A lot of the bad units seem like good choices if you are pursuing a Medium Foot Spam strategy. IE have enough medium foot to outnumber the enemy line, use the extras to go for a flank (flanking does not care about your unit quality or capability at all for non lights), then roll up much more expensive units. Obviously, risk is your bad medium foot being engaged frontally do not last the 2 or 3 combat rounds for the flank to happen, so do you shift a commander in before impact? Or try to delay with skirmishers while your flankers work their way in?
Problem is the Citizen Hoplites only cost 42. You can have quite a lot of hoplites in your army. 36 pts v 42 pts. You are only up 60 pts with 10v10, for example. Not even enough for two extra Medium Foot units in many armies. Your idea is good but a lot of the time your line will crumble before the flankers can really get going.
Something about Phoenician foot is that there is a lot of armies who rely on either LS+sword or LS+50% sword. Phoenicians are cheaper than all the other LS+Sword units of the period, and are not substantially more expensive than the LS+50% sword foot. So they will cost effectively fight into a lot of stuff. Hoplites is something they struggle with, but at least they have numbers and can use rough terrain to anchor their line.
Yes, a good point. I guess that is why I put the Phoenician Foot at 5th and Mede Spearmen at 4th - they are cheaper by 3 pts and the same unit. I did mention to Richard that I found the name 'Mede Spearmen' rather confusing as they are actually Swordsmen in melee...
A lot of the bad units seem like good choices if you are pursuing a Medium Foot Spam strategy. IE have enough medium foot to outnumber the enemy line, use the extras to go for a flank (flanking does not care about your unit quality or capability at all for non lights), then roll up much more expensive units. Obviously, risk is your bad medium foot being engaged frontally do not last the 2 or 3 combat rounds for the flank to happen, so do you shift a commander in before impact? Or try to delay with skirmishers while your flankers work their way in?
Problem is the Citizen Hoplites only cost 42. You can have quite a lot of hoplites in your army. 36 pts v 42 pts. You are only up 60 pts with 10v10, for example. Not even enough for two extra Medium Foot units in many armies. Your idea is good but a lot of the time your line will crumble before the flankers can really get going.
Something about Phoenician foot is that there is a lot of armies who rely on either LS+sword or LS+50% sword. Phoenicians are cheaper than all the other LS+Sword units of the period, and are not substantially more expensive than the LS+50% sword foot. So they will cost effectively fight into a lot of stuff.
Hoplites is something they struggle with, but at least they have numbers and can use rough terrain to anchor their line.
Yes, a good point. I guess that is why I put the Phoenician Foot at 5th and Mede Spearmen at 4th - they are cheaper by 3 pts and the same unit. I did mention to Richard that I found the name 'Mede Spearmen' rather confusing as they are actually Swordsmen in melee...
good veido