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Endoperez said:
The manual lists it as Velites, 2xAlae Legionnaires, and Hastati after PD 20+. Do they have something else in addition? Slingers?
I think any third types of units received in PD under 20 aren't included.
It doesn't sound that powerful, though. Lots of chaff, albeit with a slightly better morale than is usual, and some good infantry as well. Tien Chi gets 3 Footmen and 1 Imperial Footman after 20+, but that isn't good either. Marignon gets Pikeneers and Crossbowmans, and Halberdiers after PD 20+; that's much better IMO. They get ranged units AND infantry. Then there's Mictlan, which gets Jaguar Warriors!
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No, the Pythium PD doesn't sound strong at all. That's part of why I was puzzled at the result. Some slingers do show up so they are part of it. Mostly it's just that the defense is mostly shielded medium infantry, which is hard to kill, and they're not breaking. It could be that my opponents (Caelum, Mictlan, and Ermor) have fairly light units (Ermor already has lots of undead).
With AI positioning, an almost-all-ground force might be an advantage. The armies will normally meet in the middle and most archers have pretty mediocre aim at that distance. The Caelum archers are probably hurting their own force almost as much as mine, and I have a lot more infantry.
Incidentally, it's not that the forces are totally unbeatable by what the computer has. It's more that the computer now tries to send the minimum force to do the job and it's not sending enough. On more than one occaision the computer has split its force and what could easily have taken one province has gotten beaten attacking two. Even so, though, several times I'd given up a province for lost and then the computer failed even with a respectable force. Maybe I just got lucky on the morale checks. It would be nice to be able to test it.
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