Import/export business

[Darius]

So what unit(s) do you go out of your way to get? Does it determine your rate and direction of expansion or do you send out an expeditionary force far from your lands to take a colony where you can build them? I remember back when I used to constantly be shipping Cretan archers and Scythian Riders to my legions, first as auxiliary's and then a continuous stream of replacements when needed. Lately I'm not sure if I've just become more practical or lazy but I've just started using whatever happens to be regionally recruitable in order to cut down on the logistics nightmare.

[mountaingoat]

i usually just use whatever is available in the region , though now and then when the money is flowing in and i have and some FM's spare , i will attempt to field a "royal" factoinal army and charge it out on war path, though i do not really replace them with units from the homeland. ( too far to march ).

[Titus Magnus]

as romans, i always use elephants from carthage while fighting celts, works well but kind of role-play-ish, in my mind they are devasting to the barbarians who have never "seen the elephant". Lots of Iberians when fighting in egpyt, idk why but it's kool for me,and some sarmatian horse archers.

[Mikhail Mengsk]

I use only the units i could train in my own regions, without colonizing very far. I tend to specialize my cities, in order to be able to recruit a vast range of different units.

Obviously, it depends on the faction i've taken. If i took Carthage, i would send some army to establish a colony far away.

[Fierro]

If playing as a European faction and I get a family member who is either getting bad traits because of age or because of his personality I sometimes take him on a tour of eastern Europe to bring back some horse archersand other various useful units I may find on the road

[A Very Super Market]

I have an obsession with keeping my units at full health, so I will constantly ferry them back to my homelands, retraining them, and then sending them off again. Huge, ineffecient, and possibly dangerous (Leaves my frontiers very weak) process, but I like my phalangites with 242 men.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I have an obsession with keeping my units at full health, so I will constantly ferry them back to my homelands, retraining them, and then sending them off again. Huge, ineffecient, and possibly dangerous (Leaves my frontiers very weak) process, but I like my phalangites with 242 men.

Same here, except that I take a more practical and efficient approach, having a halfstack of reinforcements follow my fullstack of main forces. And then more reinforcements on their way. If I had to ferry my units back and then again... Considering the size of my EB Empires...