Carthage Question: Sacred Band vs. Elite Liby-Phoenician Infantry

**Kasrkin519** · 08-14-2008, 17:49

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?

**Mediolanicus** · 08-14-2008, 18:03

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?

**Che Roriniho** · 08-14-2008, 18:27

Originally Posted by Mediolanicus

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?

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.

**Rilder** · 08-14-2008, 22:22

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

/me kicks a Lorica Segmenta into a hole.

**Intranetusa** · 08-14-2008, 23:28

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

**Kasrkin519** · 08-15-2008, 03:08

Originally Posted by Intranetusa

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

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