How do I break the Roman-campaign addiction?

[Intranetusa]

Ever since EB version .7 or something, I've been playing only the Romani
campaigns for nearly every version. I'm sorry :(

I don't know why but I just get addicted to Roman historical expansion. What other factions can you recommend me to play? I want it to be difficult - I was thinking of playing Macedonia, but I don't like to use sarissa phalanx units because the AI just sends their troops on frontal suicide missions against phalanx units.

And I'm not sure about other steppe/barbarian factions because they might be incomplete. What do you recommend?


P.S. Can someone direct me to a EB-BI installation guide for EB 1.1?

[||Lz3||]

I used to play only romani but then I got a lil bored and by the same time the new historical battles were released so... I started an AS campaign and it was goOd...

but then I had the curiosity to play as pahlava , and men those rock!

I beated 1300 seleukid troops with 100 horse archers xD

[Rilder]

Small thing I'm planning to do once I get done with my current pontos campaign to help me get into other factions.

First.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

1.Aedui
2.Casse
3.Koinon
4.Lusotannon
5.Saba
6.Averni
7.Sweboz
8.Getai
9.Seluecia
10.Makedonia
11.Carthage
12.Romani
13.Bactria
14.Parthia
15.Hayasdan
16.Saka
17.Ptolmies
18.Pontos
19.Sarmatia
20.Epeiros

Next go Here (Randomly picks a number between 1 and 20.)

Whichever faction gets selected you HAVE to play for at least 50 Turns (12 and a half years)
Of course theres exceptions for factions you've played recently. But its a good way to introduce yourself to new factions I'd think.

[||Lz3||]

I tried the random number and I got 12 (Romani)
destiny wants me to bring glory to the republic! !!

[Intranetusa]

btw, I have an unrelated question. How do I gear my EB 1.1 for BI?

I installed the "EB trivial script" so it no longer has the data path to RTW.exe
it just leads to "eb trivial script.exe"

[||Lz3||]

what if you try ferromancer's intaller?
minimod forum

[Recoil]

I tried the random number and I got 12 (Romani)
destiny wants me to bring glory to the republic! !!

haha same, had a lil chuckle when i saw that on my screen too

[Jolt]

haha same, had a lil chuckle when i saw that on my screen too

Exactly the same. Phreaps that site wishes us to lead the Romans to gloreh!

[konny]

I don't know why but I just get addicted to Roman historical expansion. What other factions can you recommend me to play? I want it to be difficult - I was thinking of playing Macedonia, but I don't like to use sarissa phalanx units because the AI just sends their troops on frontal suicide missions against phalanx units.

In this case you should try KH. I somehow find them very much related to Rome unitwise.

And I'm not sure about other steppe/barbarian factions because they might be incomplete. What do you recommend?

Incomplete?!? Absolutly not. Just try out the Sweboz, they are my second "most fun faction" after the Romans.

[Che Roriniho]

Saka Rauka. Crazy Fun. Imagine killing an entire full stack army wth 300 HAs and you have an idea of what to expect. Oh, and the Cataphract HA's are the most ridiculously fun and dangerous unit ever inventewd ever.

EDIT: Never tried them, but maybe have a go at Hayasdan? Just looking through their unit roster, and it all looks rather good.

[Hegix]

Hayasdan. They are hard to start with and, just like the romans, they get fun reforms. They are also possible to play in very different ways. Native phalanxes, horse archers, heavy cavalry and good foot archers. Even "imitation legionaires" if that's what you like.

[Intranetusa]

Saka Rauka. Crazy Fun. Imagine killing an entire full stack army wth 300 HAs and you have an idea of what to expect. Oh, and the Cataphract HA's are the most ridiculously fun and dangerous unit ever inventewd ever.

Oh yeh, I've been there. XD
In my Romani campaign, I was able to hire about 2 full stacks of merc horse archers (40 units) over the course of 10-15 years. I used my HA army and completely annihilated 5-6 full (15,000-20,000 troops) stacks of Getai and Seleucid armies while suffering less than 500 casualities overall.

Then I got bored on how overpowered the HorseArcher is with proper micromanagement and crappy AI, so I sent them to Sicily as a 40 unit strong garrison army against Cartage. :D

[pezhetairoi]

Oh yeh, I've been there. XD
In my Romani campaign, I was able to hire about 2 full stacks of merc horse archers (40 units) over the course of 10-15 years. I used my HA army and completely annihilated 5-6 full (15,000-20,000 troops) stacks of Getai and Seleucid armies while suffering less than 500 casualities overall.

Then I got bored on how overpowered the HorseArcher is with proper micromanagement and crappy AI, so I sent them to Sicily as a 40 unit strong garrison army against Cartage. :D

You should try them against their own kind and see if you're still laughing after. :D

I did what you did as the Romans and loved it. Then I thought I could try my silver chevroned HAs against Sauromatae and regretted it. :\ Lost a full quarter against a mixed army involving Cat HAs half my size.

[Fondor_Yards]

You should give the Lusotannon a try then. Similar but different.

[konny]

EDIT: Never tried them, but maybe have a go at Hayasdan? Just looking through their unit roster, and it all looks rather good.

Hayasdan is excellent, provided you survive the first 20 years.

It is the most Western HA faction, what means that you also have decent infantry to use. The reforms make the game very much like a Roman campaign: you need a first reform to get your better troops at all and before a (set of) second reform(s) you can only recruite factional troops in a few provinces around Armenia. When going on conquest during this time you have to use regionals in huge numbers (what means masses of Pantodapoi Phalangitai and the like).