Hey

I've been enjoying my Carthage campaign recently but I've got a question regarding the Sacred Band and the Elite Liby-Phoenician infantry units.

Both these units seem identical in almost all respects:

Same Stats
Same AOR
Same Numbers (well, one is one larger i think)
Same costs

The only significant difference is that the Sacred Band has a higher MIC requirement.



I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this and maybe the reason behind it. It just seemed a bit odd that a faction would have two identical units, with just a different mic level, and their visual appearance, to separate them.

Is there any reason to use one over the other besides visual preference?

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Sacred Band are Carthaginian citizens.
Elite Liby-Phoenicians are - indeed - Liby-Phoenicians...

Is their any reason to use spear unit A over spear unit B apart from chosing to have both in your army, to make it a balanced army or to represent the whole population of your empire?

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It's to represent the historical units. Evidently the liby-Phoeenician Elite and the sacred band were basically equal in terms of strength, so there stats represent this.

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Units that are basicly the same?
THIS IS HISTORICAL ACCURACY!

/me kicks a Lorica Segmenta into a hole.

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Aren't the sacred band infantry the ones that use the sarissa phalanx formation in the game while the elite liby-phonetician are the ones using the regular hoplite phalanx formation?

I think that's the major 'game mechanics' difference - not sure about history though

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no, they both use classical greek phalanx ingame.

my question was angled more towards the gameplay reasoning behind their same-ness (a la shouldnt one be weaker and cheaper and one be stronger and more expensive) but since it was done more for reasons of historical accuracy i understand.

thanks for answering

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That's awful. Try:

This is Accurate!

THIS! IS! EB!!!!

*Kicks Amazon chariots into well*

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