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Well 1.0 is finally coming, just wondering who you guys are most looking forward to playing as in 1.0 (assuming you don't always play the same faction).
Personally I can't wait to see some further development for the Greek/Diadochi factions, but with the smaller factions (hopefully!) being a lot more developed I'm quite looking forward to messing about with Hayasdan and Parthia, although I'm sure my opinions will change as more teasers/information is revealed :D
Anyways your thoughts guys?
who said you were going to play 1.0 soon ? :inquisitive:
Not me :laugh4:
Personally, I'm eagre to see what's been done to the Sweboz. Methinks they've had quite the facelift.
KH - never played them much
AEDUI!!!!!!!!!!
i play Sweboz but Romani and AS mayby i finally finish my campaign lol :inquisitive:
Baktria.
Thats my favorite faction so I'll start with them for the start. That only if I'm finished with my EB0.8 Baktria campaign! My plan is to finish that first, then play another faction first. It gets boring to start with a similar situation all the time. And since I started 3 RTR campaigns with Baktria, and now a EB0.8 campaign with them... that would be the case.
If EB1.0 is released before I can finish my 0.8 Baktria campaign, I'll hopefully finish their campaign first, then start with another faction in 1.0 and go back to Baktria after that.
If thats the case, my faction of choice would be KH, Carthage or the arabian tribes (I'm very curious about their style...).
put me down for a romani boys. definitely wanna see if i can beat the new and improved celtic factions. im up to the challenge, are they? :whip:
KH or Maks first. Casse afterwards.
My traditonal realistic-ish roman expansion (not landing in africa till the mid 100's , trying to keep it accurate, while pulling the strings of other factions to get them is a postion for later one (in my current romani campain, after pumping cash into parthia, they're finaly expaning, at a scary pace, and it's 200 BC and I only have greece and italy!)
Makedonia as always !!!!!!!!!
Hopefully I'll have a new video card by the time it comes out. And I think I'd like to play a Makedon campaign again.
The new Seleukid Satrapie system makes me want to try them out too though.
I will start probably with Pontos. But seeing how many improvements and new elements there was done for almost all factions I will want to try out as many as possible.
So far I have played prolonged campaigns for Aedui (till 160 BC) and Baktria (till 190 BC) and some short living campaigns for Romans, Selucids and Karthagians.
The way I see it now I am going to have campaigns with these factions among my priorities: Pontos, Pahlava, Saka Rauka, Arche Selukeia,Sweboz then there are some neat futures for Hayasdan (I mean the new system which allows you either acces to greek influenced units or the persian ones) Of course then I am going to play as a Baktria and Aedui again......
I am going to spent lots of hours/days/months playing it!
Arche Seleukeia. That new satrapial system looks just too tempting...
Epeiros or Karthadastim, my 2 favourite factions.
KH forever!
Wow no votes for Kart-Hadast yet, that surprises me :inquisitive:
I'll finish my epic Makedonian campaign first, then upgrade to 1.0. How much I'd love to have all these fantastic goodies in my current campaign... When I'm done, I have to do something different than the Maks - I just can't start the same thing over again. So my first campaign will most likely be the Sweboz, they seem to have undergone a major upgrade. And Carthage as a close second. And then... maybe it's time for Makedonia again - or the AS? No, Makedonia rules... :2thumbsup:
I will play with Sweboz, maybe I'll make an ARR with them too :D
But I will play Sweboz for sure.
pontus, the updates hopefully make my epic struggle against the silver horde easier, or atleast more interesting.
Hayasdan looks very interesting....I've never played them in EB, but with the new empire reforms they've been given, they look like lots of fun...I'll probably give them a go first.
I'm going to play with Hayasdan and conquer myself a cool empire, can't wait to let my hai horse archers ride out
I voted for Getai my second favourite faction. New walls and couple peoples mentioned about new badass unit their getting. :2thumbsup:
Definitely, the lack of decent line infantry really is a shame :smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by PenguinLobster
hmmm . sweboz in the second place . i would have thought AS or maks for that place if you suppose that eb 1.0 is going to be finished soon . who knows .
KARTH-HADAST defnitly , im going to conquer iberia , and seize rome , the romans will tremble as the war-elephants of carthage crushes there gate into tatters.
Definitely Blitz' propaganda machine at work here. ~;)
Makedon first.
Baktria second.
