EPTTotal War: Rome II - Page 30
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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aXa
France748 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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aXa
France748 Posts
(And yeah, i shamelessly edited my post :D) | ||
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SCkad
Scotland97 Posts
mine was playing scipii in rome, britain was pushing into italy from the north and had taken the segesta? (the one julii gets sent after first and just south of mediolanum) anyway their main army had been defeated at arriminium by my forces so i sent a detachment of 6 legionary cohorts (only bronze XP if that but silver weapons and armour) up to attack segesta since it was relatively undefended, so i'm besieging the town when an army comes down from the north but from around the mountains so that when i'm forced to withdraw i'm forced north with my back to the mountain. British forces continue to pursue and so i'm forced to take a fight of 600 legionaries against about 3k~ barbarians. Decide to make them pay as dearly as i can so i move my forces to the edge of the border up the hill hoping to fatigue them, sit in defensive square and wait for them to come to me, its so effective by the time the battles over i've lost about 100 men but routed the enemy army and killed at least half of it. to quote my captain from that fight "courage and honour still count for something in war" | ||
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Doko
Argentina1737 Posts
Basically there's a 10k army to my 2k or something like that defending a city. So I tell to myself. Can't win this one so hopefully I'll inflict so much damage I'll be able to retake the town relatively quickly. The germans had this unit that once it went berserk in town defense they just would not stop killing no matter what. I put some cheap units on tank duty with berserkers flanking. Sure enough the enemy breaks the gates charges in and engages my units. I warcry the zerkers and they instantly start killing everything in sight, 5 seconds later the enemy general is dead and my berserkers are on a rampage amisdt the chaos by the gate the enemy army panics and flees. Unfortunately the other entrances to the city are breached and the berserkers give 0 fucks about this and decide that chasing the fleeing units is more fun! My remaining units make a final stand in town square but are wiped out in a slow fight, with almost no troops left at the plaza..the berserkers return and start shitting on everything in sight but the odds are impossible and end up dying taking 4/5 of the enemy army with them. Some turns later I retake the city (with you guessed it, berserkers!). Best unit ever! | ||
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Zealos
United Kingdom3575 Posts
I just used entire armies of them and lost basically nothing against 4 stacks of full armies. | ||
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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aXa
France748 Posts
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TSORG
293 Posts
On August 31 2013 12:24 cLAN.Anax wrote: One time, I had about 300 Romans face off against a thousand enemies (forgot the faction). Abused the pause feature, as well as tree cover, lol, but eventually came out victorious and felt pretty good about using superior tactics. If somewhat underhanded ones. ^_^ most epic battle i ever had was on Rome Vanilla (Well i had 1 more epic battle on MTW1 but i kinda cheated to make that one happen). I had 1 legion of gold (9) chevron romans. some cav, some heavy infantry, come archers. And i thought it was time to invade egypt which was the other superpower left in the game. So i was sieging some city and then their entire army descended on me. I fought off the initial army relatively easy, but their reinforcements just kept coming. They had alot of elephants as well. At the end my entire legion was down to 10% of its original strength, but i fought off about 20k egyptions (5 full stacks on huge formations). It is suffiecient to say that 2 crossed swords marked the spot of that epic battle for a long time lucky for me though, the armies came 1 after another for some reason, so after each fight it went back to campaign map, the defeated army retreated and another one came out of nowhere (FoW). This was my saving grace because it meant my missile troops replenished their arrows and javelins and some of my units retrieved some wounded units. sadly my invasion of egypt came to a grinding halt since that was my spearheading army and they were supposed to conquer a beachhead for the rest of the units to land safely etc. | ||
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TigerKarl
1757 Posts
So that meant upgrading your front castles, focussing on fighting defensive river battles and so forth. That one time i had a general defending a castle until every single of my soldiers except for him was dead and he kept holding that castle on his own for 10 or more years, completely on his own and the arrow shooting towers of that castle. He got the most absurd stats and attributes. He was a true hero. | ||
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SCkad
Scotland97 Posts
On August 31 2013 19:34 aXa wrote: Is the steam group already created ? I'd like to join it, but can't find it in the OP. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar have fun | ||
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aXa
France748 Posts
Many thanks | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
My favourite two strategies I have done are firstly in Rome when I realised that if you sieged the opponent's castle with 3 armies, he would only attack one per turn, which meant you could retreat with that one and keep the other two sieging. It meant I could take down an entire castle full of people with 3 peasant units mwhaha. Secondly, in Shogun 2 I was dying all the time on legendary and found it basically impossible with a reasonably challenging starting position like Takeda. I however worked out that if you select time limited battles then you can stand around with your fast cavalry or general unit, and just run around the battlefield until the timer is up, meaning the attacker (them) will lose >:D. It took a long time even with max speed, however it was worth it because with about 20 of those in the campaign in important times I was able to win . | ||
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SCkad
Scotland97 Posts
On September 01 2013 08:36 sc4k wrote: For me the most enjoyable thing was working out how to exploit the AI of the cpu. Other people complain that the AI is bad but when you crank up the difficulty to max and you refuse to read any guides or expose yourself to the gameplay of other people in any way, your wits really are tested and you have to work out cunning strategies. My favourite two strategies I have done are firstly in Rome when I realised that if you sieged the opponent's castle with 3 armies, he would only attack one per turn, which meant you could retreat with that one and keep the other two sieging. It meant I could take down an entire castle full of people with 3 peasant units mwhaha. Secondly, in Shogun 2 I was dying all the time on legendary and found it basically impossible with a reasonably challenging starting position like Takeda. I however worked out that if you select time limited battles then you can stand around with your fast cavalry or general unit, and just run around the battlefield until the timer is up, meaning the attacker (them) will lose >:D. It took a long time even with max speed, however it was worth it because with about 20 of those in the campaign in important times I was able to win .son. i'm disappoint instead of being the complete badass general who takes out the entire enemy army your the one who runs away until they get tired? SHAMEFUL DISPRAY on a serious note though shogun was fun but FotS less so because guns would cause ridiculous damage and so you ended up with hilariously one sided fights. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6212 Posts
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
On September 01 2013 08:49 SCkad wrote: son. i'm disappoint instead of being the complete badass general who takes out the entire enemy army your the one who runs away until they get tired? SHAMEFUL DISPRAY on a serious note though shogun was fun but FotS less so because guns would cause ridiculous damage and so you ended up with hilariously one sided fights. haha have you played shogun 2 on legendary it's a nightmare!!!! | ||
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
On September 01 2013 09:46 sc4k wrote: haha have you played shogun 2 on legendary it's a nightmare!!!! Pff. Please. 9 turns. Kidding. No way in heck I could do that. I'm waaaay too defensive and cautious. X-D | ||
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Onioncookie
Germany624 Posts
On September 01 2013 09:50 cLAN.Anax wrote: Pff. Please. 9 turns. Kidding. No way in heck I could do that. I'm waaaay too defensive and cautious. X-D Wow WTF!!! Cant even hold 3 provinces on legendary XD | ||
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Sermokala
United States13935 Posts
The whole campaign was crazy as shit. Fighting full roman legions with 6 different types of infantry and no more then 1 of the same non infrantry unit was crazy hard but crazy fun. will probably do the same for the start of rome 2. Hannibal barka represent. | ||
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