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Post by phippsy on Dec 28, 2016 22:57:50 GMT
Been doing some battles recently with a Late Imperial Roman West army of 2xCv, 2xLH, 2xBd, 3x4Ax, 2xPs and 1xArt. Point is really struggling to get them to win against anything (except in an out of era match up v Spanish II/39c Lusitanians with loads of light troops and 3Ax when invading Roman arable homelands) and even lost to them when invading northern Portugal.
What appears to happen is that when defending, the invader can match up and focus on the weaker elements wherever deployed (and normally some weaker elements regardless of invader), or when invading then the terrain dominace and suitable defender element terrain types really works against multi-arms. Seems the same for the Cartheginians when used them.
Any ideas? Phippsy.
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Post by timurilank on Dec 29, 2016 7:40:52 GMT
Been doing some battles recently with a Late Imperial Roman West army of 2xCv, 2xLH, 2xBd, 3x4Ax, 2xPs and 1xArt. Point is really struggling to get them to win against anything (except in an out of era match up v Spanish II/39c Lusitanians with loads of light troops and 3Ax when invading Roman arable homelands) and even lost to them when invading northern Portugal. What appears to happen is that when defending, the invader can match up and focus on the weaker elements wherever deployed (and normally some weaker elements regardless of invader), or when invading then the terrain dominace and suitable defender element terrain types really works against multi-arms. Seems the same for the Cartheginians when used them. Any ideas? Phippsy. Phippsy,
Becoming adept at using an LIR army is not quite as bad as learning the 150 “lance exercises” of the Mamluk cavalry. I like the cavalry advantage an LIR offers and would prefer to select the cataphract (3Kn) or clibanarii (4Kn) option over an artillery piece.
The extra PIP cost to move Art could be better used for a subsequent move of an element of LH.
However, the Art piece would be handy to clear enemy in Hilly terrain.
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