Most boring faction to play as

[Moosemanmoo]

Just wondered, mine would unfortunately be the Sauromatae, I just can't be arsed to take them past turn 3

[johnhughthom]

I've never been able to play the Sauromatae either, those huge spaces between settlements just make me think "Gah!".

[Moosemanmoo]

Amen to that, I think it's the fact that I wanna fill some Romans full of lead/arrows, though I know that will never happen

[Tyrfingr]

I have actually never even tried the Sauromatae...or the Saka...or the Ptolemaioi (Egypt is an old hate-faction from vanilla of mine). Casse is also boring as hell...

[A Very Super Market]

Casse? I started a campaign as them. You really need to roleplay, otherwise, it's very tedious.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Sauromatae because of the space. Saba because of the lack of history and work on that faction, as well as their lacking and lousy roster. And their position. AS because of their already large empire, especially the depressingly boring Eastern territories, and also because of their pike phalanxes and the elite spam that you can execute using them. Although it is quite interesting to fight those desperate battles against nomads. Ptolemaioi are another faction that is too large to be interesting.

Sometimes I also feel that KH has too powerful of a unit roster to be worth playing and to be a challenge. Not to mention their spread-out recruitment pool; typical of Hellenic factions. But they are quite interesting to play otherwise, so no complaint. Casse have a bad starting position, but I still like the Goidilic units they have access to (once EDU is modded). I also felt the the Sweboz roster was lacking, but I suppose I would welcome the challenge myself. Not to mention, regionals and a quick EDU mod to give their pikes the phalanx formation would fix it. I still do not like the deep forests nevertheless...

Otherwise, everything else is fine. Oh, and yes, Yuezhi seemed sort of boring when they were around.

[Ghaust the Moor]

I don't have the attention span to play as the Sarmations. Also, who are the Yuehzi?

[Constantius III]

Also, who are the Yuehzi?

Ancestors of the Kushan Empire, in EB they pop up in the northeast corner of the map as scripted Eleutheroi stacks about 130 years into the game. They used to be a faction but got cut out after the team decided that it would be too ahistorical to have them within the confines of the EB map before they actually got there in real life.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

In a dark, dark past I once played Romaioi. The only time I quitted voluntarily after having effortlessly become filthy rich and unstoppable. Didn't even wait for Polybians.

[Vasiliyi]

Huh, Id have to say that ive never actually played more than a few turns as Saba, Ptoli's, Saroa's and lusos.

Although, in the back of my mind i plan on writing an aar for the Sarmatia some day.

[Beefy187]

I've played almost all the faction until I get filthy rich and bored.

Only exception would be The Romans and the Sauromatians.
I enjoy fighting Romans, as its a good challenge so I usually avoid them.

Sauromatians are good fun. But eventually I got bored of Steppe warfare. Pahlava, Hay and Saka gives you decent land force so I usually end up playing them.

[Aemilius Paulus]

In a dark, dark past I once played Romaioi. The only time I quitted voluntarily after having effortlessly become filthy rich and unstoppable. Didn't even wait for Polybians.

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc). That is the satalexton in you speaking.

[penguinking]

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc).

Wrong!

Ok.. if you guess what faction I am then I'll give you a balloon


Autumn 266BC

No.. not KH

Actually Moros mentioned them already.. so he really should get the balloon

Yes.. I'm Romani.. on the little island called Corsica..

How I ended up there?? Well.. you need to have some skill to loose as a Romani and looks like I have that skill

My southern legion was defeated by the Epirotes because they brought(or recruited?) reinforcements and when I finally attacked them there was too large of a force against me..

Foolishly I used my northern army to attack Corsica (I wanted to spice up my game!).. My navy was defeated by the Carthagian navy and I was stranded on that island. Before I managed to get a new legion the Carthagian army near Lilibaeo came and attacked Capua and then Rome.. Because I was in dept when that happened I had no chance to recruit any units to protect my northern cities and they too fell to the Carthagians.. Epirote managed to get Arpi in the same time when Carthage took Rome..

