My Response:
Egypt has retaliated and attacked my Carthaginian border? Do I have a General down there? If so, recruit any Mercenaries you can. Build up any units you can as well. Preferably large-town infantry and cavalry. Carthage has amazing cavalry (long shield and round shield). The Egyptian armies are relatively weak if you understand how to counter them.
Battle-Wise: Have ~ 2 lines of infantry. Half of your infantry in the front, half in the back. Put your cavalry on either the right or left flanks of your infantry. Archers go behind your infantry, skirmishers/slingers go in the front of your infantry. As the Egyptian army begins their attack, hold out with your infantry and run around with your cavalry, finding a spot in the Egyptian army to attack. The most viable time to attack with your cavalry is from the back of enemy units, and when they are engaged with yours. Repeat with cycle-charges if the units do not route, but they should route with your mass cavalry plowing down on their sodden-backs.
Campaign-Wise: After you've managed to successfully fend against the Egyptian offense, switch your position. You go offensive now. Train ~ 3 round shield cavalry and leave them at your settlement. This will help fend against any surprise attacks Egypt will launch against you. Push forward to Memphis, Egypt's capital. Lay siege to it and just wait. Don't attempt to conquer it. After awhile, some Egyptian armies should come by and try to help their Capital city. This is how vital your battle skills will come in.
I've played long enough to win many seemingly impossible battles, but I am positive that there are hundreds and thousands of people out there that are much better than I am, but against the AI, I roam supreme. And you should too! The most effective way to deal with more than one army on a battlefield is to finish one off at a time, instead of waiting for all of them to come and hit you at once.
Applying the same battle techniques as before, you should be able to fend off against the mass.
Dealing with Generals: The Egyptian chariot general has bowmen and rains arrows down upon your troops. Unfortunately for you, Carthage doesn't have Phalanx troops until large-city settlements. The chariots are a little tricky to deal with, but essentially you want to trap them inside your mass of infantry and encircle them so they can't move. Non-moving chariots cannot do any damage, because the blades on their wheels are not moving and cutting.
Memphis should fall, and your secure position in Egypt established with it. Now is the matter with dealing swiftly with the rest of the faction and fending off against Rome and Spain.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...4#post10427534 - here is an idea of how your conquest should be.
Idea: Use Town Watches/Peasants to disrupt enemy economy and production.
. I will keep shipping new Town Watches and Peasants from my undeveloped towns (e.g. can't train any real units). I will also try to blockade their ports when I can. I got tons of income coming in (15k+ a turn) so that won't be a problem for me.
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Originally Posted by Gaius Caesar
