Favorite Unit in Rome: Total War
Moderator: Thanas
Call me wierd for not going for an uber, overpowered unit, but my favourite unit is heavy infantry in all its forms. Regardless of the enemy, if I have enough heavy infantry to hold the enemy line for five seconds I will always win by an enourmous landslide, and few if any of the enemy will escape. Landser forever!
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Favorite infantry unit: I love the legionarries. They're just so damn adaptable. The only area where they are weak in is desert combat against calvary heavy nations. I once had a full stack legion of 10 late cohorts, 3 archers, 2 infantry auxillary, 4 standard calvary and my general and it got completely wiped out against a Parthian army; their damn archers and desert skirmishers exhausted my calvary number and stamina before they were wiped out and then the AI charged with all of their damn cataphracts into my right flank and then began the cascade.
Favorite calvary unit: Cataphracts. I would say chariots but god damn it, I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM. I usually require a 2-1 numbers when ever I face a large army with chariots just to win and even then, my units suffer horredenous casualties from those damn British and Egyptian chariots. They slice through my flanks like a hot knife through butter; my skirmishes and archers takes forever to inflict any casualties on them. Arg!!!!!
Favorite missle unit: Cretian archers or Pharoe bowmen, super long range and powerful. Two units with good terrain can easily annhilate and route several units.
I just recently tried to Total Realism mod and I must say, they did a really good job with the battles. Battles are much slower, take longer to finish, and units route less, even when attack from behind. I and very much love getting the principes and triarii much soon and in addition to that, triarii can stand toe to toe with standard heavy infantry and hold their line.
A side question; I'm trying to get the SPQR mod to work but every time I load a new campagin game, the game crashes. I've gotten a clean install of RTW with patch 1.1+1.2 and then I've installed the SPQR v2.0. Any ideas on what's wrong?
Favorite calvary unit: Cataphracts. I would say chariots but god damn it, I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM. I usually require a 2-1 numbers when ever I face a large army with chariots just to win and even then, my units suffer horredenous casualties from those damn British and Egyptian chariots. They slice through my flanks like a hot knife through butter; my skirmishes and archers takes forever to inflict any casualties on them. Arg!!!!!
Favorite missle unit: Cretian archers or Pharoe bowmen, super long range and powerful. Two units with good terrain can easily annhilate and route several units.
I just recently tried to Total Realism mod and I must say, they did a really good job with the battles. Battles are much slower, take longer to finish, and units route less, even when attack from behind. I and very much love getting the principes and triarii much soon and in addition to that, triarii can stand toe to toe with standard heavy infantry and hold their line.
A side question; I'm trying to get the SPQR mod to work but every time I load a new campagin game, the game crashes. I've gotten a clean install of RTW with patch 1.1+1.2 and then I've installed the SPQR v2.0. Any ideas on what's wrong?