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[DanAngleland]

Pila are unsuitable for melee. During the Marian reforms there was a thing similar to the testudo where they'd bunch up and stick the pila out to deter cavalry, but for the most part they had separate divisions of spearmen. I believe it was similar during the migration period, but with far more spearmen.

After Marius though wasn't all the heavy infantry standardised, as in no spearmen? I thought that was the case. The hasta was used in the early centuries, but I've never read a definitive statement on when it stopped being used. I have a feeling the Triarii retained it after the Hastati began using the pilum (a form of pilum was adopted long before Marius, but he adapted it as Sir Prince mentioned as well as paying the legions, supplying their equipment and standardising it), but I can't be certain that my only source for that isn't Rome Total War 1!

I know the pilum wasn't suitable for melee but I have read about it being used as a make do spear at times. As long as you don't need to do a hard thrust with it and just poke at the enemy, it probably served the role well enough.

 

[The Meddling Monk]

Short answer: it can't. I'm watching heroofcarthage and legendoftotalwar, and the roman main line infantry craps itself in melee. Despite their magic doomstacks, they lose a lot of territory really early on and most of the former empire ends up being razed. That's a real immersion breaker for me.

Cool! Another HoC fan.

 

[Dodes]

It appears that your infantry got beaten up in the first Sassanid battle by enemy spearmen, who looked lightly equipped in the typical Persian style of big shield and little armour. Is that the case or was it the enemy missiles which hurt you most? I know this period is about the end of Roman supremacy, but if Roman infantry can't match what look like crappy infantrymen, how does a Roman faction avoid getting snuffed out entirely?

Yeah the Persian spear levies are pushovers, it's the Sassanid cavalry, especially their horse archers, which are the real problem.

Short answer: it can't. I'm watching heroofcarthage and legendoftotalwar, and the roman main line infantry craps itself in melee. Despite their magic doomstacks, they lose a lot of territory really early on and most of the former empire ends up being razed. That's a real immersion breaker for me.

Huh? I'm not sure what they have that is different, but cohorts are the best tier 1 infantry that isn't some kind of elite or specialized unit. The equivalent of cohorts are spear levies, which 1 on 1 could never beat a cohort. What units were they fighting?



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[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Huh? I'm not sure what they have that is different, but cohorts are the best tier 1 infantry that isn't some kind of elite or specialized unit. The equivalent of cohorts are spear levies, which 1 on 1 could never beat a cohort. What units were they fighting?

I was talking about comitatenses, not cohors. The ai only seemed to recruit comitatenses with a small compliment of crossbows and cavalry. Legendoftotalwar came across three stacks of 'tensy spears and killed them all with horse archers, melee'ing the last stack because he ran out of ammo.

 

[Dodes]

Oh that makes sense then.

 

[The Meddling Monk]

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Holy ship-blob Batman!

 

[DanAngleland]

Let's get some nice close up action screenshots if you can please Dodes 

 

[shadowarcher]

Spoiler: My character in DBZX

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Spoiler: A legend is born....and then abused for the next 3 saga's and reduced to a child's plaything

Spoiler: ...and a sneak peak of something me and a few people are working on

 

[Radalan]

Played Magicka with friends. Had ****ing blast. Fraps made it crash though. 

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Burned all the heretics and froze their crops.

 

[Elisianthus]

No meatspace in this thread, pal. I'm calling the cops.

**** you.

Demonstrating my pro screenshotting sills are not restricted by media:

(Apologies they're ****)

EDIT: Also, far too large and forgot to resize - I'll deal with this later. In the mean time, large image warning.

Germans = Blue, Russians = Brown.

Spoiler: Nearing the end of the German capture of Balta

Spoiler: This is what happens when your Flammenwerfer werfs flammen.

'S true - half the counters on the board are out of it. Well, I have leaders left to rally with...

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And some perspective, for maximum twatness, and to show off stack heights.

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[Baguette Eater]

Kasrkins! Yay

Also that Magicka Space Marine armor is ridiculously powerful

 

[QuailLover]

Spoiler: Club can't even handle me right now

 

[Krik]

How's the combat?

 

[rebelknight]

The game is a lot of fun actually.
Has it on ps4.

 

[Dodes]

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[The Meddling Monk]

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Is it just me, or do the faces of the two guys on the far left look flat?

 

[Sir Prince]

Last Friday we did Star Wars names, and decided that we would do Star Trek this Friday. It turned out to be oddly appropriate, complete with a pre-linebattle inspection where we had to quote our character. RIP Spock.

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[QuailLover]

How's the combat?

Pretty decent. The keyboard and mouse controls are quite good too.

Spoiler: He is not amused

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[Arcadius112]

Stealing the Taiidan carrier:

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I always hated the asteroids mission, but now it's even worse because my ships elect to simply fly into them, causing them to explode on contact(which makes my fighters or bombers completely useless.) The asteroids don't seamlessly break off into smaller ones, instead there's a delay between them and to top it all off, after about five tries, I finally got through it but lo and behold, the objectives didn't trigger so I have to start it all over again.

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[Temuzu]

I hate that asteroid mission, why would you even put something like that in the game.