Hier I am not great in multiplayer for Rome 2, but I think the Getae show up a lot because of two of their unique cavalry picks. First, Bow Horsemen are fairly cost effective. They are basically Armenia's Horse Archer unit for like 10-20 more cost but on a Barbarian roster. Only the Nomads, Bactria(mercenaries), and Parthia have more effective cheap horse archers and they have very different rosters. Second, I find Spear Horsemen to basically be the Levy Freemen of melee cavalry (not quite as cost effective). I have said it in other comments but despite their mostly terrible stats they are heavy and have an okay charge all for less than 600. Impact damage is real in Rome 2 especially against unbrace units and anything medium infantry weight class and below. They are just hard to trade effectively against when facing a Getae player of equivalent skill. I don't know how high they rank, but Getae's roster is only really missing two things. The lack mid-tier melee infantry and also have a general lack of cheap Javelins, besides that they have a decently cost-effective version of most other unit archetypes. Maybe that roster and being the only cool Dacian faction is why they see a lot of play. Then agian, maybe it is just YT submissions and our confirmation bias making us think so and they are played as much as any other faction.
Wow, I thought it was just too costly for the Iceni in the beginning but just wow. Like when the Getae was overloading one flank, I thought it was downhill from there
This is why you don't use your general as a direct combat unit early on... Getae threw the general away, then their units all shattered and it was just over.
Heir I think its time for a Getae campaign. Really tough start and super fun battle tactics. I've made a few Getae campaigns over the years and it is always super fun fighting hoards of barbarians with my falxmen.
I was really confused how the Iceni won, but looking back, the Getae lost their general early on and pumped money into their skirtmishers/archers. I think we were all led to believe these archers were making huge impact on the field constantly peppering, but they only had some 45 kills on average with a pretty high price. Meanwhile the Iceni had cheap slingers with 60,70, even 100+ kills. I think those slingers were the ones making big impact, not the Getae archers. Maybe if Getae took out the slingers they would've had a better chance, but Iceni had so much decent infantry it would've mopped up the Getae anyway, so I don't know if there really was any better strategy...
So did wardogs drop in price? I remember them being unpopular back in the day because their price meant you were basically sacrificing an additional infantry unit for a potential chance to take out skirmishers. But now I see Sol using them quite a lot
I think they upper tier of players have just learned how to use them better. I still see very little point in bringing them as I doubt, I could get a return on them (I'm bad). People also used to use them a lot to try and counter horse archers with back in the day, which despite being sort of how they were portrayed was way harder to pull off than it was to counter. Now that players are using them on skirmishers, I think to potential to get your money's worth is much higher. They big key is that the dogs don't have a unit banner. If you can distract your opponent and get them into expensive skirmishers, especially if they aren't split up correctly, you can get an absurd number of kills before they notice. The dogs have low hp of 20 but have 40 melee attack/defense, charge, and damage (36 base and 4 ap). Skirmishers, not counting heavy peltast type units (big shields usually), have at most 40 armor and 55 hp and it is usually much less. It won't take long for the dogs to chew through that especially if they don't notice them and do not fight back properly.
I feel like Iceni is missing something but I can't pin point what it is. Also Dacian spear horsemen are really good for the price, plus they have heavy mass which is devastating on the charge against infantries
So looking at this the Iceni apparently had numbers, but they did not take advantage of them. In the end it was actually the Getae who ended up always having local superiority. Combine this with their superior quality and well. It was not a close fight. I'm not judging btw, I wouldn't do any better. Let this stand as why you should not comment before the end of a battle.
@@Norwegianjesus13 but a glass canon. Because of a basically non existent armour. Every range units will shred them instantly. But if they get untouched late game in the fight then they are just gonna wreck basically anything
