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae
- http://www.histurion.pl/historia/sta...publiki/0.html
- book "From Armageddon to the Fall of Rome" (chapter about Cannae) by Erik Durschmied
And several other sources.
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Originally Posted by Domen123
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