![]() ![]() ![]() If you send them straight into meatgrinders you're gonna lose a lot of troops for very little benefit. Barbarians, especially Germanic tribes like the Suebi, have some brutal units but they're pretty squishy. Have a couple melee units to hold the enemy in place then charge them from the back/sides with better quality melee dudes. ![]() Gotta say, I really like the narrower focus of the campaign map!įlanking attacks. Later I also started a Caesar in Gaul campaign as Caesar, and it's going pretty well so far. Is it me, or are the Germanic units pretty crap? Am I missing something vital? My usual Barbarian strategy of "pelt them with missiles, while madly charging them with melee" doesn't seem to work at all with them, because Germanic Youths are simply terrible missile units. When we stopped after 5 hours or so, I was back down to my home province, beleaguered by Octavian's Rome and all of the Swiss, while he was slowly but surely expanding and had something like 4 settlements. We wanted to play Rome at first, but got a tiny little bit overwhelmed by all the territory. I am playing as the Marcomanni, he as the Iceni. We got rolled on our first attempt, then started over with the same factions, and this time, a little more caution. We started a co-op run of the new Imperator Augustus campaign, setting it to hard difficulty. ![]()
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