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Reaper Ben

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(14 hours later... My bad!)

Alright! So, my army would consist of:

10 Urban Cohorts
4 Legionary First Cohort
4 Triarii
2 Light auxilia

Seems pretty basic, but here's what I would do. I would place the UCs in two lines of five at the center of my formation. I would place the LAs ahead of them. Two LFCs in columns on each side of the UCs and two Triarii behind each column. LAs are in spread formation and flee.

I would walk slowly until the LAs took fire from the catapults , then I would charge up until the hill. My infantry would then walk, except for the LAs who would rush up the hill and stay stationed, while attacking the UCs. By doing so, they would either take your archers' attention, use up some of your UCs spears, or draw out your cavalry. Either way, you can't let them go unnoticed. While you deal with them them, I'll have the rest of my army walk up the hill (Like this, they will be either Fresh or Warmed Up). I'll have my UCs rush your UCs during the last yards and try to engage them before too many spears are thrown.

By then your catapults and archers are useless as this is close combat. My LFCs would attack the side of your UC formation (When both of our UCs lose men, their ranks will become smaller, hence allowing my LFCs to make a smal flanking move). The LFCs will also give moral boosts to my men, ensuring they will stand up to your UCs. The Triarii behind each LFCs are there to keep your cavalry in check. Granted two units of Triari can't take two units of HC but whenever they'll become engaged, I'd just devote either a LFC or UC regiment to help them.

What do you think? I'm writing this late at night, so I don't know if it sounds coherent or not. =*

22-May-2012 06:45:07

Englishkid62

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Simulate battle:


I, with my previous said formation, is on the hill. You're walking slowly towards me.

You will get initial fire from from 4 Heavy Ornagers, but once Urban cohort is in range, they will be fired on using fireball mode. Two Heavy Ornagers on Urban cohorts and two Heavy Ornagers on one LFC.

Depending on how far your light auxilia is away from the main bulk of the forces, I may decide to chase them away with Heavy Cavalry so they fire on Cavalry and not Urban Cohorts. If they're far away from your main bulk of infantry, I will send 2 cavalry units to chase. If they're close, I'll put Urbans on testudo until your infantry gets close and archers will spread and fire on light auxilia.

Once your urban cohorts engage mine, my cavalry is free either to chase light auxilia indefinitely for the duration of the battle, or flank spearmen from behind. Or the unit that is most beaten up by Heavy Ornagers. Another solution to your light auxilia is ignore them entirely after the infantry has engaged and cavalry will concentrate on flanking. Once I deem your light auxilia no longer a large threat, Heavy Ornagers will retreat to either pounce on routing forces or is front line gets ugly, indiscriminate bombardment.

22-May-2012 11:29:49

Reaper Ben

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Reaction to attack.

When you fire on my UCs I'll have to start making them run, but it'll probably not drop their endurance too far down. I'd say warmed up or lower. As for the LAs they are close enough to the UCs that if I saw your cavalry move, they could catch up before your cavalry would reach the LAs. Fire balls are extremely imprecise and can hit your own men, so I'm not really afraid fo that. As for the testudos, it actually benefits me as it take some time to "unlink" the men and put them back in their original formation.

Your position is in a corner. My line spreads the whole length of this corner to prohibit your cavalry from moving. That's why I have the Triarii at the sides, so that I can stop the cavalry relatively fast.

22-May-2012 15:57:29

Englishkid62

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Starting to run as soon as you are in range of Heavy Ornagers can be quite a long way. But regardless, that's probably what I would have done too. But if you start to run I will switch to normal mode and none of this fireball stuff.

If your LAs are close I won't send cavalry after them.

From the way and the distance I positioned my Heavy Ornagers, they won't hit my own men until in the latter stages of the battle.

I only use Testudo if you insist on using LAs to wear down my UCs. If your UCs are running it means your LAs have little time to wear them down and thus I don't mind not being in Testudo. And since you're running, I will need to be unlinked.

That's the thing with Triarii. Notice how one one side of my formation I have one UC behind another UC? The one behind can, after throwing spears, flank or bog down your Triarii on one side. I can send 3 Heavy Cavalry units to flank one unit of your Triarii, 2 on the side and one on the rear. The thing is, you don't know which side I will commit this size of my cavalry force until you've already engaged my infantry.

23-May-2012 00:15:12 - Last edited on 23-May-2012 00:15:42 by Englishkid62

Reaper Ben

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Sorry for taking so long to answer! X(

And welcome to Thread!

I'm confused. I thought that my whole infantry line covered the whole angle of your corner, so that your cavalry could not come forth from behind your soldiers without having a head-on collision with my men.

24-May-2012 23:43:57

Englishkid62

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You do know that the deployment (the part of map you can actually deploy your units) is smaller than the outer parameters of the actual map? There will still be room for my cavalry to move out without disturbing my infantry lines. But if you have 10 Urban cohorts designed to stretch out the cover the whole line, your lines would be quite thin indeed and might create opportunities.

26-May-2012 13:44:02

Reaper Ben

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Oh... :@ I thought you had gone completely to the end of the map (Where the red line are the boundaries)... That clears things up! :P But then, that means my strategy is no longer applicable, as I had based it on the fact that you were "landlocked".

27-May-2012 04:17:24

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