Hi all
Well - things have been a bit quiet from me recently as work has been super busy. Kanga is coming over to AMS tomorrow (0550 am
The blog posts will pick up as Ru and I report in - noticed my stats dropped to 62 visits last week - hmmm - guess I shoudl update the blog more often!
Reading: Chapterhouse: Dune
On the iPod: Victor Hugo, Salsa P'America
On the PC: Rome: Total War
On the DVD player: Lone Wolf and Cub
Weight: 68kg
Body Fat: 13%
Daily Cardio Burn: 1 hour (800 calories)
Average Running Pace: 13kmph
Amsterdam Temp today: 9 Degrees
Travel (two week projection): London, Palemero (Sicilly)
Over and out
Ohhhhh - WJ - please recommend a good book on Roman Tactics (I am gettin gcreamed in Rome: Total War as I have no idea what the core strengths and tactics of the various units is!)
posted by Neil at 10:06 am
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1 Comments:
Hmmm. You should be able to find plenty of articles online about Roman tactics.
As for which ones to use for your game, the problem is that this is an issue of game mechanics more than historical tactics - it's how the game has chosen to model the effects of Roman tactics that'll affect whether you win or lose.
Having said that, the generic advice for any Roman army is:
- you're usually strongest in infantry, weakest in cavalry (unless you have Gallic auxilliaries)
- you have better siege (catapults, ballista) and engineering (bridging) capabilities than anybody else
Roman armies historically did worst against mobile, bow-armed cavalry armies. The Parthians wiped out several legions that way: the infantry are too slow to catch the cavalry, and the Roman cavalry were no match. Romans did best against ill-disciplined barbarian foot armies (like Gauls, no matter what Asterix says), who played to their strengths - disciplined formations, and well-drilled soldiers (the two combining to allow Roman commanders the ability to rotate and bring in reserves, which almost no other army could).
The only other way Roman armies were defeated was by the sheer incompetence of some of their commanders - walking into an ambush at the Teutonberger Wald wiped out 3 legions, and the brilliance of Hannibal put paid to many a Roman army in the Punic wars.
Send your skirmishers in front to attrit your enemy. Put the cavalry on the flanks to try and hold off their cavalry (you won't defeat them usually). Send the legions crashing in at the biggest mass of enemy foot you can find.
5:30 am
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