EBII release- the worst day of my life

[anubis88]

Why?
I just realized something... Always when a new EB release happened, my greatest dillema was with wich faction to play first... Carthage? Seleucid Empire? SPQR? Pontos? And for the first few days i literally couldn't decide with which faction to stick, since i wanted to see every new unit, every new building, every new trait of ANY FREAKING FACTION!!!

And now it occured to me.... when EBII is released, 29 factions! 9 or so of them NEW, like Numidia or Pergamon whom really seem awesome, the other completly redone! As much as i know myself i won't be able to decide with which faction to play for real for a month!
I will be on the compture the whole day, reading every new descripton of every new unit, my gf will probably brake up with me, i will fail my class at university, i will gain 20 kilos and worst of all, I will be in a constant dillema with which faction to play!

The sad part is, most of this will probably happen...

Does anyone alse have the same "fear"?

And by the way, I really can't wait for EBII to come out... Screw everything alse

P.S. Damn, will also have to buy a new computer... Hope the EB team anounces a month or two early when the relese is about to come so i start a job or sth

[-sKy-]

Easy choice for me. As i prefer fully operational hellenistic Armies, i will either play the new Kingdom of Pergamon, or another hellenistic state, if there is to be any in the future.

[Cyclops]

Not so much a dilemma (or even a 29-emma) as an embarrassment of riches.

And for me its easy: I'll be giving Numidia a whirl. An old favourite, tough position with a strong neighbour.

Unless they include the Mauryan satrapy...plzplzplz...

[SwissBarbar]

Be happy. If your GF breaks up with you, you'll have more time to play EB

[-Praetor-]

Be happy. If your GF breaks up with you, you'll have more time to play EB

Yeah! Being sad because your girlfriend breaks up with you is not EB-thinking!

[Ibrahim]

Why?
I just realized something... Always when a new EB release happened, my greatest dillema was with wich faction to play first... Carthage? Seleucid Empire? SPQR? Pontos? And for the first few days i literally couldn't decide with which faction to stick, since i wanted to see every new unit, every new building, every new trait of ANY FREAKING FACTION!!!

And now it occured to me.... when EBII is released, 29 factions! 9 or so of them NEW, like Numidia or Pergamon whom really seem awesome, the other completly redone! As much as i know myself i won't be able to decide with which faction to play for real for a month!
I will be on the compture the whole day, reading every new descripton of every new unit, my gf will probably brake up with me, i will fail my class at university, i will gain 20 kilos and worst of all, I will be in a constant dillema with which faction to play!

The sad part is, most of this will probably happen...

Does anyone alse have the same "fear"?

And by the way, I really can't wait for EBII to come out... Screw everything alse

P.S. Damn, will also have to buy a new computer... Hope the EB team anounces a month or two early when the relese is about to come so i start a job or sth

*facepalm*

look, having 29 factions to play from is not a bad thing; if you are having trouble choosing, just do that inny minny miny moe thing to choose which one to play. : clown:

or you can just divinate which faction by drinking tea and seeing the leaf residue, the fortune telling 8-ball, or the lines sand method, the oracle of delphi, o Uri Geller, or the crystalball, should the inny minny miny moe fail to relieve your desire.

besides, if you wish to see every unit, that's what custom battles are for

[Cute Wolf]

Choose a random faction that has their sucessor nations appear on the news headline first

[Apázlinemjó]

When it's released, I will fire up a Custom Battle and check all of the units of every factions, then I probably start a Pontos, SPQR, or Swebóz campaign...it's gonna depend on my mood.

[seienchin]

Im more afraid of all the units looking alike, because of the realisitc look.
29 factions to beat and all have look alikes. I mean in MWII units, who have no strong colours are indistuingishable frome each other.
Hoping for some extensive colouring

[anubis88]

Seriously guys... with whom will i play? Every new preview that comes out i wan't to play the faction in question.... And there are 25+ more previews to go....

[Cute Wolf]

Seriously guys... with whom will i play? Every new preview that comes out i wan't to play the faction in question.... And there are 25+ more previews to go....

Just try to play your fave faction's campaign in EB 1 first... then decide your next after encountering them (and hence, know their location and what to be thrown at your enemies)... hope that helps...

Even if I dislike Romans, you should try them first, because your favourite faction is the faction you most familiar too... right?

