Favourite Unit

cataphract archers -№1:pirate2::smg::pirate2:

for me the armoured hoplites and the horse archers..........minimaum losses for my armie maximaum for my anemie ^^

I totally love Scythed chariots! Once, I had only like 4-5 Scythed chariot units when i was playing as Pontus. I killed off...no, I MASSACRED a 18-unit egyptian army of nile spearmen and cavalry, led by their faction LEADER, no less. These chariots are AWESOME!!!!
Other than them, i like cretan archers- they are really cool, and for some reason, I don't know why, I like their accent.:laugh4:
I also like armoured elephants-these guys are ultimate! I can kill truckloads of guys with a single unit of these beasts.
As for infantry, i like spartans-they are really good fighters, and im always partial to greeks, for some reason. For some reason, I also like woad warriors a lot.... Don't know why.
For cavalry, my favourite is the cataphract-they just massacre. Nothing else needs to be said.:laugh4:
Too bad I can't try them all out in 1 army-that army would rock!!!!!!!:guitarist:

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Too bad I can't try them all out in 1 army-that army would rock!!!!!!!

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Well, as the Seleucids, you get three out of the five you mentioned, which is why many folks consider the Selkies to have the best overall roster in the game. While you can't get Spartans, the Silvershield pikemen available to Seleucia are certainly no slouches when it comes to phalanx fighting......and the Companion Cavalry are very good, as well...not as heavily armored as cats, but sturdy and able to go toe-to-toe with heavy infantry.........

Those aren't the only units I like. As I said, I also like woad warriors for some reason.
In fact, I just like SAYING "woad".
I like warcry tactics too.

Urban Cohorts are my favorite. Although Berzerkers are a close second. FYI Berzerkers trounce Spartan Hoplites in a fair scenario. They charge right trough the phalanx and rape them with their own spears.

True, beserkers can beat Spartans, but I didn't get the hang of the Germans when I got the game.
I just need some faction with Scythed chariots and a Hoplite and the world's my oyster:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

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but I didn't get the hang of the Germans when I got the game.

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Germania is a lot of fun to play if....you can get their economy up and running. Specialized units like the Berserker or the Night Raiders are fun. Gothic Cavalry rules! and if you enjoy archery, then the Chosen Archer is for you. The Chosen Archer has the added benefit of good melee stats, so you can send them into the fray after the shooting is over.

My favorite barbarian faction. Oh yeah....they get a spear unit, to boot. Not as good as hoplites or any of the dedicated phalanx units, but good enough to use the classic hammer-and-anvil tactic.

For barbarian factions, Britain isn't so bad, either. Their chariots are cool. REAAALLY cool.

You mean those "donkey carts" masquerading as chariots? :laugh4:

Two factions I rarely play because I hate having my generals in chariots....Egypt & Britannia. Try fitting those suckers down a narrow street during a city assault......

I said Britain was cool because I won battles when I was considerably outnumbered because of these guys. And i would NOT have won those battles with other unit types.

But, even though they are cool, they aren't the best, I admit. There are better units than them.

At least the Celtic chariots in RTW have historical correctness.

See here:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...Be2lKfMWDykDEg

And here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot

The use of chariots in the Middle East, however, pretty much ended at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331BC when Alexander the Great handily defeated the chariots of Darius III.

For Egyptian use of chariots:

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/chariots.htm

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/...cs/chariot.htm

Note this passage in the second link:

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Chariots were much more dependent on the terrain. They were most effective on flat, dry plains, without boulders, debris, or wet topsoil impeding their advance or even causing their breakdown.

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Something the game designers should have known before modeling them into the game. And as I grew up in hilly farm country, I can attest to stability problems for vehicles towing wagons or trailers. I spent a lot of time, when I worked in a local welding shop, repairing tractor hitches and the tongues on trailers, hay wagons, and balers due to roll-overs.

Anyways....some fun reading.

