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[Puzzlemaker]

was a fan of vanilla war dogs.  A few of them launched into a weak flank and theyd win the fight.  I also noticed it was the human deaths that reduced the squad.  Dead dogs respawned so you could pull the humans back and the dogs kept going

I've noticed that as well. No clue how effective an all-dog army would be, but at the very least it'd be an cheap and silly way to wear down enemy armies. Assuming that you could release the hounds from any distance, of course. I never used them myself...

Hilariously effective.  Dogs do a ton of morale damage, so against an inexperienced army it turns into a rout.  OH GOD THE DOGS

[Tack]

As for berserkers, yeah, but the guys who spin around and send urban cohorts flying are about as historical as the incendiary pigs. They are a lot more fun than incendiary pigs though!

Uh... Don't wanna be 'that' guy, but incendiary pigs were a real thing.
Yeah, the romans discovered that the sound of pigs squealing seriously terrified elephants, so in order to make the pigs squeal near the elephants, they came up with the brilliant plan of covering them in tar and lighting them on fire. This also had the added benefit of them being on fire.

... PETA wasn't created until much, much later.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

At least the survivors of the engagement got to eat pork and perhaps bacon.

Has anyone pre ordered this btw?

[scriver]

Pigs were used as an elephant countermeasure, yes, but they generally weren't set aflame. Just boring old pink swines.

[Drakale]

I can imagine a grizzled old veteran sitting atop his horse stoically as a herd of mounted elephants charge his unit, looking at his second and hoarsely commanding

"Light the pigs Decanus"

[Mephansteras]

Arcani! And I found a use for them, or at least the AI found a use for them on me when I was playing Parthia or the Seleucids or somebody: turns out they murder horse archers if you don't watch out.

Not that it really ever comes up, playing Rome.

Other than that, they're... basically gladiators I suppose.

As for berserkers, yeah, but the guys who spin around and send urban cohorts flying are about as historical as the incendiary pigs. They are a lot more fun than incendiary pigs though!

I really liked using the Arcani. Made great flankers, and were quite powerful when used properly. Also horribly inaccurate, historically, but...still fun.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I liked to make stacks of gladiators for the hell of it.

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Only after gold weapon/armor and temple bonuses stacked to brim, Scipii was especially good thanks to some temples if I remember right.

1/10th the numbers? Sure, I'll attack that, says the AI.

[loose nut]

In one of my playthroughs as a Roman faction (Brutii, maybe?) I'd maintain a half stack of gladiators and send them up north to chew up the armies Britannia or Gaul would send at me, sort of a "death in exile"/ Night's Watch kind of thing.

[Silent_Thunder]

In one of my playthroughs as a Roman faction (Brutii, maybe?) I'd maintain a half stack of gladiators and send them up north to chew up the armies Britannia or Gaul would send at me, sort of a "death in exile"/ Night's Watch kind of thing.

You must have been Julii. Gauls/Bretons were thier problem. Brutii went after the Greeks, while the Scipii went after North Africa and the rest of the Mediteranian.

[loose nut]

I'm pretty sure not – as Julii you tend to outright conquer the barbarians (well, I'm doing a Julii playthrough now that's pretty strange – I've got half of Greece and Halicarnassus and nothing north of Lemonum and I've been almost entirely following senate's orders) – in the playthrough I'm recalling I think I had been given the odd task of conquering something north of the Alps so I did, and being Brutii or Scipii I had no further interest in those poor barbarian provinces so I just had troops up there defending the one city.

[Sharp]

In one of my playthroughs as a Roman faction (Brutii, maybe?) I'd maintain a half stack of gladiators and send them up north to chew up the armies Britannia or Gaul would send at me, sort of a "death in exile"/ Night's Watch kind of thing.

You must have been Julii. Gauls/Bretons were thier problem. Brutii went after the Greeks, while the Scipii went after North Africa and the rest of the Mediteranian.

Pah, you have to conquer everyone! Playing as Scipii was easiest for me as I managed to get Massila and Appolonia fairly quickly to bottle in my Roman counterparts, in the end the Brutii had to go north to fight the Dacians and the Julii were stuck spending most of the time trying to siege Patavium, by the time the Civil War started the Julii only had like 3 extra territories but the Brutii were more successful and had like 7 or 8.

Looking forward to the new total war game, although some of the gameplay videos seem a bit arcade like

[Mephansteras]

All this talk is making me want to play RTW again.

[krisslanza]

All this talk is making me want to play RTW again.

I know that feeling.

Parts of RTW I like over M2 or S2, but then others... not really.

Also Amazon Total War is fun. For me. I'm always annoyed they just won't make actual Amazon faction in Rome 2.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I'm always annoyed they just won't make actual Amazon faction in Rome 2. IN ANYTHING

FTFY. Mods of certain paradox games excluded; there's been absolutely zero effort at giving South American natives a fair shake. It's almost to the point where I think developers exclude it on purpose..

[scriver]

And as the Mayan god of the dead, I am sure you are completely unbiased in your wish to cause Total War and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands all over the continent