[G. Septimus]

well, I would choose my two favorite and well- known civilizations- the Romans and the Greeks/Makedonians (Konnon Hellenon, Makedon, Arche Seleuka, and Epiroes).

[Ca Putt]

probably I'll spend hours or days on Costom battles just to see every unit :D and then hope that one Civ intreagues me more than the others.

[antisocialmunky]

probably I'll spend hours or days on Costom battles just to see every unit :D and then hope that one Civ intreagues me more than the others.

This or pick a faction with phalanx and see if the AI completely fails.

[Subedei]

1. Baktria [lots of different units/ good mix]
2. Nomad faction [HELL YEAH!]
3. depends on which faction I identified as an interesting faction [most lilkely a new one me thinks]

[Owen Glyndwr]

I'll go with the Romans first, and then I'll jump on over either to the Epeirotes, or to my beloved Casse (provided they are still there )

[Maeran]

Well, it's going to be one of the factions in the Gaza campaign isn't it?

I doubt that the first public release of EB II will be EB in its complete awesome glory. Some factions will probably be missing or incomplete. So your choice will be a bit narrower than all that.

[WarpGhost]

Its a relatively simple choice for me: one of the new factions. Because chances are, I'll barely even have heard of them, and will be eager to find out a little more. The only way to know which one will be to see them first and judge the most interest from the info given and their relative locations.

[Tanit]

Seriously guys... with whom will i play? Every new preview that comes out i wan't to play the faction in question.... And there are 25+ more previews to go....

Carthage. Tanit and Ba'al compel you.

[Ibrahim]

well, I start with my homies in alphabetical order

(since saba is the only arabian faction around, its the first in EB 1.2

[anubis88]

Carthage. Tanit and Ba'al compel you.

Well Carthage IS the facto my favourite faction, and also the faction i know the most about... But Since Carthage is my favourite faction i litterally overplayed it in EB1.

It is on the top of my list with Seleucia though, but the Numidian preview impressed me as well, in fact impressed me a lot, so i started liking this faction as well...

Here's my list of wanna play factions i guess.

1) Carthage
2) Seleucid Empire
3) Numidia
4) Pergamon
5) Pontos
6) SPQR
7) Ptoleamaic Empire
8) Aedui
9) Getai
10) Arverni

Of course the problem is that all the new factions will come in between those 10!


Damn, i really can't wait for this game to come out...

Hope there's a Carthage preview soon, so that i may "roleplay" the new info on EB1

[Scud]

i will fail my class at university,

It is more likely we'll both graduate before we see EBII released (and I'm only a first year undergrad).

[-Praetor-]

It is more likely we'll both graduate before we see EBII released (and I'm only a first year undergrad).

Oh come on, it won't take THAT long...

[scutum]

Obviously the pick is Romans. Second would be Parthia (or whatever its name is) and third might just maybe be Carthage. Why? Because it's historical. Other factions would be playable only if they would have different development opportunities, but I don't think the engine gives that possibility.

[Skullheadhq]

I think I'll fire up a custom battle against a succesor and look how the AI manages the phalangitai and then i'll start a game as Pahlava.

[Scud]

Oh come on, it won't take THAT long...

The offical word that it'll be released at SOME POINT before July 2012? Thats a good sign!

[Skullheadhq]

The offical word that it'll be released at SOME POINT before July 2012? Thats a good sign!

Lol yeah, well we got like (at least) 20 previewsleft till the release. Since only 4 out of 29 factions has been previewed.

[Horatius Flaccus]

The Gaza campaign isn't that far of, I think. So I'm going to play the Ptolemies first

[hekk]

I think it would take me +ten minutes to actually select a faction from the main campaign of EB, once it is released.

I think my first faction will be Epirus, I cannot wait to be stomping around the Italian mainland as Pyrrhus with a giant host of war elephants and individual-looking phalanxes in glorious M2TW graphics.

[Phalanx300]

Well as others have said I'd first check the units out in custom battle to see how they look and react and read a bit of the new infos(first unit to check are ofcourse going to be the Spartans, probably looking at how Hoplites react and Phalangites and some semi-Phalanxes).

Then I gues I'll play either the Koinon Hellenon(can't wait to see the new Spartans!) or the Sweboz or possibly another Germanic faction besides it, or an Belgian one.