Non core force support units?

miki · Post by **miki** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:29 pm

Hi gents,

Will you play the battles only with your core force or will exist the possibility to have some support units attached for specific battles? Something along the lines of the Steel panthers support units that you can purchase prior to each battle in campaigns? And, in that case, will the support units be related to denarii or fame or what?

Gracias
Miki

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:31 pm

You can command up to 32 squads, though only 20 may take part in a single battle. I guess the answer is yes, you can have support units that are only used in key battles

miki · Post by **miki** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:42 pm

Thanks Iain

Thats a quick response.

BTW, which will be unit scale? Will it be "companies" or "squads", a bit abstracted as in the 4X series? Or will they be cohorts? When playing CoW or Sparta-GOT I imagine that each man in a squad represents 10 men, so each units is more or less cohort size (or equivalent). This way I get a strong feel of miniature wargaming... and play greater battles for free then!

Gracias
Miki

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:01 pm

At around a 9 or 10 to 1 scale each squad would represent a chort of 440 men - at least I think that's how many were in a cohort?

miki · Post by **miki** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:29 pm

Hi Iain,

The scale almost fits perfectly.

Marian and Caesar cohorts were made of 480 men. Each cohort made of six centurias of 80 men.

Later, in the second half of the first century, the First Cohort have 800 men, divided in only five centurias. Cohorts 2-10 are maintained at almost 500 men. At this time they created a Legionary Alae of 120 horse mounted legionaries. That gives 5.500 men for a full Imperial Legion, iirc.

Saludos
Miki

qrwin10 · Post by **qrwin10** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:24 pm

thats a lot of soldiers (lol)
Some questions:

1) But is there some reinforcements in a battle??

2) If you lose a game will all dead soldiers return or nothing?

3) Do this game have the same gameplay as Rome total war or Spartan or is it a new gameplay?

qrwin10 · Post by **qrwin10** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:30 pm

(sorry i forgot some)

4) Can you place your army befor the battle (like spartan or troy)

5) When there is battle , can you run from the battefield???

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:24 am

1) No reinforcements - all troops start deployed though you can hold back a reserve and maps are much bigger than previous games.

2) We did have it that when you lost you had to replace your men and fight on, but you gained experience, but this has changed. Now ehen you lose, it forces you to refight the battle. There are some battles where teh objective is not to win, merely to survive for a period of time or kill X enemy before you die.

3) The gameplay is different to both. There is no campaign map, insted a series of linked missions. The closest comparison is a game called Shadow of the Horned Rat that came out 5-10 years ago.

4) Yes you can deploy your troops before battle, but you can now also give waypoints for them to follow once teh battle starts. These can be overriden in battle by issuing new orders.

5) You can run away, but this is really only a way to exit teh game as you must complete each mission to continue.

pyros · Post by **pyros** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:55 am

iainmcneil wrote:
3) The gameplay is different to both. There is no campaign map, insted a series of linked missions. The closest comparison is a game called Shadow of the Horned Rat that came out 5-10 years ago.

Yes almost 10 years ago.... We are getting old, Iain.... LOL

There is also another German game that is close to Hornet rat but I don't remeber the name...(I am getting old, remeber?)