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Originally Posted by Trumanator
One thing you could try is just recruiting the basic Alai legionnairres.
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The Alae Legionnaire unit is from MA Ermor. And while I don't mind losing units from a money point of view, I'd like to avoid it from a 'stopping to wait for re-enforcements' point of view. And think it'd be hard to recruit a load of them in the first few turns due to their 20res cost. Even max produciton scales will only allow you to recruit about 6 or so on turns 1+2. So hard to hit any sort of critical mass until close to turn 7. Even longer if they're taking heavy loses.
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Originally Posted by Executor
I'd go for the Leve, 8 gold 8 res. for the first couple of provinces, and puch in some cavalry on turn 3-4.
Avoid heavy cavalry, go for barberians, deep and beer tribe warriors/achers, light infantry and other indie types that can't hold the javelins.
As for archers,
Put 5 of them in front and order guard commander, they'll pull back while the archers keep fireing at them and chasing them down the battlefield.
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Thanks for the input Executor. Yeah, the 8gp 8r Leve's are certainly what I've had most success with during testing. They are quite effective once they hit a critical mass of 60+. But the only problem is that if I send 'just' 40 of them in, they'll take loses of 25%+, and then the next fight becomes a 50/50 or less.
Have used the 'place front and Guard Commander' tactic many times before. It helps a bit here, but not as much since the main problem is melee attrition, and not archer fire. Phasing-in the cavalry units helps as well, but I find them to be a bit fragile (again from an attrition PoV) since 12 protection 15 defence isn't an ideal mix. Would be better if the difference between the stats was more polarized.
Another annoying aspect is that the various tribe provinces result in the least attrition, but don't give you the Indy commanders needed for troop supply. Lots of little annoyances
Starting to think I can't avoid using some mage/cleric support
