Favorite troop type

[fenix3279]

Slingers. You can't go wrong with hordes of slingers pelting the enemy.

....until they're close enough to hit back, anyway.

[Kromulan]

Ahh, many excellent replies!
I saw someone mentioned the arabian light infantry. . . I had forgotten about them. Excellent skirmishers and one possible leg of my Saba anti-(Baktrian) cataphract triangle. . . I used them as bait for the cats so my Indian guildsmen could swarm without having to endure a charge! They hold up remarkably well in melee with the cats. Don't do any damage, but they don't die nearly as quickly as most other units I tried that with. . .
Love the Saba bodyguards as well. I had several battles with grey/yellow death where the bodyguards were the only units that didn't rout. Fun stuff!

I see many folks like the Gallic elites. For some reason, I just can't get into the Gallic factions (not even in vanilla). I'll have to give it another shot.


Welcome to the forum Mecha.

[Minister of Fear]

Having played the following factions (Pontus, Hayasdan, Baktria, and now Epeiros) I'd say:
Skirmishes: Thrakian Peltasts (but I'm looking forward to trying out the Agrianian Assault Inf soon)
Archers: Bosphoran heavy archers (Scythian Foot Archers are very good value)
Hoplite/ Phalangite: Hellenic Medium Phalanx of whatever type
Shock infantry: Elite Thracian Infantry (but I'm looking forward to getting Scordisci Elite Infantry soon)
Missile Cav: any horse archer is great (you just give them as much exp. as you can and they cut up inf. stacks one turn and retreat and then you attack with your inf. & heavy cav or you just cut them to pieces again with your cav. stack the next turn.)
Med. cav: Baktrian Med Cav (horse archer varieties of med cav are excellent too)
Heavy Cav: Kinsmen Cav. Power at a modest price.

[Hooahguy]

my favorite- heavy infantry.... unless when theyre being pelted by arrows or rocks....

[Eyes330]

Well I've only played seriously with Casse, a tiny bit of Makedon(in 1.0), and Saba (in 1.1) so I have little or no experience with cavalry, but here's what I have

Missile: Arab Slingers/Archer-Spearmen - They proved essential to conquer arab rebel towns. Specifically to take out those pesky Sabean nobles, before my infantry rush in.

Light Infantry- Red Sea Light Infantry(Technically H. Inf on the battlefield )- What's not to love about guys with battleaxes charging into a load of missile units (or any units for that matter)

Heavy Infantry- Milnaht. Couldn't have taken Germany without these guys. A very good all-round unit.

Cavalry- Makedon Strategos - Won a lot of tight battles with these.

[Elmetiacos]

Subeshi archers. Put them on a hill, shoot the enemy, withdraw from the battle, rinse and repeat.

[socal_infidel]

Parthian Horse Archers and Parthian Early Bodyguard. Conquered up to Mesopotamia with just them back in 1.0.

And I'll always have a soft-spot for Scythian Horse-Archers back from my 1.0 Hayasdan campaign. Heroic victory after heroic victory using them and the Armenian Early Bodyguards against the Grey Death.

I'm half-tempted to pick up a unit or two of them as mercs in my current Mak campaign. But they'll look out of place in my planned Egyptian invasion.

[KhaziOfKalabara]

Well, it changes on a fairly regular basis (mainly on the basis of what's happening in my current campaign), but at the moment I'm loving
- Scythian foot archers: I recruited a couple of these in Chersonesos in my current Mak campaign as the honour guard for the Basileos in his little Bosphoran "coming of age" campaign, before transferring the city to the KH to revive them (and keep them alive if I want to grab Rhodos). I like the way they look, I like the way they fight, and when each one falls a little piece of me dies.
- Thureophoroi: Fairly rubbish, but they look good, and I still have a soft spot for them after a unit of them killed the last living descendant of Pyrrhos with their javelins as his unit of Somatophylakes was charging into them, winning me a battle in seconds his the entire army routed.

I'm still on 1.0 so hopefully neither have changed too much in 1.1... or can be replaced in my affections by other units

[The Celtic Viking]

Sweet! Another celt lover

There are three kinds of people, my friend: those who know they're Celt lovers, those who has yet to find out that they are and those who are in denial.

[fenix3279]

There are three kinds of people, my friend: those who know they're Celt lovers, those who has yet to find out that they are and those who are in denial.

Too right, mate

[Hooahguy]

do the celts include the getai?

[fenix3279]

Sure, why not?

[Ayce]

do the celts include the getai?

