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    Default no gallic skirmishers?

    Hello, i`ve been playng EB I for years - and still is the best of all total war mods
    My question is about 2 Gallic factions - Aedui and Arverni. I`ve noticed they field the only infantry-based army that lack any kind of javelin skirmishers. I wonder why... Is it historical ? Did their tactics excluded skirmishing?
    Casse have Imannae, Sweboz have Youths, nearly all other, except steppe factions, have some sort of light militia javelinmen. I know Aedui and Arverni can recruit Gaeroas, but they are javelin-throwing spearmen, not skirmisher infantry.

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    Default Re: no gallic skirmishers?

    While I'm not an expert, I think the Celts got a soft spot for the cavarly, as such their standard skirmisher should be the 3-4 types of celtic cavalries present in the game
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    Default Re: no gallic skirmishers?

    i`m fan of historical accuracy, but i have limited info about celtic skirmishing during EB timeframe
    found something interesting on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Skirmisher#Celts
    so, Gauls and Galatians rejected javelinmen infantry because of "macho contempt" and "suffered several disasters due to the total lack of skirmisher"

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