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« on: June 01, 2008, 06:46:48 PM »
Strategy #1; Drop your legionaries. in the eat legionaries are at thier least effecitve - think Carrhae.
The chariots and light cav will slaughter your legions, get rid of them.
What you need is merc support and auxilia. The best way to take out the chariots is eles if you can get them, if not machine gun bow/siege them (spam archer auxlia, repeater ballista) or take gladiators.
My roman armies in the east consist of mostly cavalry, roman cav isn't that good but they'll fare reasonably against most eastern and egytian infantry.
Firstly, chariots, use the strateies above. your cavalry wing has to kep otu the way here, the chariots will slaughter them. The chariots should be taken out by a separate force, with your cavalry and lgiht infantry body at th back of the battlefield until they are gone. Once they have been taken out (and you WILL take casulaties uness you have merc elephants), move the remanants of your chriot killers back to your main infatry body. After that then the cavalry wing (which should be mimimum half your force) should simply be used as a single, crushing hammer, pummelling into the bowmen then pulling out before the melee gets protracted. They should be able to do this with few casulaties, advoiding the cumbersome phalanxes.
Finally, the phalangites are simple to beat, just put a linght to medium infantry meat shield up with the rest of your force, then smash them in the back.
That's my roman strategy anyway. Romans re OK against Egypt if you do it right, better than the poor greeks (phalxes in the desert V.S. chariots, ouch), but not as good as Carthage (elephants own chariots).
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