Final Army Composition

[quintusvarus]

I couldn't find the thread Ian started on this, but wanted to put my ha'penny worth in.

2 Militia at 22/23
3 velites at 13
1 Hasti at 19
4 principii at 22, 23, 25, 26
3 triarii at 19, 20 and 20
4 auxilliary infantry at 8 - 11
4 legionaries at 9,9, 11 and 14
2 archers at 14
2 scouts at 13 & 14
1 nobles at 15
2 auxilliary cavalry at 16 and 17

All had had at least one armour upgrade and one of the Principii units had the enhanced standard which seemed to make them more or less invincible! My primary problem was I attempted to try and keep types to rough historical contexts, hence several units had little time to acquire levels of ability, etc, and became liabilities in difficult battles. I have suggested in another thread, and I still think it would be great if it could be carried through that there were some means of promoting units, e.g militia to auxilliary, principii to legionary, etc. Any chance Ian? However, as the segmenta style of armour is not widespread until c.100AD, principii work very well as late Republican, early imperial legionaries.

Quite unrelated - does the Celtic campaign seem much easier than the Roman? I am going through pretty well at very hard with only one game dropped to hard thus far, although admitedly I'm not very far in yet (I've just completed the sack of Rome).

[tora_tora_tora]

I agree, Celtic campaing is realtively easier than Roman campaign.
And, Celtic campaign maps are in some cases more cavalry friendly, I guess.

There are several factors.
Celtic army's heavy cavalry is Noble, and Noble is somewhat better than Roman Auxiliary Cavalry.
Celtic archers' unit type is not archer but skirmisher, and do not matter whether they shoot from in the woods.
Veterans are more tough than Legionaries, their concuss value is part of the reason.

But due to celtic army's strongness, Roman campaign is such interesting puzzle to solve.

[pipfromslitherine]

As a note, the forthcoming patch includes a way to dump out all your (more detailed) army info. Which should help these kinds of threads.

Cheers

Pip