Excalibur Bane
12-28-2005, 18:35
I get my ass handed to me on Easy/Easy basically. Wow. That's sad. I must be getting old. ~:doh:
I was actually trying the barbarian factions for a change, I otherwise play the Eastern Romans. As far as I'm concerned, they simply have the best units. Don't care for the purple though, wise I could make it a nice blue. Anyway, I have my unit sizes set to large and I just can't seem to make a profit and field a decent army at the same time. Is unit size tied to how much it costs to maintain armies? I certainly hope not. It should be noted in the options screen where you set it, if it indeed does increase upkeep.
I'm not really liking the barbarians much so far. The lack of proper roads is irritating to get family members around to govern my cities, even more so for troop movement. No decent defenses for cities is also annoying, since I tend to be a defensive player. I wish I could mod this stuff, but sadly, my disability with numbers makes that impossible. I'd probably just increase unit movement for all barbarian factions, and reduce the damn squalor since there is little in the way of sanitation buildings for most of the barbarians.
I like the unit variety though. Especially the Sarmatians (Gee, I wonder why?) and those crazy Beserkers. Those guys are wrecking machines. Still have a few factions to try out. I've tried the Huns, Sarmatians, Vandals, and Alemanni so far I believe. Anyone have any recommendations for a balanced barbarian faction that has a good balance of infantry and cavalry units? I don't really care about siege units particularly. Far too useless on the common battlefield, more useful for carnage during a city siege.
Anyway, my thoughts for today. My strategy and battle skills have definately atrophied. One of the many disadvantages of being a gamer of all trades. :(
I was actually trying the barbarian factions for a change, I otherwise play the Eastern Romans. As far as I'm concerned, they simply have the best units. Don't care for the purple though, wise I could make it a nice blue. Anyway, I have my unit sizes set to large and I just can't seem to make a profit and field a decent army at the same time. Is unit size tied to how much it costs to maintain armies? I certainly hope not. It should be noted in the options screen where you set it, if it indeed does increase upkeep.
I'm not really liking the barbarians much so far. The lack of proper roads is irritating to get family members around to govern my cities, even more so for troop movement. No decent defenses for cities is also annoying, since I tend to be a defensive player. I wish I could mod this stuff, but sadly, my disability with numbers makes that impossible. I'd probably just increase unit movement for all barbarian factions, and reduce the damn squalor since there is little in the way of sanitation buildings for most of the barbarians.
I like the unit variety though. Especially the Sarmatians (Gee, I wonder why?) and those crazy Beserkers. Those guys are wrecking machines. Still have a few factions to try out. I've tried the Huns, Sarmatians, Vandals, and Alemanni so far I believe. Anyone have any recommendations for a balanced barbarian faction that has a good balance of infantry and cavalry units? I don't really care about siege units particularly. Far too useless on the common battlefield, more useful for carnage during a city siege.
Anyway, my thoughts for today. My strategy and battle skills have definately atrophied. One of the many disadvantages of being a gamer of all trades. :(