Spearthrower
Thrower of spears
Lightening bolts from their asses.... that reminds me of something.... maybe a David Gemmel book?
Lightening bolts from their asses.... that reminds me of something.... maybe a David Gemmel book?
I think Rome should be able to build tanks with Bronze Working and access to sheep.
This is historically inaccurate. Rome won wars based on their organization and resources, not on fighting skill. See Hannibal for instance--without any support from back home, he kept destroying Roman armies, but Rome kept raising more. Rome kept grinding away in its eastern wars, too.
Similarly, the Allies won in WWII with sheer economic might. It's not that the Red Army, British/ANZAC, or US soldiers were better, but they just kept grinding away and eventually wore down the Wehrmacht through sheer numbers, air superiority, and capitalizing on intel breakthroughs and Hitler's idiotic excuse for military strategy.
In fact i think if you put one million Whermacht soldiers (from 1942) in a field agianst one millione red army/Anzac/British Army/US Army from any war year, the Allied troops would be slaughtered, end of.
Kurgan..... if you look at the odds, especially as Axes are the perfect (only) counter to Praetorians in the early game... you'll still find that you lose less Praetorians than you defeat Axemen. It's attrition - don't count the individual, count the mass.... make a few more than normal to counter the counter (so to speak).... or even better, why not drag a few chariots along with you to counter the axes and give your Praets free reign.
Kurgan, the beauty of C4 is that every unit in the game have a counter unit that can be used against them
Axeman are the counter units to Prets. You are likely to lose most battles against them.
Are you saying axemen beet C4? i was under the impression that C4 was a powerful explosive?
I remember very vividly a conversation I had with a published author on Soviet history. He told me that the Germans respected the British/ANZAC soldier, that they treated the US soldier as a worthy foe, but that they feared the Soviets with every fibre in their being, partly because of their supernatural insistence on self-destruction, but also because they were motivated by an unchecked, bitter and potent need for revenge. When this was coupled with some half decent hardware and a strategic command not based on the ego of one delusional man, they were the finest soldiers in WWII in terms of discipline and effectiveness, and history bears this out. (Again, in my opinion).