What faction are you currently playing?

[Vasiliyi]

fighting for my life against the AS as hayasdan :D

Dont use any sort of infantry, they are garbage. Try a mix of HA and fms. Nothing will be able to stop you.

[A_Dane]

thanks for the tip :)
Well i've had to use infantry as they attacked me before my economy even got running, but i've managed, now i've switched over to ha's, some archers and some meele infantry to hold the 1 or 2 elite phalanks in check (i know this isn't great, had a pontus campaign in an earlier version) but it's working, aint taking any serious casualties, but i'm switching to only ha's/fm's in a bit and use inf for garrisons :)

[Azathoth]

Dont use any sort of infantry, they are garbage. Try a mix of HA and fms. Nothing will be able to stop you.

Skirmishers, archers. and the weak phalanx Hayasdan has are incredibly useful against anything the AS sends up to Argraspidai, TAB, Peltastai Makedonikoi, etc. Georgian mercenaries also make very effective medium infantry.

[Chaotix]

Playing Casse, around 240 BC. I finally figured out that it's much easier if you disband and build up for about 10 years before you set off to conquer Britain.



Now I'm smashing the Sweboz out of Belgae lands. Still allied to both Gallic factions.

[HunGeneral]

It's actually more fun to hold to a certain border, and simply 'play amerikan/britannia'....keeping 'the balance and peace' between factions....and taking a lot of plunder along the way...which allows you to develop your holdings and put more power behind your diplomat's words.

Hmmm. Well that does sound good. I tried it some time ago, but I couldn't keep it up with a TW engine, and besides I always like to play like a "conquest driven Basileus/Warlord" who wants to rule the whole and forces all his descendents, heirs to prove there worthines by achieving great conquest of there own. (also destroying any faction that stands in there way) I always seem to head into a direction towards "wolrds conquest" after a time (only Europa Universalis III was able to "keep me steady" from overrunning anything I saw, althouhg I had to give up a campaign because every country of the world started to hate me - I was to inpatient, a mistake I had since been able to avoid)

I to dislike the Ptolmies for that reason. But ill give them another try sometime. I truly like the AS because they do have a difficult position and you have to take losses for a while before you have any sort of stable front, (except maybe the levant).

I like the As better then the Ptolies because they have more diverse units and they also are made to rule the conquests of Alexandros (they can build Type I govermnets in Alexandria, Pella and even Baktria and also trin there alite forces there) so are more rewarding if you survive the first decades.

I dislike the Ptolies for there historical role and deeds aswell as them always becoming a rival of mine in the east. This can be said for both Ptolies and AS. But my favourite camapign is always to overrun the first with the later... and then the East, Hellas, the Steppes, India and the rest of the world (insert evil)

[A_Dane]

Skirmishers, archers. and the weak phalanx Hayasdan has are incredibly useful against anything the AS sends up to Argraspidai, TAB, Peltastai Makedonikoi, etc. Georgian mercenaries also make very effective medium infantry.

10 min after posting, i defeated a seleucid army with ha's, basic phalanks, fm's ofc, and some cappadocian axemen, those guys really do some nasty shit if you get em in behind the phalanks :)

[Aemilius Paulus]

Whoa, WTH? The Romani just got a huge surge in votes?!? But how and why only now?

[Azathoth]

The Romani-lovers are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

[Kevin]

Huh, how do people play the Koinon Hellenon? I get bored of using the hoplites

[fleaza]

think twice

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Actually in the Ptolemaic kingdom Makedonians, Greeks and Galatians were used for war. It was only during reign of Ptolemy IV when a huge Seleucid army was approaching and there weren't enough soldiers that Egyptians were trained. And when these troops decided the Battle of Raphia and Egyptians realised that they are strong and the king is weak, years of revolts started.

yet the weak king of the ptolemaic kingdom managed to hold his empire until the roman civil war took egypt from them. the ptolemies never lost their kingdom althgouh it was usually in a weak state and an invasion from the seleucid empire, if not stopped by the romans, wouldve ended the ptolemaic dynasty( or probably would have).

the reason the egyptians never made big expansions even though they were extremely rich was because "they were a people more concerned with burying their dead, farming and worshipping the gods than blood and glory. when the pharaoh raised an army he would find them reluctant to fight, espcially in the monsoon season when they would normally be farming green fields in their land." - paul something, cant remember last name.

the egyptians also believed that if you werent buried properly with all the rituals then your soul would wonder forever in boredomland. if they died in some foreign country they would not get proper burial because the enemy isnt going to spend their money to bury their enemy so the egyptians hated fighting abroad.

[Celtic_Punk]

The Romani-lovers are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.

bwahahahahaha

yer my new bestfriend dude

[Alien of Germania]

Baktria and having a blast!!! Invading northern Saba provinces atm by sea to backdoor the Seleukids

[keiskander]

Huh, how do people play the Koinon Hellenon? I get bored of using the hoplites

Im playing the Koinon Hellenon and its dead fun and as you expand you can recruit native troops to the area to add other types of infantry and so on. Also good starting postition feels like you are in the center of the world.