Re: Questions about Baktria...
Patience is a virtue when playing as baktria. You need to start out by taking kophen and then disbanding most of your army except you archers and a unit of pantodapoi phalangitai that you will use as a garison for baktra. The first thing you need to construct is a stone wall in Baktra. With stone walls, defended by persian archers and your bodyguards you will never lose that city. You then need to focus on constructing mines in kophen, building roads, and upgrading your mic's.
You should continue building up your cities for 20-30 years. After this you will be ready to build an army and go take those indian settlements to gain access to your indo-hellenic troops and those indian troops.
Your best army composition should be mostly native troops, supported by some heavy baktrian troops. My current army is
1 persian archers
2 pantodapoi phalangitai
2 Baktrian Light infantry
2 eastern skirmishers
2 dahae skirmisher cavalry
2 Kambojas
for the native portion of my army, and then
2 thorakitai
2 hoplitai indohellenikoi
2 peltastai indohellenikoi
2 Hetairoi kataphraktoi
1 indian archers
for the indo-hellenic portion of the army.
When the indian city has a better mic I will also change a couple of these units for indian guild infantry. I'm not sure when this will happen however, as I allow my Allied states to be autonomous.
The suggested difficulty is very hard campaign and medium battle, this is what I'm using in my current campaign.
As anubis said, a city in rome needs to be a huge city to get the hetairoi kataphraktoi. If you feel that you need them asap then a quick way to get it is to cheat "add_population Capua 4000" a few times each turn and then cheat "process_cq Capua" each turn. It should only take a few turns till you get your new bodyguards. Also, a glitch I noticed once in an old campaign was that one of my recruited generals got a hetairoi kataphraktoi unit when the reforms rolled around. Never seen it again though.
And the most important thing to remember is to have fun, great units, great spot, great colour, whats not to love?
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When did the EB team start animal brutality?Originally Posted by ARCHIPPOS
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