Under the leadership of Antigonus Gonatus, they are gracious rulers and shrewd tradesmen, enjoying bonuses to income and population happiness. Experienced warriors, the armies of Macedon also have an advantage when fighting against barbarians. The Macedonians have popped up on the Total War Wiki, which describes them as a nation "desperate to reclaim its past glory." As a Successor State, Macedon gains advantages when fighting other Hellenic factions, and enjoys improved income and provincial growth from every client state owned. Is there anyone those Total War developers don't have beef with? This time, Macedonians are joining the fray as a playable faction - and they're baying for blood and clanging their hi-res-textured shields together while wearing headcrest plumes in wildly varying shapes. I have actually never used the royal peltasts, because I find the pikemen to be more than enough.Huh.
I assume that the AI is set so that "long sticks plus mounted units = bad", so it causes them to rout even though there is no way I could actually hurt them, when they are just running there.
How? Well, I happened to notice that by just selecting a unit of pikemen and letting them run straight to the horse skirmishers (obviously causing the pikemen to loose their phalanx formation, where they run around hlding the spear like it was a flag), causes the enemy to rout almost immediately. I once fought an army twice my size of nothing BUT horse skirmishers, while my armu consisted of only 4 slingers, 3 heavy horses (general included), one siege unit, and the rest pikemen. Oh, and the one unit you would think would actually be really effective against pikemen, a mounted skirmisher, is pretty much useless against them.
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