There is one good thing in this campaign actually.. the Carthage and Epirotes are at war now.. Epirotes took Capua and are heading south against Rhegion(Carthagians just took it last turn)..

Have to say that this have been one of the most interesting campaigns because I have never seen Carthage to become so powerful so fast..

[Moros]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

[Ibrahim]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

well, it is boring..at least early on. but it certainly isn't the most boring.

problem is the lack of funds. I'm playing it right now, and I had to disband my army 5 times now to keep it all afloat.

but it gets fun once you conquer 4 settlements.

say, how on earth does one train those elephants? I know you can get them in saba, from africa... I think its type III or IV, but I'm not sure

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc). That is the satalexton in you speaking.

Yes I WAS OK with teh Romanz, but then happened what I said. And that was the best to happen, since I immadiately started my first Makedonian campaign, and that's basically what made me the fantastic dude I am today.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

I did . Everyone knows that. Which is why Saba was and is on the top of that EB II thread which basically asks which EB faction least deserves its place IOHO (in our humble opinion).

But, I do remember you saying that Saba will be revamped in EBII, with many new units.

[Satyros]

I would have to agree about Saba , I really prefer to wander in the steppe , if I am to choose between wastelands that is .

On the other hand I absolutely hate playing with the Empires at the start of the game : Carthage , Ptolemy , Seleukeia . Haven't managed to get to turn 3 with them .

After all , you get to kick their collective butt as KH , my absolutely favorite faction ( except for the fact that my Spartan Generals don't get to have Spartan bodyguards later in the game - oh the tragedy , boo-hoo )

Satyros

[ARCHIPPOS]

3 most boring choices:
1) Seleukids ...just the idea of managing 20+ cities every turn from turn 1 kills my motivation for playing them... I prefer starting small ,then building up ...

2)Casse ... though i really like them as afaction and they get a great starting position their economy is just too lousy during the first decades... weak economy+weak starting army=not much action...o and their charriot command is possibly the lousiest unit in EB (looks cool though)

3)the Romans... i got soooooo bored of them after playing the Julii and Brutii RTW campaigns...

[satalexton]

The Romaioi, it was simply a point, a grunt, then a WAAAGH!!! They're better off digging in mines or serving as pack animals.

[MerlinusCDXX]

The Romaioi, it was simply a point, a grunt, then a WAAAGH!!! They're better off digging in mines or serving as pack animals serving as practice targets.

Quoted for half-truth. They make shitty pack animals compared to my steppe ponies. I've corrected the quote underlined text=line-through.

[Maion Maroneios]

Romaioi.

Maion

[Blxz]

I think the getai suck. I united all their thracian people so I could get that trait for the faction leader but I just could give enough of a damn to even care after that. Didn't even save the game coz I hate them too much. And I hate their colour. And their units. And their location.

EDIT: And their victory conditions.

[mountaingoat]

to the poster above ......


getai have an awesome unit roster and can choose (from the start) to battle the steppe , the celts , hellenes or the dirty romans !

+ falx ftw

[Zim]

I can never bring myself to play most of the big empires, especially the Seleucids and Ptolemies, although I like their unit rosters...

I did have a fun Carthage game where I abandoned everything but Carthage (or Carthage and the two closest settlemetns to it, I'll have to check my old saves to find out...). I also have a fun Romani game where I've had little money and found myself being invaded by full stacks by sea constantly. Just taking it very slowly seems to have helped make it more challenging.

[Jebivjetar]

Playing as romaioi is boring as hell.
Playing against them, make them suffer... well that's another story.

[Mikhail Mengsk]

Can you write one post without "blah blah hate romaioi blah blah"? It's boring after the 152nd post.

[Jebivjetar]

Can you write one post without "blah blah hate romaioi blah blah"? It's boring after the 152nd post.

I try, man... but it just ain't work

[Mikhail Mengsk]

well this time you did it XD

[Jebivjetar]

well this time you did it XD