Those pages were cool....thanks for the links. On the whole, though, your favourite unit would depend on your way of playing.

yes with seleucia you can get :
all elephants types , best pike unites , Cataphract , and best Greek or macedonian cavalry (compagnions.....) and finally the legionaries from the roman technologie :book:

Seleucid Silver Shileds are inferior to Royal Pikes and both are inferior to Sacred Band Hoplites / Armoured Hoplites / Spartans

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Originally Posted by Myth

Seleucid Silver Shileds are inferior to Royal Pikes and both are inferior to Sacred Band Hoplites / Armoured Hoplites / Spartans

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Exactly. Spartans are cool fighters, though I go with bezerkers as well. They're actually pretty cool, now that i got the hang of them.:beam::beam:

Its Different hmm this is ganna be long:
Romans-Urban Cohort,Praetorian Cavarly
Gauls-Chosen Swordsmen
(Favorite Faction 3)Germans-Bersekers,Night Raiders,Screeching Women
Britons-Woad Warriors
Spanish-Bull Warriors
Dacia-Falxmen
Thracia-Bastanae ir something like that
Carthage-Sacred Band,Armored Elephants
Greek City States-Spartan Hoplites,Armored Hoplites
(Favorite Faction 1)Macedonia-Royal Pikemen,Macedonian Cavarly,Campanion Cavarly,Archers
Scythia-Noble Women,Head Hunting Maidens and the Noble Men or something like that
(Favorite Faction 2)Seleucid Empire-Silver Shield Pikemen,Silver Shield Legionares,Companion Cavarly,Cataphracts,Armored Elephants
For those I havent mentioned I dont have favorite

favorite faction?
brutii by far for their temple of healing. Get that, an academy plus a captured temple of farming and you get 4 ancillaries of casualty reduction. Then there's the cretan archers, the mercenary hoplites available exclusively at sparta province (lvl3 veterans. w00t!), and the mercenary elephants. Who needs anything else if you have 4 healing aides on your general? lol

I'm actually curious as to how this yummy awesome temple of ares is going to do for me...i'm so used to the pantheon of Mars that i'm not quite sure what +4 morale will do that lvl3 veterancy will do. Depends on whether lvl4 morale is like armor upgrades (they never dilute through battlemap attrition)

• actually, that's a funny thought. hehe...deep in the frontier your gold plated army suddenly has it's armor broken and can only be repaired at a foundry. lol. thank god creative labs didn't think of everything. haha

If you asked me what my favorite faction is for their inherent units? hmmm...assuming i'm choosing from experience i'd have to pick the default unlockable factions and go with briton for those chariot archers...but i hate playing them cuz they're one big 'wingame' button. So, my second choice is celts for the forester archers - they can HIDE ANYWHERE. lol. not that i've ever needed to hide a mob of those when they slay anything they can see from nyaaa nyaaa distance. I'd pick germans but i can't get the knack of playing them and their berzerkers.

If you consider both factions played by a human, Scythia and Armenia are beasts, as well as Egypt. Scythia have easily available AP light cav that slaughters most other cav. And their horse archers...

Anyway, morale is different from experience chevrons and armour/weapon upgrades. You should prioritize like this:

- Exp. chevrons (they grant attack/defense + morale bonuses)
- Armour/Weapon upgrades (add attack/defense)
- Morale boosts (make armies harder to route)

In some instances morale is obsolete (Berzerkers are immune to routing)

As the Brutii I usualyl build temples of Mars everywhere. I have too much money as it is anyway to use Hermes and the other one, I just don't bother with it, I can retrain and buy new armies anyway. Though I usually do keep the Awesome temple of Artemis that the Macedonians have in Thessaloniki to make my archers better.

I've heard that the best temple available to anyone in the game is actually a Julii Pantheon that upgrades some Gaulish temple, but I don't remember the details.

The best feature about playing as the Brutii is their starting position. All other reasons, however fun and important as they may seem, are secondary to this. Other factions, including Roman factions have some pretty impressive temples to choose from. The Egyptians, Seleucids, Carthaginians, among others, come to mind. Recruiting merc 'Creeshans', Ellie's, and +3 Hoplites can be done by anyone, it's the quick access to them (except for the Ellie's) that is part and parcel to the Brutii starting position.

And "best temple" is of course, quite a subjective thing, depending on your play-style and the faction involved. I, personally, like the Macedonian Temple of Zeus for its' law & order capabilities (important for securing a happy ZPG for distant cities), and the several craftsman temples that grant gold armor. And who can say that the Scipii Temple of Neptune isn't cool? The Decere is simply the best quinquireme in the game.