Marius Reforms

This two words meant a lot for the last few days.

i send a spy to europe...saw the legionaires...got excited and sent an expedition force over. I was hit hard at the beach, not by romans but thracians. damn i never bother to take a look at them..and they ended up outnumbering me 2.5 to 1 in the battle. i drove off many units but gradually my cataphracrts were tired and my arrows were spent. i tried to withdraw but i wasn't given the option. so there is was...my entire expedition force massacred not by their intended targts but by a faction that i missed out. My mistake was not in underestimating my foes but my over confidence. i tot my squad could take anything, any size. i m kinda wary of barbarian forces now. as long as they outnumber me they can do lotsa dmg to my forces even though i kill even more of them. this kind of warfare is dangerous when supply lines r long. fortunately i can substain my war in Greece with my greek territories.

anyway i gradually landed 3 armies in Greece and drove my foes back and fought the legionaires in a few battles. THey are hard but the same rules apply. a mass flank charge with persian cavalry can still do dmg...not to forget abt cataphracts. Of course I had to choose my battlefields very carefully given the hordes of armored enemies. stone throwers still work...haha and i actually found a way to make them coordinate with horse archers. deploy them far apart. let the latter lead the enemy around while the former pound them. even if the enemy decide to focus the stone throwers anyway. a couple of coordinated charges will do the trick.

I was actually sick for the last two days. THks to the game...but the irony is that the game led to my recovery.