Does anybody have any suggestions about battlefield tactics agains heavy infantry in the early game (first 40 turns or so)?
In particular agains those Naked Fanatics that the Gauls field quite a lot...
Right now I use Velites (which are crappy, BTW) to thin their numbers some before I pin them in place with my Hastati, and then use horse units (preferably the generals bodyguard) to hit them from the side or the rear. Which works quite well, as they die fairly quickly once the cavalry comes in, but they certainly extract a fairly heavy toll on the Hastati. It would be great to minimize the losses, since Hastati are the backbone of any decent Roman army that I can field...
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