Rome: Total War: Difference between revisions

- The artillery you can bring with your units is next to useless against walls, but fuck if it doesn't kill enemy soldiers like the dickens. Scorpions on a hill can fire over long distances, with fair accuracy, and skewer whole columns at a time. Once they get experience - which they will quickly, if you don't let them die like a retar - they'll fire faster, further, and more accurately. You can have a battle half-over before the melee starts.

- When fighting Carthage, bring skirmisher - Velites, specifically. Use them against elephants. They're cheap, so it's worth losing a unit of them to cause to rampage a unit of elephant - especially when those elephants are still among enemy troops.

- You can try the manipular formation (line each of Velites, Hastati, Principes, Triarii, each falling back through the other when tired) if you're a masochist. I'd recommend Principes in the center, Hastati on the flanks, and Triarii in reserve, with Velites as skirmishers. Get archers if you can find them, because they'll outrange your Velites. Post-Marian, your units will homogeniz - while simultaneously growing in effectivenes - meaning that you can pretty much just build big lines and crush the hell out of them.