Which EB Unit Would You Be In?

I think it is important to remember just how expensive it is to raise and manage a horse. In Rome there was only one group considered wealthier than those of eques status: those who qualified as senators.

Right now I could probably count myself as a euzonos with a helmet. After I get my DVM I could hopefully afford enough to be an upper-end hoplite. There is one member on the team that, assuming stocks don't keep falling, could probably get away as a heavy cavalryman of some kind.

Of course, historically this all depends on where you are.

An example would be that piss-poor farmer in Hellas could be a full-on phalangite if he migrated to Baktria. Plenty of opportunity, land to have, and bronze for armor is cheap because Baktria had tin mines.

Ethiopian Agema or Saba bodyguard, cause thats where my ancestors were chilling.

What I would want to be, Late Parthian Kataphraktoi.


I've got a lot of money. I could afford to be just about any elite in the mod.

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Originally Posted by russia almighty

Ethiopian Agema or Saba bodyguard, cause thats where my ancestors were chilling.

What I would want to be, Late Parthian Kataphraktoi.


I've got a lot of money. I could afford to be just about any elite in the mod.

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In that case I would be one of those spear throwing jews in the game

I'd want to be in Argyraspides of the Seleukids if I had a choice.

I could probably actually afford to be one of them too, maybe even part of the Hetairoi cavalry. My family on my mom's side is quite wealthy and prominent in the Philippines. My grandparents have been close associates to every Filipino president since Ferdinand Marcos, which for anyone who knows about Marcos and most recently Estrada and Arroyo can come across as a mixed blessing at times. :laugh4:

Well, the Silver Shield corps worked a bit differently. They were sons in their twenties of military settlers and equipped by the state until their time in the corps was served.

Well if he was in Makedonia, he'd probably have to be a salty dog of the pikemen.

A British general's chariot. I'd be one of the ponies.

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Originally Posted by russia almighty

Well if he was in Makedonia, he'd probably have to be a salty dog of the pikemen.

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I'd much rather be a phalangite of the Arche Seleukeia then :beam:

Hmm now maybe I could be one of the Peltastai Makedonikoi. They were quite often sons of nobility and I think being part of a family that have been confidants to leaders of a country would make me eligible (If I was a son of one of the noble families in the Arche that is).

My name notwithstanding, I'd like to be a member of the argyraspidai. The Thorakitai Argyraspidai. They are lean and mean and shiny all over. And I love the gorgon head on their shield.

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Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

My name notwithstanding, I'd like to be a member of the argyraspidai. The Thorakitai Argyraspidai. They are lean and mean and shiny all over. And I love the gorgon head on their shield.

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Pez, you sound like a woman :laugh4:. Will you be asking for an aesthetically pleasing (high bling factor) pointy object with which you can force opponents to say "Ouch, that hurts"?

Abou makes a good point: most likely I'd be standing with 239 somewhat unwilling co-workers either wavering or routing.

Well I'd like to be in the Irish super-heavy inf, the idea of carrying more metal than a medium sized motorcycle on my back appeals to me.

If I lose a few more kg's I'll be volunteering for Dhampir's elite formation. Maybe we can have "escalator ladders" to make the wall climbing a bit easier?

I'd probably wind up a Peltast, a Hoplite or a Skirmisher-horseman of some kind. We can afford a Pony or two.

Oh, but I already have an aesthetically pleasing point bling bling with which to poke the opponent in my right hand. If all goes well, he doesn't have to say a thing -- he wouldn't be able to. :D

Permit me my fangirl moments, okay? :(

Any of the three man-tank units.

But I'd probably be some Scandinavian Guy, hopefully a Hearth-man

Perhaps an archer or skirmisher or Voinu (geographicaly), I am hardly a macho, so there is no chance of being something where lot of strenght is needed. Another oportunities are siege engineer, diplomat or spy. :laugh4:
And the top ones - with good social status and training - Elite Hoplite,Brihentin, Bosphoran archer

Geographicaly I would be a balearic slinger.

Ethnically I don't know, in Hispania it's difficult to say (I can't see more far than Middle Age), probably some sort of iberian milites, roman or german trooper.

If I had to choose something - I would go with some elite phalangites: Lets say Seleucid silvershields - You would find me in the last row. ( I guess that this could be quite a safe place for me with at least seven (up to fifteen) rows of battle hardened and skilled veterans in front of me)

Geographicaly I would be a Boii swordsmen, but ethnically I would be proto-slavic human flesh eater (Voinu - Slavic spearman)

Geographically and money wise I would be a Brigantes Lugoae or Botroas.
I would like to be a Kluddargos though.

Toxotai Kretikoi.

Thieving liars? Hell yeah.

i would of loved to be in a horse archer army
they just...cheat.
in reality i would of become a priest and never set foot in a battle,and if the enemy got near my location a naked fanatic

geographically, i would be a campanian cavalry, or an akontistai, or a levy hoplite, or a samnite, or a rorario etc.

ethnically i cant say, i should split myself in all the thousand and thousand combinations back to 2000 years ago, i could find every think..., it's totally impossible.

what i want to be if i had a machine time that throw me back in ancient times?
i think an ancillary, a sort of mad poet, a joker, a totally baroque, empty and complicated sophist or something like that...

Pedites Extrodinarii all the way man. Funny helmet, badass uniform (minus the helmet :laugh4: ) great pay and mama's home cooking when I come from war. Cosa Nostra and all that :laugh4:

Thorakitai Argyraspidai.

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Originally Posted by Long lost Caesar

Pedites Extrodinarii all the way man. Funny helmet, badass uniform (minus the helmet :laugh4: ) great pay and mama's home cooking when I come from war. Cosa Nostra and all that :laugh4:

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Ha! I second that, mate! Though I do not object the helmet- it will make me look taller! However, I don't know if the breastplate could be made to contain a semi-globe (a direct result of a lot of beers)!?

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Originally Posted by Matinius Brutus

Ha! I second that, mate! Though I do not object the helmet- it will make me look taller! However, I don't know if the breastplate could be made to contain a semi-globe (a direct result of a lot of beers)!?

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And you think you could be in the service of Rome with a semi-globe??

Amazon warrior women! :laugh4:

No, kidding. Spartiatai Hoplitai, of course. :2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by d'Arthez

And you think you could be in the service of Rome with a semi-globe??

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The Gauls didn't seem to have a problem with it, infact I request a change to Gaeasatae models, while still very muscular, they require a beer gut.

Umm...a diplomat so that I could avoid any fighting, get to eat good food and gain experience just from talking to people!

Personally I would be a roman legionaire. Your armor is payed for, you get land when your done with 20 years service and you are a highly disciplined, and equipped killing machine.

I could afford to be a militia hoplite (middle class free man, but not a land owner...) but I'd like to be an Indo-Greek Noble Hoplite! I think that being way out on the very forgotten edge of Western civilization, and yet having villas and slaves for being an elite warrior would be amazing... Plus it would be a meritocracy, so your lack of of family status would not count against you, rather your ethnicity and ambition would be decisive. That's the type of place that appeals to an American, descended as we are from a bunch of people who left the old world to find better opportunities at the edge of (then) civilization...
By the above statement, I am just saying that we have a national fetish for the "frontier" and that that would carry over into my fantasy unit type...