Prince of Macedon
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Prince of Macedon
A popular (on YouTube) RTW player, and was the host of many popular RTW online tournaments. He is under the patronage of Hader. He 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. This keeps the game fair, and archers are still effective, unlike high money games. More often than not, he wins the game. He has become a great strategist and is known by many of Rome: Total War's fans.
Problems with Trouble Makers
He is the victim of several trouble makers, many claiming to have beaten him. He aggressively denies it on some of his battles with the trouble makers, and only the all-knowing can tell us if he truly lost or not.
Personality
He sometimes use humor in his battles, sometimes saying “Bless You” when his archers sneeze and such, and can be very surprising indeed, once ambushing 6 units of Incendiary Pig.
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.
