Quote Originally Posted by Grriffon View Post
Sorry for the double post, but after reading back through the thread I wanted to reply to this.


Yes. Pretty much any of the senate "missions" would be more important, for me, than Saba.

Until this thread, I have NEVER seen anyone defend Saba. Their family member bodyguard is very weak, and their unit selection is very limited. I don't say this just to infuriate whoever designed the Saba faction, but if you are asknig for ways to improve EB, then either scrap Saba and reintroduce some fun missions that a variety of factions could take advantage of, or improve the Saba faction unit selection and bodyguard.

I was just stunned how many people are defending Saba in the thread here, when I have never seen a pro-Saba post before this.


edit: and yes, I have played Saba. I didn't conquer the world as them, because I found them rather weak and boring, but I did try playing them.

edit2: again, i hope this post doesn't come off as offensive to the EB team. I love your game. Just offering opinions on ways to improve it.
Ummm...gonna have to disagree with that statement. This post, while not particularly lengthy or eloquent, was meant as a type of "defense" or endorsement for having the Saba as a faction. They serve a great purpose for me, as I usually play AS, Pontos, Hayasdan, and Pahlava. If they did not exist, playing the diplomacy game in the Levant would be impossible, since you can't have diplomatic relations with Eleutheroi (rebels/independents/bandits). If I didn't take them on as a "junior partner", I'd be spending my turns fighting off repetitive Ptolemaioi stacks that can't beat my armies, but clog up my turns so that it takes hours just to play 2 turns or so. I like long campaigns, but there's just a limit on how many times I can stomach fighting the same boring-ass stack in the same boring-ass desert. As any of the factions I play, other than the AS, there would be no interest or historical plausibility for taking their lands. So there is another defense for the Saba.

PS. Have you read either of Berkeley Boi's Saba AARs ? Just that alone blows out the notion that "no one defends or cares about the Saba".