The land was impoverished and sparsely populated, and the army took what little surplus there was, so there were few of the trappings of Romanised life.īritain’s upper classes had found a new style. Local farms supplied grain, meat, leather, wool, beer, and other essentials.īut change was limited. Settlements of craftsmen and traders grew up around the forts, sustained by army contracts and soldiers' pay. Here, through some 350 years of Roman occupation, the army remained dominant. The rest of the Roman army was also stationed in the west and the north - in lonely auxiliary forts in the Welsh mountains, the Pennines, or the Southern Uplands of modern Scotland or in one of the big three legionary fortresses at Isca Silurium (Caerleon), Deva (Chester) and Eboracum (York). The line stretched for 73 miles across northern Britain – a ditch, a thicket of spikes, a stone wall, a sequence of forts, milecastles and observation turrets, and a permanent garrison of perhaps 8,000 men. On the ground, the lines were made real in stone, earth and timber. On one side 'civilisation', on the other 'barbarians'. Here, and across the empire, the Romans were drawing symbolic lines across the map. Somewhere, perhaps on the River Medway, they fought a great battle and crushed the Catuvellauni, the tribe that dominated the south east.
Here was a fine testing-ground of an emperor's fitness to rule.įor the Claudian invasion, an army of 40,000 professional soldiers - half citizen-legionaries, half auxiliaries recruited on the wilder fringes of the empire - were landed in Britain under the command of Aulus Plautius.Īrchaeologists debate where they landed - Richborough in Kent, Chichester in Sussex, or perhaps both. In the popular Roman imagination, it was a place of marsh and forest, mist and drizzle, inhabited by ferocious blue-painted warriors. But revolt in Gaul (modern-day France) had drawn him away before he had beaten down determined British guerrilla resistance.īritain had remained free – and mysterious, dangerous, exotic. I should also say that when I said you can release them on the skirmish line well in advance, I meant that I deploy them ahead of my line, then have them release before the skirmish battle begins.Bronze statue of Boudicca located at Victoria Embankment, LondonĪ century before, in both 55 and 54 BC, Julius Caesar had invaded Britain with the aim of conquest.
Even if the dogs get hung up on melee units, though, it will break apart the enemy formation and you can eploit that with your infantry or skirmishers.
If the enemy places melee troops between you and their skirmishers, you can send the dog handlers around back to try and get a better release. Afterwards, they just do their thing and attack whatever comes against them. It has been some time since I played Rome 2, but if I remember correctly, they just attack the closest target once released.
Are the released dogs affected by getting caught in melee and slowed while heading to a target? Do they attack randomly or does manual targeting work the way your doing it? The only thing I didn't think of was wardogs against skirmishers, but that would solve my cav issue.
Ursprungligen skrivet av baulthazar:I've been trying to figure out a better composition and I think yours here is what I was wanting to upgrade to.