Celts vs Rome

[Phoenixguard09]

Hey everyone.  I've just been messing around with the Celts and the Eastern Empire in BI.  So naturally an AAR of a Custom Battle between a Celtic army and two Eastern Empire forces would be the perfect place to show off my stuff.   (BTW the enemy armies are  upgraded but not quite to the same extent as mine.  After looking at it, I probably went a little over the top.)  

First up, the disposition of the mighty Celtic army.  


Next the mighty archers of the Celts.  (I added them.)


These are the Hounds of Culann.  (Lombard Beserker models with my texture)


The Pictish Spearmen in a slightly irregular phalanx.  (Just a shieldwall cause I was sick of the schiltrom.  I really don't like the schiltrom formation.)  


The imposing line up of the Eastern Roman Empire forces.  


Greco-Roman Hoplites.  (Another new addition to Eastern Roman forces)


Greco-Roman Pezhetairoi.  (Notice the leopard skin trim.)


The Eastern Roman Cataphracts and Clibinarii.  Unfortunately on the other side of the field to the Celtic Spearmen.  


The Briton Huntsmen fire...


At the East Roman Archers...


And completely smash them.


The Hounds of Culann start to whip themselves into a killing frenzy.


The Cataphracts are getting close to my archers...


So the start shooting.  


The Hounds of Culann start to cleave through the Roman formations.


Even split apart, the Hounds wreak havoc among the Equite and Limitanei.


They leave a trail of destruction.


Absolutely out of control, the Hounds plow recklessly into the Pezhetairoi.


Having spread across the battlefield, the Hounds start to slay all that moves.  


One of the enemy generals is getting close with his retinue of Cataphracts.  The Noble Cavalry prepare to charge.  


The Pictish Spearwall sees of the Limitanei...


And the Greco-Roman Hoplites.  


The Hounds are probably in a bad position but they don't care.  


The Roman forces prepare for another charge.


The Hounds are surrounded.


The Noble Cavalry's charge hits home.  And kills one of the enemy generals.  


They proceed to run down the Cataphracts.


The Gallowglasses hit home...


And hurl abuse at the foe until they run away.


Eastern Archers are run down by the Noble cavalry.  


Even completely surrounded by Romans the Hounds keep swinging.  


The Roman forces accosting the Hounds are split thanks to the Gallowglasses in their rear.  


The Gallowglasses smash into the Limitanei and suddenly the Roman army breaks.  


This was too cool not to put in.  Looks like he threw him.  


And that's it.  Not the fairest battle.  But a lot of fun.  

[Jubal]

Poor ickle Romeykins...  

[Andalus]

Man, they must be embarassed to be defeated by the guys they thought they crushed in RTW

[Phoenixguard09]

Oh yes I'll bet.  

So anything on the textures of the units? Good? Bad? Ugly? Stop now you're hurting my eyes?

[Hopit]

well, celts blue "tattoos" looked little too sharp(?) they seemed to jump out of units skin

[Phoenixguard09]

Thanks Hopit, I was sort of trying to make them sharp as the old Hounds of Culann and the Vanilla Woad Raiders were too undefined, in my opinion they just looked like they had blue and purple smudges on them.  

But yes I agree, I went too far with that.  I'll smudge the edges a bit and see how that goes.

[Marcus]

Bear in mind that it was pretty much just war paint, so it would look smudgy.

[Phoenixguard09]

Bear in mind that it was pretty much just war paint, so it would look smudgy.

Oh yes but the old Hounds looked like they just dropped themselves in a vat of purple paint.  Twice.  Then grapped a big stick and a green cloak and ran off to war.  After eating some doughnuts.

[Hopit]

Bear in mind that it was pretty much just war paint, so it would look smudgy.

Oh yes but the old Hounds looked like they just dropped themselves in a vat of purple paint.  Twice.  Then grapped a big stick and a green cloak and ran off to war.  After eating some doughnuts.  

whats wrong with that? swedish vikings drank shamans piss after he had eaten fly agarics
now that's crazy

[Phoenixguard09]

Yeah that is nasty.  But you dont get the smell in Total War.  Although I move for a fear effect as others would just run away from the smell.  

And drinking piss, while probably not that good for you, doesn't really change your appearance, eating doughnuts and dunking yourself in purple paint vats does.