what are the faction you never played so far?

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Originally Posted by NeoSpartan

I see.... thats some kind of woop a#%. Only one problem...
I am the NAKED barbarian this time (Aedui)..... I think I better start massing Celtic slingers.

still... I expect 2, 3 Clear Defeats. So far, there is a Hayasdan loose stack roaming close to my borders on the eastern Balkans. Later... much later... there will be full out war against Hayasdan and Parthia. But 1st I must free Galatia and the KH, Pontus, and Ptolemy (sp) are in the way. (AS is almost dead)


however.... in my next game I'll play Parthia (sp)

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Slingers are great for their purpose, and they make particularly excellent garrison infantry or bait, however they are not tactically flexible in the same as horse archers who are able to double as light cavalry able to make short work out of light infantry. Light infantry have other uses however, especially in sieges where they can be used as fodder or siege manpower. Still though, I think horse-archers have a better counter against light infantry in the form of slingers or foot-archers (Now unless they are one of those lovely Eranshahr Arshtibara who double as spearmen) and that's in melee. When you become able to afford mass-recruiting the Dehbed Asavara, you've reached the true jack-of-all-trades. Cataphract archers is on the other side of the spectrum of versatile cavalry.

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Originally Posted by kalkwerk

Sure? Even if you fire at short distance from all sides?

Edit: okay got your point about the line. But youll always be able to flank the AI with HA, because they wont hold the formation.

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I've fought with HA against elite phalanxes, and even with flanking and shooting them in the back, most of them are still alive when I run out of arrows. Elite phalanxes = :skull:

Have only ever played EB as Romani (2 or 3 campaigns) and Lusotannan (1 campaign). I don't have a lot of time to play and only started playing EB with the .8 release.

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Originally Posted by The Persian Cataphract

Slingers are great for their purpose, and they make particularly excellent garrison infantry or bait, however they are not tactically flexible in the same as horse archers who are able to double as light cavalry able to make short work out of light infantry. Light infantry have other uses however, especially in sieges where they can be used as fodder or siege manpower. Still though, I think horse-archers have a better counter against light infantry in the form of slingers or foot-archers (Now unless they are one of those lovely Eranshahr Arshtibara who double as spearmen) and that's in melee. When you become able to afford mass-recruiting the Dehbed Asavara, you've reached the true jack-of-all-trades. Cataphract archers is on the other side of the spectrum of versatile cavalry.

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true.... I'll see how the celtic slingers preform, I expect them to do a good job due to thier range. BUT I'll make sure I don't get into a missile duel with the HA, and eastern archers. I did that once in RTW and got my a#% handed to me.... twice. :no:

I only discovered EB when 0.81 was out so i have only played epeirus and bactria fairly extensively,but i am really looking forward to play as karthadastim and destroy the romans:laugh4:

I've played as the Romans up until 180BC and that's probably my longest campaign in EB. The only other faction I've played past a few turns is the Makedonians. I wish I had more time to play EB. ~:(

Hard for me to stay on a single campaign so i've played them all... But the only campaign ive ever played to go past 200BC was as the Romani and I had already conquered past the extent of the roman empire all the way to india :P

The Usual Suspects:

Macedon - Favorite faction, always revert back to them or the Romani after 'odd' campaigns. One went to 160 BC.
Romani - Current campaign, and longest ever. 125 BC.

Conquered at least one fourth of the map:

Carthage
Epeiros
Koinon Hellenon
Sweboz (never again)

Couple of turns:

Getai
Arche Seleukeia
Baktria (going to be my next grand campaign. simply had to after all the praise.)
Casse (never again)

Never:

Pahlava
Saka (never will)
Sauromatae (never will)
Hayasdan
Pontos
Ptolemai
Saba'en
Lusotania
Aedui (never will)
Averni (never will)

I have an utter contempt for barbaric and nomadic factions. Simply not made for empire building.

Well, I've played several games as the Romans starting with EB 0.81. I played one campaign as the Selucids with 1.0 and tried Carthage and Greeks as well. Now I'm waiting for some more unofficial mods and hotfixes to come out for 1.1 before starting another Selucid campaign again. Never tried any other factions apart from Romans, Selucids, Carthage and Greeks. :embarassed:


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210 BC with medium/medium difficulty. I love everything about the Selucids, except for the huge distances and unrest penalties which made moving my capital back to Seleukeia impossible.

