Sacred Band - Multiplayer Battle - Total War Rome 2 

Thanks for streaming one of our games again Heir! All us Imperators at SPQR hope you and your viewers had a great Christmas! Minlok’s dog maneuvers are feared by many. In this case it was like you said, Minlok was coming off a flawless victory and was teeming with confidence and overcommitted. Great game though! IMO Carthage has a great roster for their own Pre-Marian Triplex formations and cavalry tactics.

When I play this type of army setup I imagine I’m a mercenary Roman general hired by Carthage leading her armies with my accustomed Pre-Marian tactics ;)

Oh, the Tyrian purple, Carthage is back baby! Also, Heir while they are all similar, there are actually 3 groups of spears (with a few types in each basic to elite) in the game files. There are regular spears, hoplite spears, and Celtic spears. The interesting thing to me is that none of Carthage's units, even though called hoplites, use hoplite classed spears they just use default spears (of differing quality and type). I don't know why CA did this, but I hope it is because as far as history tells us Carthage's main citizen troops were not really hoplites. Being Phoenicians from the eastern Mediterranean, their main type of soldier was a spearman equipped in the eastern style. In Rome 2 terms eastern spearmen but with actual armor and probably not garbage like in the game. When Carthage started to expand those units now started to be partially equip in a more western Mediterranean style. Mostly influenced by the Greeks and in some periods even using the unique Aspis/hoplon shield that meant they probably had to fight similar to hoplites (the Aspis was great in a phalanx and rubbish for pretty much everything else). To my knowledge no ancient source Greek or Roman ever calls Hannibal's best troops (thought to be the continuation of the sacred band) hoplites. They most commonly call them spearmen (usually "African spearmen" or "veteran spearmen") probably because they weren't really hoplites just looked similar, though it could also be because by Cannae, they had looted so much Roman equipment they were basically Triarii but with different spears. Anyways this is too long, it would be cool if Carthage has different spears from other hoplites because of that historical nugget but I don't actually know why CA did it.

Just remember when you're playing Carthage, any time you bring a unit you could have brought more Numidian cavalry instead.

I can't imagine any Sacred Band units breaking from fighting half-naked celtic warriors. If anything, it probably boosted their morale. 😉

Hi Heir, looked a bit like the battle of Cannae I thought lol. Sacred Band is one of my favourite units also btw.

Before the fight , I never imagined that Carthage can pull this off !!

What a great use of the map by sulla

Always nice to see Carthage in skilled hands. Great replay!

Woah that was a wild Carthage build ❤

Loved this video and it was nice to see a non meta unit really shine. Keep it up

Thank you so much for the Rome 2

What a great battle!

Very very good use of éléphant !

What a battle so much pressure on carthage at the start

You are the most humble youtuber out there. Always enjoy watching your videos. Especially the Rome: 2 I don't expect a response but keep being you brother and a big hello from the west coast of Canada!

Classic Carthage!

I hope the recording was bugged and the elephants were actually used efficiently because the amount of time they were just left sitting still was something I don't want to experience again Maybe he was just mocking the opponent and extending his suffering xD

Interesting build from Carthage, but awful play from the Arverni. Shouldn't attack infantry with levy freemen, just keep them in reserve to keep cavalry out of your back. They can protect the Heavy Horse and neutralize the threat from the Numidian cavalry. On top of that, Arverni commited their Oathsworn while the Celtic Warriors were still fighting, so the Oathsworn didn't have a clean charge. With a clean charge, the Oathsworn would have cleaned up the infantry from Carthage while the levy freemen kept off the cavalry and the elephants.

Carthage!!!

Nice

Hoplite wall ?? Shield wall ?? His infantry would have hold much longer if he had done this

Pulling a canae ;o

Hey Heir! If we wanted to submit a replay for your expert analysis where might one submit one?

Heir you should check out Divide et Impera mod for Rome II

This guys micro was rough

batalla de mancos

DEI campaign series.

this video is 7 minutes longer than it needs to be

Please switch back to Warhammer, these recent Rome 2 battles have been really crappy like this one. Any army in Rome 2 w/o any range isn't likely unless it was set up or an unexperienced player which is highly unlikely since it's been out forever.