Ballista
Ok, i was in a battle with egypt against pontus. I got my chariots(not chariot archers) and they had ballistas. Well, since ballistas are annoying i decided to send in my chariots. Piece of cake. Chariots slaughter ballistas and the battle continues.
Well, it was not that way. The ballistas slaughtered my chariots and routed them. I only caused very few deads among the ballistas. I was like WTF
Is this supposed to happen?
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It may depends on the balistas. They are annoying, i know. I suggest you should flank them, instead of just hit them in the front, which will make the balista easier to shot your chariots.
And if you meant the balista carriers killed your chariots, i suggest you should move the chariots pass them, the chariots will do their work (kill them with deadly spike), not simply attack them. Your chariots will just stand and fight normally with the enemy infrantry, and you know, chariots are quite weak that way.
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But they did not shoot. I did mean the carriers killed my chariots.
I know chariots are weak while standing, but ballistas? They werent just defeated, slaughtered, they did not stand a chance :S
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Sometimes it happens. My mighty calvary unit charge the carriers, and BOOM! My calvaries fall and die :laugh:
but remember that it is not usually happens. Normally you can make the carriers fly with the charge, but if your calvaries fall, considering yourself has received some bad luck
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Just like my general dying when charging a group of archers from the side?
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Yeah! That happens sometimes... I think it is the game's annoying bug or something, when the calvary die when charging the troops like carriers or skirmissers.
But of course you can still enjoy the game, since it's just a small bug and not happens much.
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Yeah, and egyptians own everything XD
Although now im at war with pontus and scipii(they are in greece :S).
Is it right that the ammo of my ca's is a lot more then my bowmen?
Semisalis
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I doubt its a bug reallly.
Or if it is then i wouldnt mind it since that could always happen.
It may not have been a design feature but it is kind of realistic your general die charging in from the side.
1 decent archer in that unit if it was real could have killed your general its unlikely but it could happen.
Ive had a few cases like that happen but i tend to enjoy it when they do just because it adds some small surprises to the game for me.
In my last battle i charged 216 macedoninan cavalry and my general and hes 95 bodyguards at an enemy unit of skirmishers.
They tossed spears and out of the entire army only my general died the rest of my men were totally unscathed.
It made me laugh simply because it took away my very best general seriously reducing the effectiveness of my army.
My new general is a wet behind the ears 19 year old with no combat experience simply because hes young so if he dosnt die in battle i can make him into a wrecking machine.
Plus my army is still pretty toughsince all its units are well into silver chevrons
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Civis
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Yes, I was fighting a MP battle recently and it was reaching it's final stages. My opponent had 5 men left in his general's bodyguard unit and must have been concentrating elsewhere because he left them just standing still. I charge them from the back with 12 men in my unit and my general dies.
These things happen
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greek generals are worst i had a general with + 6hp trait just nudge a unit of town watch he was the only one that made contact for split second and he died instantly, this has happened to me before with greek city states their generals are made of wet toilet paper
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Town watch, are for some reason strong against cavalry XD
Just like when i put my ca's on skirmish mode against spears, suddenly they decide to run away, not away from the spears, no why should we do that, lets go straight throug them XD
Semisalis
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Brave men!!!
They show no fear in the face of death and there to stupid to remember what a bow is for they charge death head on then just as there being killed they suddenly remember what a bow is for.
I am the shadow, and the smoke in your eyes I am the ghost, that hides in the night.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender.
" The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night’s embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in the day’s harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it’s the day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
The dark is generous, and it is patient.
It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt.
The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.
The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.
The dark’s patience is infinite.
Eventually, even stars burn out.
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It always wins because it is everywhere.
It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars."
Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end.
You began the war.
I am going to end it!
Foederatus
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That is a bit odd. The Ballista crews usually do not hold up well in a close-quarters battle.
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Ok, now i feeled by the game! I had this really strong army, 4 generals(chariot archers)+2 chariot archers+8 nile spearmen+2 bowmen. No Pontic army could beat me, not even 2700 men, against 1200 of me. But now suddenly my generals have become idiotic horses! WTF :O
Now there is this huge Pontic army and im screwed...
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Your generals are upgraded due the marius reform, i see
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Hmz, might exlain why scipii declared war on me... They are in greece! :S
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Your problem certainly is odd. I know from a past gaming experience as Numidia when I took the island-city of Caralis from the Scipii (bad move), they sent scrub armies in the thousands to take it back (Kind of ironic. They lost over 10,000 men to gain a city of about 1,500). They sent a few ballistas and my Generals had fun killing the little guys. I don't think they really ever killed my men. Maybe the ALL MIGHTY POWER OF NUMIDIA was too much for them, but the "Meh" power of Egypt was below the MIGHTY PONTUS.
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