I love everything about the Maks but their crappy lvl3 government, the possible locations for lvl2 governments, and the missing ability to recruit Thorakitai. Thank god this is all mod-able.:2thumbsup:

I never played as Lusotannan, Aedui, Arverni, Sakae, Sarmatae, Pahlava, Baktria, Seleukeia, Ptolemaioi, Saba, Getai, Hayasdan, Pontos, Koinon Hellenon and Epeiros.

Romani - NEVER PLAYED - No desire to play them. On one hand, were I to play them, I'd like to play a historical-campaign as QuintusSertorius is doing. On the other hand, I don't want to be constricted by history to that extent. So I just don't play them.

Koinon Hellenon - NEVER PLAYED - It would feel weird conquering any substantial territory with them. Plus of the Hellenic factions, they seem to have the least interesting units.

Epeiros - NEVER PLAYED - they just don't appeal to me for some reason. Maybe since, as a faction, they didn't survive long into EB's time-frame.

Makedonia - PLAYED - my favourite of the Hellenic factions. My last campaign with them, I invaded Egypt after I emerged the victor in Greece. I really like the challenge of their initial starting situation and I love their position on the map. Basically, can choose where to expand.

Ptolemaioi - my second favourite of the Hellenic factions. I love their starting position. And I love the wars with AS.

Arche Seleukeia - NEVER PLAYED - their size still intimidates me. Been meaning to play an AS campaign for awhile, I just get the feeling it will be too easy to get to be a super-super-power territory-wise given that they are so large to begin with. For that reason, I want to roleplay a campaign with them, but don't know enough about their history to serve as a guideline.

Baktria - Awesome. I love this faction. You can put together some awesome armies with Baktria. Eastern units, with Hellenic units, with Indian units, with nomadic horsearchers. They're the Benetton of factions.

Hayasdan - I love these guys. A Hayasdan campaign is such a rewarding challenge. My favorite EB campaign was with them in EB 1.0.

Pontos - NEVER PLAYED - the whole nigh-impossible thing scares me.

Saka Rauka - NEVER PLAYED - the whole nigh-impossible thing scares me.

Sauromatae - - NEVER PLAYED - I love me the cavalry armies, but I dislike their starting position. Too far from civilized territories for me.

Pahlava - what can I say. I love this faction more than any others. Nothing more pleasurable than marching an army of Cataphracts and horsearchers to the field. Thanks to EB, I've started reading a number of books on them. They're just amazing.

Getai - I just started a Getai campaign. I like their roster and their starting position. The chance to get some nasty shock infantry as well as my preferred horsearchers seems very very interesting.

Sweboz - NEVER PLAYED - don't much like infantry

Arverni - NEVER PLAYED - don't much like infantry

Aedui - NEVER PLAYED - don't much like infantry

Casse - NEVER PLAYED - I like to turtle. But these guys seem to be on a whole 'nother level for turtle-ability. They seem to far removed from the rest of the EB factions.

Lusotannan - NEVER PLAYED - dunno why. I've been meaning to play as these guys for some time. Maybe my next campaign.

Qarthadastim - NEVER PLAYED - similar feelings as with the Romani. On one hand, I'd like to play a somewhat historical campaign with them. On the other hand, that means I get destroyed. Plus, I'm not sure the AI Romani would be up to snuff. I'd like to see some naval battles and some naval landings, but I don't the AI could handle. Maybe on BI.exe. But I've heard things about annoying naval invasions.

Saba - NEVER PLAYED - they just don't appeal to me at all.

I've only played Seleukids (lots of times), Makedonia (several times), Carthage (twice) and Pahlava (once). I tink I'll end up playing KH and Epeiros soon as well, cos' I really like them.

As for the rest

Baktria, Pontus, Hayasdan - find them kinda interesting, MIGHT try them, but prolly won't get far

Ptolemaioi - for some reason, even though I worship all other hellenic factions, I really detest them and have no wish to play them. Perhaps it is because their warmongering weakened the Seleukids, who are my favourites, but I don't think that's the entire story. There's just something I don't like about Egypt. In all games, I've never played Egyptians. I like Hellenes and Mesopotamians and peoples of Iran and Asia Minor, but I've never liked Egypt. I don't even want to conquer it??? (though I do it for the money. Might also play them once, merely because they're so rich)

Casse, Getai, Sauromatae, Saka, Lusotannan - promise you I'll never play them. They're nice when you're hellenic and they represent northern tribes you have to defend against, but they mean nothing to me.

