Forts

[kyle]

well .....
for impossible levels...
the AI pretty much got unlimited resources...
cuz .... later on in the game ...
you can see the AIs vasselling .... well .. i dunno if i spelled it right
anyways .... they are buying each other ......
while the cost ..... sometimes is as high as billions .....
it's kinda fun to play with the AIs
especially letting em get over 20 cities...
cuz they'll send a large wave of troops to you .....

if you have ever played against romans AI (well ..... the AI romans with 30 cities )
you would have a lot of fun ....
fighting with 3~5 of 16 squads consiting of all hastatii / trauii troops .....
it's ..... well.... really really fun ... i'd say ....

Are you sane lol?

[rural]

hastatii is the worst to fight with
truaii is a lil bit of bad ... but not as bad as hastatii
cuz ....
hastatii ..... they shoot ... well .. spears at you
and it's pretty much one hit death ..... you're front line will always die a lot .....
and since ..... hastatii .... pretty much can fight on any kind of environment ....
they are actually tougher than truaii ....

well ... i got the saves of using persians ....
getting only 34 cities
while the romans got all the rest of the cities ... ( 100 something ....)

you can just see the AI ....
massing like 12 or even 20 ...... 16- largest-squad (consists of truaii and hastatiii)
resting next to your land .... or even on your land
haha ....
well ... the most i can take ..... with Forts (but not with city wall)
is only 5 of those 16 largest-squad things ... in one term
and then i had to change the troops .......

[kyle]

what are the truaii?

[sum1won]

Triarii are some very solid heavy spears the romans can build.

[kyle]

for the fast reply

[rural]

welll
oops
i guess i spelled it wrong ....
haha ....
triaii is damn good against most other kind of troops on grassland ....

[honvedseg]

The Romans used the letter "i" to denote the plural, so a Triarius and his buddies would be Triarii. If a Gladiator is one who uses a gladius (a type of sword), and a Saggitarius uses a saggitus (bow), what is a triar-something-or-other? My Latin is lacking.

[Redpossum]

The Romans used the letter "i" to denote the plural, so a Triarius and his buddies would be Triarii. If a Gladiator is one who uses a gladius (a type of sword), and a Saggitarius uses a saggitus (bow), what is a triar-something-or-other? My Latin is lacking.

Dunno, I think Triarii meant they were in the third line, rather than being a form of their weapon.

The hasta, OTOH, was a spear, and I suspect the original weapon of the Hastati, before they became swordsmen.

The whole business is damn confusing. Principes appears to mean the guys in the first rank, but by the time of Republican rome, when we have detailed records, they were the second line....

Oh well, Polybius is rather inconsistent...