I think that the Thracians in Very Difficult going are very strong against any of the other armies in this group. On reflection, the only army that would stand a chance are the Macedonians who have 27 greek and thacian MF peltasts and 6 superior MF hypaspist too! A pity all the battles are now set. Our Indians will just have to struggle on and hope for a miracle in the other games!stockwellpete wrote:
Cheers Pers-Anders. My army just collapsed in 2 turns, didn't it? I thought that I had stabilised things a bit as well. Just shows what I know, doesn't it?There must be a way to fight the Thracians with the Indians but it is beyond me. My nellies and heavy chariots need open ground, the archers and MF infantry need rough terrain - yet if they fight separately from each other then they get destroyed (particularly the nellies and chariots). And then the Thracians have Greek Allies with hoplites to block the nellies and chariots in open ground anyway - and they also have what seemed like dozens and dozens of skirmishers and MF infantry to engage the Indian archers and other foot soldiers. The archers, given that there are so many of them, can only evade combat for a certain amount of time before they are forced to melee. I like to have a solid battle-line in my army too - with some superior troops at the centre of it, if possible. But this Indian army really is a powder-puff outfit in comparison. Sorry team.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Ps. Game 4 (open) Achmaenid (Europe) – hidde 15/50 vs Macedonian (UK&Eire) - ianiow 0/55. The Persians have lost the hill but have caused/are causing heavy shooting casulties on the Macs as they shoot and retreat in the face of the plodding pikemen.