Arverni, Aedui - MIGHT just try them. But would have to be a day when I'd just seen an Asterix movie:laugh4:

Sweboz - seem somewhat mystic, dark and sinister up in that dark forest. But dunno if I'd get more than a few turns done

Romani - they destroyed all of those contemporary states which I liked, so NO. Hate them and like leaving them alone till they're big enough to be a challenge and then crush them in battle after battle (though I detest their very possessions too much to want to invade them:inquisitive::laugh4:)

Actually, beat this: I have NEVER progressed farther north than the starting territories of Makedonia/Epeiros, southern Romani, starting territories of Carthage or north of the Caucasus or the VC's of the Seleucids (except with diplomats).
I have never actually BEEN (in EB) in modern Germany, France, England, Scandinavia, most of Iberian peninsula or Russia - Prolly one third of the map that I haven't even SEEN:smash:

Just as an update, i have to say that i played the Getai for a lot of turns in 1.1, and i have to say that they are fun! There are a lot of forests there, and i cant say the satisfaction of hiding the falxemen in the forest, then wait that the various enemys engage my first line in guard mode, and then let the falxmen to break out from the forest and charging the engaged enemy in the back... it's a slaughter... i like them. (they have very few armour, so you keep them well hidden and safe, and you use them just as a sort of "terminators"...:chucks:)

Also new factions that I played for a good amount of turns are Epeiros, Saba and Arverni, so the list of non played faction is becoming very tiny...

never played as Casse, Lusotana, Sweboz, Rome, Saka, Sarmatians, Getai, Aedi and Arverni.
i guess im just not a big fan of "barbarians". dont really miss Romans either.
will give those factions a try one day though. Gaul and Iberia look the most attractive.

Sauromatae and to a lesser extent the celtic factions(I played casse extensively, but not Aedui or Arverni.
Oh and the seleucids, I will eventually start a campaign as them when they're constricted to Syria.

I just started my first Parthian Campaign.

all but the getai, romani, and baktria
EDIT: i mean, i only played the above 3 factions....

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Originally Posted by Obelics

Im curious, i have the mod from 0.72, and i played it a lot, now i noticed there are some faction i never played, and i never tryed too, why? well, i dont know, but im curious to know other experienced player faction that they haven't played yet.

here's mine:
Ptolemaioi: total 0 minutes spent.
Baktria: 0
Seleucids: 0
Makedonia: 0
Epeiros: 0
Getai: few turns
Arverni: few turns but played Aedui a lot.
Casse: few turns.
Saba:very few turns
Armenia:very few turns

from the list ive understood, im not so fascinated by the successors (now that i think on, the faction that i never thought to play in EB, neither in RTW, neither in other mods, was Makedonia, really it has the smallest appeal on me, cant say why, the second faction on the list of the smallest appeal is Ptolemaioi i have to say)
while im more a Easterns/Latin/Nomads/Barbarian/KH/Semitic kind of guy...:laugh4:

just curious on others players' list, you can discover somethink about yourself!:inquisitive:

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I only ever play AS, saba and the romani. I like to keep the others a mystery. :beam:

I've never played the Ptolemaioi. All others I've done at least a couple of turns with. I'm now doing Casse again. Next up will be either Macedon or the Seleucids, again too.

The main factions I like playing are Carthage, the Iberian one, Rome, Makedonia, Baktria, and I had a multiplayer game going with Kionon Hellon, where we would alternate faction leaders, so one would die, the other play would advance his goals, then I'd get it back and fix it in line with what I wanted to do, but then I never got the turn back.

I have never played the Saromatae, Saka, or Parthians because in custom battles, I do not much like running around with horse archers, waiting for them to finish their arrow supply, then run around some more and charge. However, the mystery of these factions are growing on me, and lately I've been wanting to try out Parthia so that should be a great, refreshing campaign with a fighting style I am not overly familiar with with units I am not familiar with ~:).

Overall, I'm a heavy infantry type player. I love the northern barbarian factions, and have had many a fun campaign with the Sewboz, Aedui, Arverni, Casse, and probably my most fun campaign was with the Getai. Those are my main factions that I do play with. Currently with Lusotana I am around 30 turns in and things are going well. Hellenistic factions and Carthage I've played them all. Seleucids and Bactria have a great and varied roster, some of the horse archer fighting style, and they are very fun to play. Rome is great, but I think it would be more challenging/rewarding if the Aedui or Arverni reached supremacy in Gaul sooner so once I arrive, they put up a great struggle against my Polybian armies. Regardless, who I play, its always fun, and I am looking forward to trying out the horse archer faction soon.

All of them apart from Rome. Not really interested.