Getai 4rd
Hopefully a steppe faction 4th.
Hayasdan or Pontos 5th
Qart Hadast 6th
Sweboz 7th
Pontos / Hayasdan / Saba / Saka 8th
Romani 9th
That will keep me busy for the next year
Hayasdan all the way. I never played them much with the currtent version, but with their new reforms they practically dare me to play them. And after I've reconstructed Achaemenid Persia, the Arche Seleukeia will have their turn in an epic struggle to reunite Alexander's people! Gonna smash those incestous Ptolemaic freaks for good:laugh4:
Ptolemaioi forever. The cavalry of the deserts and the phalanxes of Alexandria will crush everything.
Second comes Baktria (love their mix of greek infantry and persian cavalry) and Getai (my country).
I'll try Pontos first as they've gotten some nice improvements since the 0.8 version.(Atleast, I hope they did.)
Then, after I've recreated the Ottoman Empire in ancient times, I'll go further east and see all the wonderful changes made to my Pahlavi.(Second favorite faction to the Arverni)That "new" satrapial system won't save those Greeks from Iranian maces.
I am impressed that so many want to play the Sweboz :grin: very encouraging
go romani! the only problem with this poll is that IIRC, the EB team said some factions will be replaced w/ new ones.
Most people want to play Sweboz, Romani doesn't count. :2thumbsup:
I cannot remember that such thing was stated.Quote:
Originally Posted by hooahguy14
That could mean for the Late Project, which I'm guessing is being released with 1.0, as in a preview a couple of months back they previewed 2 "Late Project faction symbols", although I could be completely wrong.
The late project is going to be late, sorry. It's not coming along with 1.0. The Romani are going to be replaced by Bartix.
I'm going to play my MAIN campaign as the Lusotannan.
I've been meaning to try them out, but with 2 highly developed campaigns I have not had the time really. Right now I have a Makedonian one where I have conquered most of Turkey, all of Greece, and everything up to Buridhava and Kallatis. My Karthadast campaign has me in control of about half of Iberia and most of Africa, soon (within 20 years, yes pacifying Iberia is that hard) I will have control of most of Iberia and then I will take the Romani out and WIN!!!!!
SO yeah, I have things to keep me busy. Still, my first campaign will be as the Lusotannan, with a Carthaginian and a Baktrian (or possibly Koinon Hellenon) Campaign to keep me occupied (odds are that I will try the other way this time with Carthage. Take most of Africa for a secure base there and then fight my way into Italia from the South with two good armies. After that I invade Iberia from the North and South).
Actually I too remember this being mentioned somewhere, however I don't think its happening (as current faction slots are full, who would go? There have been many threads on this already.)Quote:
Originally Posted by hooahguy14
However it's irrelevant, for the purposes of the poll, we're just going to have to assume that everyone is still in there :smash:
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Originally Posted by overweightninja
so ordered, so it is done :tnt: vote for Kart-Hadastim
your orders Shophet ?
IIRC factions that were not around or insignificant at the mod's start would be replaced with more relevant factions.Quote:
Originally Posted by overweightninja
as current faction slots are full, who would go
Whether to trust the EB team release time ~:confused: If what you are saying is true, although I'm sure you won't say, but any ideas on how late?Quote:
Originally Posted by bovi
The late project is going to be late, sorry. It's not coming along with 1.0. The Romani are going to be replaced by Bartix.
But hey, at least Bartix is finally in :smash:
Small factions - Saba, Pontos, Aedui/Arveni and then Bactria.
1st campaign will definately be KH for me. As i'm looking forward to the new Spartan Agoge system that will debut in 1.0. After that however will do something completely different in terms of my style of play and have a campaign as the Pahlava or Hayasdan.
