suggestions/ajustments for my maceadion alexanda army

[alexandathegreat]

hi everyome this is my army can i have tips and suggestions for my army. ive tryed elephants and they dont work well with my army
so plz nothing about elephants any thing else i could need. chears

craetan archers 6 bases LF, Superior, undrilled, unprotected, Bow, light spear 30pts
agrianian javerlinmen same as above but javelins 30pts
eastern light horsemen 6 bases LH average drilled unprotected javelins light spear 42pts
skytian horse archers 6 bases LH average undrilled unprotected bow swordsmen 60pts
greek mercanary cavarlary 4 bases CV superior drilled armoured light spear swordsmen 68pts
foot compainon 8 bases HF average drilled protected pikemen 48pts foot compainon 8 bases HF average drilled protected pikemen 48pts
hypasits 8 bases HF superior drilled protected pikemen 48pts
companion cavarly 4 bases CV superior drilled armoured lancers swordsmen 68pts
companion cavarly 4 bases CV superior drilled armoured lancers swordsmen 68pts
agema 4 bases CV elite drilled armoured lancers swordsmen 80pts
alexanda IC C-IN-C 80pts
clidious TC 35pts
pharmenion TC 35pts
philoutios TC 35pts

[babyshark]

Based on my experience I recommend that you strongly consider running one or more of your cav BGs with six bases. Probably the lancers rather than the light spear, as that allows the LS guys to evade reasonably. Six base cav BGs are enormously more durable than four base BGs.

Marc

[neilhammond]

I used the Macedonans at Britcon last weekend. They did well. My comment s would be:

The 2 units of LF fine - 6 cretans and 6 agrianian. Your cretans should be 36 pts, not 30 because they're superior.

Only take 2 TCs. Alex as an IC plus 2 TC can generally cover things.

You've taken too many cavalry - you have 16 incl the Greek cavalry. Max in the list is 12. Although the companions look nice, I'd advice only going for 2 units - probably a unit of 4 companians and a unit of 4 greek cavalry.

Your hypaspists point don't look correct. I quite like taking the hypaspits as 8 MF with lt spear (72 pts).

The points saved from less cavalry and fewer TCs should be used to buy some MF. MF offesive spearmen or Thracians are quite useful.

My approach is to buy as many infantry as possible. At 800 pts you can build an army of 14 BG. While most troops are average, most tend to have good POA factors.

The army needs to be deployed fairly compactly occupying about half the table. The light troops then cover the remainder of the table.

The really difficult opponent to beat is skirmishing / shooty cavalry armies. You really need to get the initiative and then go for lots of terrain.

Neil