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    Satalextos Basileus Seron Member satalexton's Avatar
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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    thats y i love this forum, people actually get stumped intellectually instead of being n00bed at.




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    I love it when people wax lyrical about the Romans, its just so gushing; as if the Romans were their lover, this great and wonderful man who just seems too good to be true. And the Seleucids! Superpower? Only for like 150 years. Blip, just a blip.

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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    I actually played the Getae (Dacians) first. They are quite a fun faction in my opinion, and seeing as Illyrians are not in as a faction, at least the Getae are the most similar availible.


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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    Baktria, actually. I was inspired by hooahguy's AAR and the unique unit choices they possessed. Will have to play them again some day, now that I've got a handle on EB economics. I won, but didn't get to use all their units.
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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    The Romans from a much earlier release (can't remember now but probably .74 or something)

    They have always had a good position and what is more, an excellent and involving trait and reform system (it got better with the last two releases). The challenge with the Romans is not to conquer x number of territories, but to get the reforms naturally. It becomes a story that is so involving.

    I've played the Casse to the VCs, the Sweboz and the Pahlava as my first 1.1 campaign and am currently giving the Macedonians a go. None have grabbed me as much as the Romans.

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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    lol, Foot.

    true, though, the seleucids are way too ignored, tbh. i started as the ptolemaioi, got confused after 3 turns, and eased into EB with the romani

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    Default Re: What faction did you play first?

    I can certainly understand the amount of people who choose Romani as their first faction. In the complex mod of EB, it's safe to choose something that you know fairly well from before, and it's also one of the easier factions to start out with. A good choice, far better than for instance Saka or Hayasdan where you're likely to go bankrupt and/or be destroyed within 30 years as a newcomer.

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