Prince of Macedon
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Prince of Macedon
A well-known RTW player, Prince of Macedon is the host of many popular RTW online tournaments. He is under the patronage of Haderand is famous in the community for his numerous commentary multiplayer battles on YouTube. As his name suggest, he often plays as Macedon, playing games at low money levels. He does so because he believes that it keeps the game fair, and because in such a setup archers are still effective, unlike high money games. In almost all of his videos, he is shown winning the game, leading many to believe that he is almost. He is viewed as a great strategist by much of the Youtube community, although his reputation amongst competitive RTW players is mixed, and he has a negative reputation for censoring and blocking channels that criticise him, his methods or Alexander III of Macedon, for whom he has a large amount of respect.
Principles regarding censorship
Comments often pop up on PoM's videos, with many people claiming to have beaten him. He aggressively denies it on some of his battles and often blocks such commentators, leading to a negative reputation amongst much of the RTW community - he is known to have lost battles having promised to upload a battle to his channel regardless of the results and, on losing, broken his promise and refused to discuss the battle. Images of battle turnouts in which he has been defeated are available on the internet.
Personality
He sometimes use humor in his battles, sometimes saying “Bless You” when his archers sneeze and such, and can use bold tactics, such as ambushing units in attacks some would call suicidal, often coming out victorious.== His Troop selection == Royal Pikemen: A hoplite unit that has the same number of troops as falangites (240 men). These Royal Pikemen are better protected than Silver shields or Bronze shields and Pharaohs Guard. They provide a very solid anvil. Companion cavalry: Elite horsemen with good armor and a very good charge. These men excel at flank and rear attacks! With proper flanking companions and not all cavalry units selected at one single enemy unit head on these men are able to kill anything. Archers: Very cheap - they may lack the punch of the Cretan archers but they leave more room for upgrades. After all it is the melee that decides the battle. They provide a great distraction that keeps enemy archers busy while attacking with melee troops.
Attack is best defense
You can see that Prince of Macedon is an aggressive player and this has several advantages: He can force you to respond to him and not the other way around. He can attack when he is ready. The enemy player is more likely to isolate his own cavalry making it easier for Prince of Macedon’s companions to crash in the enemy cavalry from all sides making them rout and massacre the enemy cav.
Counter measures
How do you counter this excellent tactic? Maybe you should have more upgrades on your own cavalry and keeping them close to your infantry. I suggest attack and experience upgrades while only upgrading gold defense for the infantry. But it really depends on what factions as every faction in Rome Total War has different strengths. Don’t have the infantry units deployed side by side since that benefits phalanx units not cohorts. Launch your own offensive and if your roman throw pila and then form testudo in guard mode and then march right through those spears. Then the sword fighting skills of the roman infantry can be decisive as long as the cohorts aren't deployed side by side! The cavalry fight is most important - use some cohort support and don’t forget to micro manage your cav. The best faction to use against Macedon at this level is probably the Seleucid Empire. Companion cavalry cannot fight against cataphracts in a melee so it is a good idea to use those. Another effective use is that of what |TAoW|Ahille used. A skirmish army can be devastating against the Macedonians.