They will when the celts bow to Zamolxis' supremacy!

ΖΑΜΟΛΞΟΥ

[Hax]

There are three kinds of people, my friend: those who know they're Celt lovers, those who has yet to find out that they are and those who are in denial.

Pah! The true sons of Seleukos will never admit you barbarian scum! The sacred light of Megas Alexandros will scourge the Celts from Europa!

[Hooahguy]

Pah! The true sons of Seleukos will never admit you barbarian scum! The sacred light of Megas Alexandros will scourge the Celts from Europa!

HA! in your dreams! who lasted longer, the clets or the greeks?

[Korlon]

History has not treated the Keltoi as well as the "civilized" nations, but we certainly can! Go Celts! (And the Thraikians)

[Hooahguy]

celts FTW!

[The Celtic Viking]

Pah! The true sons of Seleukos will never admit you barbarian scum! The sacred light of Megas Alexandros will scourge the Celts from Europa!

Pff! You were only lucky that the Galatians didn't come in bigger numbers, or your whole beloved Seleukid kingdom would've become a Celtic colony. You've got nothing on us, self-denier!

[fenix3279]

I get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside when us celts band together against a common foe. Celts ftw! (sorry hax)

[Hax]

Pff! You were only lucky that the Galatians didn't come in bigger numbers, or your whole beloved Seleukid kingdom would've become a Celtic colony. You've got nothing on us, self-denier!

Elephantes Kataphraktoi Indikoi.

Antiochos shall send the Keltoi scum back to the black forests from whence they came!

I get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside when us celts band together against a common foe. Celts ftw! (sorry hax)

That's right, go drink yourselves to death in your stinking taverns! But do not expect us Hellenes to save you when the Romaioi barge in your door!

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Light infantry: Thureophoroi. Very handy in early game, not too expensive and good to act as a flanker.
Heavy infantry: Sreni Pattya Yoddaha. They mince up everything that dares to come close

Archers: Toxotai Syriakoi. A great range, and quite well-armored. I used them during my anti-Pahlavan campaign. (Seleukidai)

Phalangites: Pezhetairoi. They won't let anything through, and they've won me multiple big wars.

Artillery: Elephantes Indikoi. Just keep them away from archers and slingers and they'll crash through a line of cavalry. I've slaughtered multiple Ptolemaioi with them.

And last, but certainly not least:

Harmata Drepanephora: The most underrated unit in EB, if I may say so. I've loved them ever since they destroyed Ptolemaios II and his entire bodyguard.

[The Celtic Viking]

Elephantes Kataphraktoi Indikoi.

Antiochos shall send the Keltoi scum back to the black forests from whence they came!

How typical of you cowards to bulk up on so much armour, only because you fear death. We brave Celts, we have our Gaesatae! Huge lumberbusters like your stinking elephants are no match for them.

[Parallel Pain]

What ever all you infantry types. We nomadic types are the ancestors to the largest continuous land empire in history.

[Ayce]

While the Celts and Greeks go to each other's throats starting a world war, Dacia is happily developing and benefiting from arms exports...

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My favorite would be the AP shock infantry, namely Rhomphaiaphroi, who I can confirm they annihilate the Thorakitai Agema Basili-something.

[Spartan198]

Bah! All you Keltoi will look with grim sadness upon the day when you unwashed barbaians set foot in Hellas!

Wave after wave of Gaesatae will SMASH against Spartan shields, and your losses will be so great that you'll be forced to abandon your campaign!

[fenix3279]

A typical reply of one who fights from behind a shield and inside a cocoon of armor! You spartans are a dying race. With each year that passes, a little more of you withers away. We Celts are here to finish the job! Now come out of your cities and face us like true men you boy-lovers!

[Ayce]

Lovin' this OT war, profitable too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVgWe6HraQ

[Spartan198]

A typical reply of one who fights from behind a shield and inside a cocoon of armor! You spartans are a dying race. With each year that passes, a little more of you withers away. We Celts are here to finish the job! Now come out of your cities and face us like true men you boy-lovers!

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[Woreczko]

Meh, my vote goes to PANTODAPOI PHALANGITAI! Never have been masses transformed into battle units so cheaply and effectively!

[fenix3279]

IT'S WAR!

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[Rovert]

I have to go with the Gallic&Galtian Naked Fanatic Infantry, I use 2 groups of this regular as flank protection and usally play as KH and it out peforms the Generals and Spartans in real hard core battles

Nothing like Intimidated By Nearby Enemy Infantry