Most Difficult to Conquer

[Cute Wolf]

India: Facing 9 chevroned Elephant general with 60 soldiers (meaning more than 20 elephants) is suicide with my almighty HA army... or even with my puny 18 men elephants... and if I try swarming them with akontistai, gund-i palta or peltastai, they are slaughtered from that wall towers first... lost 400++ men for takin a general is really a pain...

[ARCHIPPOS]

India: Facing 9 chevroned Elephant general with 60 soldiers (meaning more than 20 elephants) is suicide with my almighty HA army... or even with my puny 18 men elephants... and if I try swarming them with akontistai, gund-i palta or peltastai, they are slaughtered from that wall towers first... lost 400++ men for takin a general is really a pain...

starve them out man... let hunger work for you... 8 turns later when their army is reduced to half go in and finish them off

[Cute Wolf]

Pheewww, and for my choice the steppes definately, for a hardcore infantry fan the steppes are hell itself, home to cowards!

Steppes are hell? just place some slingers (ol plain sphendonetai) or Thureophreantes toxotai (never use plain sux toxotai) (easily obtainable from Cherosonesos and pantikapaion) behind your line of Hoplitai... use 7 or 8 missile infantry and HA's will be easy... just don't forget to bring ya oldie hippeis and hippakontistai for dealing with heavier cav and cleaning up the mess...

EDIT : I learn up how to smack steppe army with just infantry based army because my HA army once had an utter defeat against (believe it or not) AI Seleukid army that comprises mostly of slingers... trully utterly epic defeat... so I try to use that tactic myself afterwards...

EDIT AGAIN: HA's are cowards? you re cowards behind city walls! at least they are always fighting in open plains...

[Moosemanmoo]

I sense this has become slightly off topic....


For me the most difficult land to conquer is central europe
Militarily I voted for the steppe but psychologically I can't be arsed for the former
All those landlocked, heavily forested provinces strip my enthusiasm dry
No wonder I've never taken the Sweboz or the Getai anywhere

[Atraphoenix]

India, of course, have you ever met 2 units of indian elephants that have gold chevron?

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also their combination with scimatar archers (the assassins ) is a real nightmare!

[Andy1984]

Note to myself: make sure you have sufficient artillery before you enter India.

Most difficult, less rewarding area? That must be the steppes for reasons mentioned above.

A good second would be Gaul. Pretty agressive, frightening soldiers (who are even pretty well armoured in the late game), paid by the full treasury of the Aedui. Worst of all: there are hardly any mines to be found there...

[Cute Wolf]

Steppe aren't rewarding? ? ?
well, I spent many times as nomads, so the nomadic units are great for sticking their arrows and gigantic toothpicks into some tin canned men...

even with KH or Makedon, I still steppe areas are worth conquering, especially those Sauromatae lands... as they didn't had many peoples, and easily defendable against their previous owner, just by building filmsy stick walls, and put some local archers inside... well, usually I go out there to amass my HA army to be marched down against another civ faction... Have u seen a Makedonian / Epeiros army that was all Cav? think of Hetairoi fighting alongside many types of HA's to turn the Romans into arrow cushions! well, that's pretty beautiful!:

[Mikhail Mengsk]

My final vote goes to Germania. Too poor, too forests, tactics gone wild and useless in those deep forests...

[Irishmafia2020]

No offense, but I was really enjoying the original discussion about the most difficult area to conquer in EB. I wrote several dedicated posts arguing that it was the steppes (especially the eastern part). Surely nobody is arguing that Sparta is the most difficult place to conquer in the game? Perhaps we should add Lakedaimonia to the poll...

[ARCHIPPOS]

No offense, but I was really enjoying the original discussion about the most difficult area to conquer in EB...

my feelings exactly ...

[Mikhail Mengsk]

In steppes you try some tactic to fight nomads. In German forests you'll be damn lucky just to know where the hell your troops ARE.