Rome vs Boii - Multiplayer Battle - Total War Rome 2 

mmmmmmmmmmmmm BOII

Can you explain further what you mean? It's an interesting opinion 🙂

@@jonaswielandt6731The best way for Rome to counter barbarian infantry is to use "meat shield" units like Hastati to absorb the barbarians' charge, then immediately move their higher quality infantry in behind them while the barbarians are still caught up with the Hastati. This not only weakens them a bit, but more importantly it stops the barbarian units from getting a charge... The problem is, if you just throw your hastati away and don't capitalize, they'll get chewed up while doing relativey little damage, and then your quality Roman infantry is going to get charged and lose.

haha i like it!

Rome are meant to be top tier but this many years down the line I am 50/50 on it. If you're in a multiplayer battle and Rome are on your side, you've lost xD and there aren't many good showings in replays either. I used to solely blame the player but hmmm? Makes you wonder. (It was pre-marian reforms so that affects it)

Rome is overpowered as heck, let a Roman player spam legionnaire cohort or evocati cohort and you are almost guaranteed to never beat Rome. This battle, the Roman player was playing with one hand tied behind his back because pre Marian Roman army is beatable but not imperial Roman army.

The Rome player lost because his pre-Marian legionnaires got caught unbraced by heavy horse and gallic heavy swords. Trying to counter charge barbarians instead of using Rome’s excellent charge defense is always a recipe for disaster. Rome, even pre-Marian Rome, is ridiculously strong in this game. Some people haven’t figured out how to play them however

Legion, pike, hoplite spam has been frowned on by Rtw2 community tbh. Also matches like this have rules, they probably decided on sticking to the republic era of rome.

I swear most of romes units don't have expert charge defence

@@RoyalRegimentofScotland they don't but getting caught unbraced/on the move by barbarian heavy horse and swords is always worse than taking the charge as Rome

@Farley Sweatman Ah I see what you mean

@@farleysweatman4417 You are not incorrect, but you need to turn off fire at will to get the bracing bonus. So, you would lose your pila precursors. Also, impact damage is still done with a comparative calculation of mass and speed with charge bonus being added on top (much more complicated than this actually but you get the point), so not moving would set one of the variables in the calculation to 0 and without bracing that's going to make the charge hurt a lot. You could turn off fire at will use you very heavy mass and maybe even testudo to tank it, but impact damage is all base damage and Romes best defense against it is armor anyways (mid-tier Rome average about 90 armor). Counter charging with pila is probably the best in all cases except the Oathsworn. With the counter charge on Sword Followers, you are winning in the mass department, depending on when you charge heavy and very heavy entities have similar charge speed so you are equalizing that a bit and you will get off a volley of precursors. The Sword Followers will still win the charge as they have a good one and the Romans suck across the board, but I think you will take similar damage either way and counter charge will do more back to them. Though as said Oathsworn just turtle up and eat that one you aren't winning unless you double team it or pour missile fight into it. Sidenote, Idk with all the micro going on if people want to be constantly turning on/off fire at will just to make a charge do a little less to your Romans.

@@howitzer551 Sounds like you have your stats down, no argument from me here. I will say, however, that the first line of legionnaires on the move and unbraced often gets intercepted by cav before launching a successful pila volley/charge. Leaving your troops stationary has a better shot of getting your pila off and/or bracing afterwards

You mean something like "Boyos"?

There are 2 pronunciations for Boii. One being Bo-e-e, similar to how Socii is pronounced Sock-e-e. The other is the standard boy-eye. Both are correct.

@@Bubinni Source for boy-eye also being a correct way?

@@nikolastipic8541 Its called looking it up on the super computer you hold in your hand. Try doing some research instead of outsourcing it to the hive mind.

@@Bubinni Ok butthurt, I did, that's why I wondered where did you get your source because it's wrong. Cheers :)