Germanicus on the Rhine

[Cyrion]

I am now at turn 44 and I haven't lost any legion (or Germanicus), I have retrieved the 3 standards, Arminius is dead and my Batavian scouts have shown that I still have 3-4 cities to conquer! The race against time is launched, but I might have been too cautious in my advance...

Turn 48, the 24th german city fell to my batavians!

With the death of Arminius, the retrieval of the standards and the survival of all my legions, this looks like a total victory...

I ended up with:
- 10 detachments
- Germanicus and Caecina
- 25 Batavian Horses (lost 9)
- 3 Roman Cavalry (lost 1)
- 37 Gallic Auxiliaries (lost 0)
- 20 Chalcii Auxiliaries (lost 3)
- 10 Syrian Auxiliaries (lost 3)
- 4 Battering rams (lost 1)
- 5 warships
- 4 barges
- all legions + praetorians

And the Cheruscii lost about 1'000 units during the war: what a slaughter!

I had a great time playing, thanks a lot John!

I often used my Batavians as "traps" for the germans: thanks to their high movement (all as road), I sent them as scouts and parked them on deep forest (+100% defense) where they waited for the germans to die attacking them; when they were wounded, they could easily retreat or be reinforced by other batavians.

Maybe 1 less in defense for the batavians would make these tactics less useful?

 

[simpeter]

Does this scenario play on vanilla, or are FW, MGE,etc. needed?

 

[Ingvar VII]

I think this is ToT only.