Official EB Tournement Thread

[antisocialmunky]

Did anyone fight them with an abudant number of javelineers and/or archers on a flat, non-forested terrain in any fight? I believe the fear was due to their ambushes, were they excell.

ASM doesn't play all factions, so he can't have a spherical oppinion on this.

Maion

Yeah they die horribly if they get strung out. That's why I limited skirmishers. To be honest, mass skirmisher harass isn't that effective since your opponent can just hold until you're out of ammunition.

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Maion

We could just trash the weapons upgrades, keep the chevrons, give all the N barbarians 8 elites, and allow barb players to quit maps without trees. I think also that the 36K price point is pretty balanced by itself but the barbarians really need an extra something to make up for the fact that they can't mass effectively. Besides, the N barbarians should be able to fight set piece battles to a certain extent. They certainly did many times and relied on mass, shock, and mobility:

-Brennus brought ~150K men into Greece in his campaign.
-Cimbri numbered as many as 200K during their initial migration into Roman lands.
-Gaeasatae numbered around 70K during their expedition in Italy.

You're asking for a double standard: The greeks have the ability to field the pinnicle of Hellenic armies, an Alexandrian Phalanx and supporting troops, while the N barbarians can't create huge masses of levy troops twice the size of the Mediterranian armies... Instead you want them to only be able to field armies that are small and have crap morale. That's like forcing the the Hellens to play at 30K where the Greeks get stomped.

That's not to say that they didn't use smaller armies with a larger professional core or anything like that...

Its too bad that the Getai and Sweboz players aren't around to help us test.

@Phalanx - Can oyu kick all the inactives in EBOT01?