CRETAN ARCHEERS

Greek Medium Hopilite Cavalry

If they are Cretan archers, where are their shields?

Triarii!!!

RRRRRREEEEEEE PARTHIANS GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*blocks your path*

SCRAPPERS READY

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't that game have units of gladiators? How daft is that

Yup it had.

FUCK YOU

Dude, I'm not going into battle dressed like this.

*dies from arrow barrage since foot archers out shoot horse archers*

Saxon KEEL

>bringing enough foot archers to beat 19 units of horse archers without knowing in advance what the other guy was bringing
Yeah no.
An army with that amount of footarchers is gonna get stomped by just a few conventional heavy cav units. Aka not happening.

>those sexy seax-style swords

Best general army setup:
2 light cav, 2 heavy cav, 10 heavy infantry, 4 archers, 1 artillery, 1 heavy cav general

Best cav-based army setup:
10 horse archers, 4 heavy cav, 4 light cav, 2 artillery (keep artillery far apart and chill, wait to make enemy split to take them out)

>main advantage is mobility
>some brainlet commanders tries to use them to hold ground

>Buy Rome II
>the launch actually goes ok for me, just a bug here and there
>Romans are neat, but decide to play as Gaul next
>decide to turn speakers and sound system to 50% volume
>the Romans were mild in battle
>click on my first unit in battle
>OU' HORSES LUUUUUUV BLAAAAD!
>SOOOOOOOOOORDS!!
>WE HUNGER FOR BLOOOOOOD, AND BAAAAAATTLE!!!

It was what I always wanted

Don't you mean
>seaxy

Comfy

YARI MEIJI

>ywn conquer the known world with pink pajamamen for real

and I thought /pol/ was a real danger to Veeky Forums... but it's the /gsg/ autismos crossposting. keep to your containment board

total war isn't /gsg/ you shitter.

Seaxes are for sex

Triarii?

TRIARII!

youtube.com/watch?v=HmM_rlnYnmw

>dissing the triumvirate

TRIARII

TRIARII!!
>this guy gets it

MY LORD

/gsg/ and /twg/ are the reason Veeky Forums exists you dumb cunt.
End your life.

"and the Khan continued to wax strong. And he prepared to attack Constantinople from the quarter of the Bulgarians. And the kings of the Franks heard of this, and they gathered together and they bet Batu in battle, and the broke him and made him flee." - Bar-Hebraeus

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If only we were as swift as the angels

Haaah
I remember going against 20 stack during the civil war
During that time i already had like 8 first cohorts with 3 silver experience
And those damn Armenians were knocking at my door

>tfw 5fps battle

WE'RE BESIEGED!

>next turn

MAN THE DEFENSES!

>next turn

SETTLEMENT UNDER SIEGE, SIR!

TAXEIS EXITE!
LOCHOS, KATA TACHOS!

My fellow celt.
I too, thirst for glory, formations are for fags. Duel me roman manlets

GALATIANS!

PAN-TO-DO-PHOI
P H A L A N G I T A I

>Just having a ridiculous amount of archers and a single spearman unit to bother cavalry
It wasn't good but man it was fun

*Blocks your path*

Umm dear i hate to tell you this but can you fuck off

I would have checked these out but the amount of DLC and the fact that it needed a sequel a year later really puts me off.
I don't really have the space to bother pirating it either.

While Rome's armies were usually made up of professional soldiers, generals would sometimes be forced to levy troops from the local population. Needless to say, since gladiators were highly trained fighters they would often be pressed into service under these circumstances. This applied especially during the empire's numerous civil wars, when rebel generals would often bulk up their armies with every slave, peasant and gladiator they could get their hands on.

Wealthy Romans would often have a bodyguard of gladiators, or ex-gladiators. Since, as slaves, gladiators had no legal rights and relied entirely on their master's goodwill, gladiators could be extremely loyal to masters who gave them a privileged life (and a well trained gladiator could often live far better than the common citizen). If their master happened to be a legionary officer then it's possible (though not likely) he might bring along a squad of gladiators into the army. Octavian is recorded to have captured Mark Anthony's personal troop of gladiators, who had fought with extreme bravery for their master.

the tl;dr is that while it wouldn't be normal to deploy gladiators in a traditional Roman field army, they were highly trained fighters so there were obviously times when generals would be forced to utilise them.

you don't need to buy the DLC if you don't want to play the faction user.

The lack of playable Chaos in the base game was a little annoying, but you really don't need the DLC in order to enjoy W:TW.

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>tfw to autistic to play evil and edgy factions
I can't even play as the lizardmemes because their endgame is genociding the world.

See, that puts me off. I grew up on Rome and Medieval 2, those games got one awesome expansion pack that was seperate from the main game and that was it.

>rome
>awesome expansion pack
Alexander was a standalone that people used for the executable.
Same with kingdoms.

I was talking about Barbarian Invasion, I forgot Alexander even existed.

then play as the Empire or the Dwarves

> their endgame is genociding the world.
perhaps this is the only merciful end for the warhammer world

That's what I have been doing and mixing it up with the high elves. Those high elf spearmen animations are beautiful.
Oh and mods.
tons of mods

Honestly my favorite faction in rome 2

WTF, Rome 2 got a DLC after 3 years of nothing last week.

Yeah, I just found out tonight. Looks like they basically ported over the armor/weapon skins from Attila and made some slight campaign adjustments to charge 20 bucks or some shit.

Faggit

>be me , wallachian
>Getae DLC comes out
> kewl, WE WUZ TARABOSTES AND SHIIIIET
>can't wait to fuck niggers with my falx /sica melee units
>check the roster
>fuckton of shitty spear units , one shitty falx unit and a random basic horse archer unit
>wtf.carving
>be surrounded by steppe horseniggers, celtniggers and macecucks who all declare war on you after less than 20 turns
FUCK YOU CA NIGGERS

I actually like the High Elves the most, but I already finished a Mortal Empires long campaign with them so I've moved on to their edgy cousins.
Chaos was my favourite faction in the first game though.

No u

Kys

big bird is kewl

Whoop whoop

moddb.com/mods/bronze-age-total-war

Show me those mods!

>Bringing a general

>t. The Black Prince

you better delet this shit, nigger.

Veeky Forums af

PRIN-COH-PEH

HOP-LEE-TAYS!

>The Greek Cities will never conquer the world under the banner of Zeus's Lighting Bolt.

Reported btw

>alfonso the cuckold
>maximum authority, maximum dread
wish i still had the screen

What mod?

Is 0 ad fun?
Never played it and it kind of looks interesting

you need to go back

You can kill a hundred thousand men, but if your wife sleeps around once, you will always be known as the cuckold.

KYOTO PORICE

Roma Surrectum.

A new version has been put up recently btw

It is but programmed like shit. It all runs on like one core so gets bottlenecked hard during large battles.

More like
*blocks literally any historical TW game*
Fuck CA for catering to the warhammer gayboys

Aren't they releasing a danelaw game?

BALEARIC SLINGERS

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>those unskinned unit models

1 general, 4 archers, 4 cavalry, the rest infantry (whatever's available). You need two cav on each of the flanks in order to properly screen the infantry

PROUD SONS OF ROME.