What I meant was that IF a faction were to go for 1.0, we don't know who it would be yet therefore I would not know who to exclude from the poll.Quote:
Originally Posted by Admetos
Also it's nice to see a nice mix of people both sticking with their favourites and going with something different, really says something both about the quality of the current factions and the apparent quality of all these new changes :beam:
KH for me :yes:
Elite Hoplites, those big shielded medium cav & after a bit of expansion, Romphaiophori :beam:
No offence to Sweboz team. But I cant recall any thing new for the Sweboz. What exactly are they getting?:help:
Well, I'll probably wait for a few days before starting a new campaign. Mainly because I'll then catch all the "Faction XX is not working, I can't do that !" and other "CTD with faction YY, what should I do" topics :D
But then, I'd like to play a campaign with the romani. After all, it's Rome:TW and I've never ever completed a campaign with them (and IIRC, they'll get a lot of new things with 1.0)
Romani - and it may be time for that second AAR I owe this forum :biggrin:
From what I've heard in the past they're getting a serious shift. New units, a number of reskins and perhaps a few model alterations, and, methinks, a rather different vision of Germania in the period. They may also be getting Ethnicities, new Government Buildings, and "eras" akin to those of the Celts. Though I could be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beefy187
Sounds neat. I wonder what they're late era units will look like? Something with helmets I hope!Quote:
Originally Posted by Justiciar
Of course I will have to conquer the world as the Romani in my first campaign. New units or not, all other factions will have to bow before the might of Rome!
After that I might try out the Ptolemies or win some lebensraum for the Sweboz....
I'm a little disappointed. I know the Romans are a popular faction and that they get a lot of play, but I was really hoping people would branch out a bit.
Personally I voted for the Romans but I've changed my mind since, I'm gonna go Saba. I think most people do try different factions, it's just nice to try out a new version with something familiar the first time through which is why the Romans get so many votes.Quote:
Originally Posted by abou
c'mon, Sweboz comes second and Pontus third! aint that amazing?Quote:
Originally Posted by abou
go Pontus, go!:beam:
Damn straight, took the words right out my mouth :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarkiss
There are many people that are ONLY interested in Rome, and they play EB because it represents the Romans well. They will probably never play as another faction because it simply doesn't interest them.
Sweboz and Pontus coming 2nd and 3rd is awesome, it really shows how much people are looking forward to the changes being made :2thumbsup:
Who are in stark contrast to guys like me. Who have never touched the Romans in EB ever.:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by overweightninja
Pontus better have some nicer units because I plan a nice, long, Ottomansesque campaign with them!(Royal Harems and all!)
You know, I don't think I've played as Rome, either. Not on principle, you understand, they just haven't really appealed to me thus far. I may have to remedy that!
Don't get me wrong: everyone should play a game as every faction at least once. I'm serious. And that is including Rome - especially considering how much work the Roman team has put into the faction.
That being said, to jump into Rome every single time a new release comes out kind of goes against the point of the mod. And besides... doesn't it get old?
I agree....I was rome almost exclusively in vanilla....I tend to leave them for after I've tried some other factions.
That Romani Governor teaser makes me think I'll give them a go earlier than I thought though.
u mean the teaser showing the roman late centurion?
KH first, then Saba, then Rome, pretty much the only factions I play.
i personally will do romani (for the 3rd time) then probably the maks.
w00t - go Pontus!
the Romani are winning - wtf they are the faction that will be changed the least... :dizzy2:
Will play as Romani. I have played AS and Casse very much and want to try something between. :2thumbsup:
Has anyone walked the historical path of the roman empire, conquesting to the exact dates?
I think I might try that, but I will need a historybook at hand though. :P
This will all change again as soon as the next teaser or two are released probably, although thought mighta been a few more Hay votes.
put it the other way around. 75% of folks wont play as Rome first. already a great trend and shows a lot. i personally didnt touch Romans at all just yet. but will after im done with my Eastern comrades.:beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by blank
agreed, teasers do effect our moods. if Foot released Hay reforms preview now they'd probably get twice the votes.Quote:
This will all change again as soon as the next teaser or two are released probably, although thought mighta been a few more Hay votes.
still, whats amazing is how popular Pontus turned out to be considering afaik there were no previews, teaser involving it at all. imo great credit goes to a money/mercenary balancing mod which allowed this faction to be even playable.
go Pontus!
Yeah, you got the Sweboz up there too though, I guess even though these factions haven't had recent teasers or w/e the fact that they're both getting a lot of fleshing out (apparently!) in the new release could mean a lot of people may have wanted to try them for ages, and now finally feel they're complete enough, same goes for Saba, 8 votes is pretty good for a faction that I notice is often played just for a few years out of curiosity instead of for a proper campaign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarkiss
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Uh oh...Sweboz teaser posted a min or two again...prepare for the tide! :D
I might have to change my answer to Baktria, I really like the look of the Indohellenikoi Eugeneis Hoplitai, Sreni Pattya Yoddaha and the Hetairoi Kataphraktoi.