I understand where you're coming from with wanting to use only a single type of unit, each of the melee units i've mentioned works well enough on its own, the ranged parts just make it a lot stronger, and hopefully that's close enough to what you asked to be helpful.
If you're finding your hoplites are countered and are dying too fast, you can switch them out for Hippikons, which are better general damage dealers, slightly less tanky per population, i find, but have a larger health pool and so live longer in the face of huge amounts of AoE damage.Īnother variant on the ranged death ball involves either all Gastraphetes, or a mix of everything from the archery range, since having 60 gastra shots fired at one enemy is. Having your ballistae/heleopolis grouped with some (maybe 20) of your hoplites and putting them on hold ground, moving them forwards bit by bit to support your front line is a good strategy, i find. less wasted damage in overkill, and pierce/crush damage compliment each other nicely). Sometimes I use the heleopolis advisor because i like AoE pierce damage (also mixing ballistae and heleopolis means 2 different fire rates, and 2 different damage types. Endless swarms of tanky hoplites with 4-8 ballistae sheltering behind them to target down larger groups of enemies or deal with buildings is my preferred strategy. Using King brennos as your age 4 advisor is. They're not as big, expensive or powerful as elephants or berserkers but they get the job done well enough. Not specialised against any unit means high damage and decent enough against everything, and also they do have that most lovely of things, splash damage. I wouldn't reccommend too many though as i don't find them to hold their own very well for a unit that costs 3 population.Īs mentioned above, another good unit to mass is the Champion. druid support is good, and carpentoms with their champion upgrade add a little bit of splash damage from the rear lines. You will need a market and a few trade caravans as well as farms to support spamming them, of course. You can mix in a light sprinkling of druids too, to buff damage and add AoE healing, and this is also a good time to use more or less any of the animal sacrifice buffs.Īnother strategy: use longswordsmen like legionaries. Celtic spearmen also get bonuses against buildings, and with overwhelming numbers they can chew through a base slowly and surely. Their spearmen are "cheap" in that they only cost food, and Celts get good farm upgrades meaning you can essentially get 20-25 farms, 10 barracks, and print an unending tide of spearmen to block the enemy and grind them down. Hopefully, that means I can offer suitable advice.Ĭelts have several core strategies they can use, depending on circumstances. Before the Romans, Celts and Greeks were my favourite two factions, now all three share a top spot, and though i've got all of them well geared, I play this game quite casually but can still do most legendary quests.
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