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    Descendant of great Herakles Member Torvus's Avatar
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    Default Re: Favorite phalanx-based faction?

    Quote Originally Posted by Phalanx300 View Post
    The Bull Terrier is a mix of alot of things, the Mollosian dog was a far ancestor which was imported to England.
    unless Bull Terriers are related to Mastiffs, I find this highly unlikely. The Molossus is considered to be an ancient forerunner of the mastiff type dogs we know today.

    which is one of the reasons I dislike Eperios, along with their lame green color. their emblem showing the hound looking like a greyhound just seems silly and unintimidating to me and their green color is not really something to inspire their troops.

    that being said, I love many of their units and would play as them if they still had the 202 sized Thorakitai units like they had in 0.8x
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    Default Re: Favorite phalanx-based faction?

    Quote Originally Posted by Torvus View Post
    unless Bull Terriers are related to Mastiffs, I find this highly unlikely. The Molossus is considered to be an ancient forerunner of the mastiff type dogs we know today.

    which is one of the reasons I dislike Eperios, along with their lame green color. their emblem showing the hound looking like a greyhound just seems silly and unintimidating to me and their green color is not really something to inspire their troops.

    that being said, I love many of their units and would play as them if they still had the 202 sized Thorakitai units like they had in 0.8x
    Well I have this Bull Terrier book which says so.

    I don't know whats exactly in it, its quite a mess.

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    I like especially macedonia, seleukia, greek city states, ptolmai and epeiros. At the moment i prefer epeiros 'cause of their excellent heavy cavalry which also has a great stamina if you compare them with hetairoi.
    Last edited by Flavius_Belisarius; 08-29-2009 at 10:40.
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    Default Re: Favorite phalanx-based faction?

    My favorite Phalanx-based faction of course are the Lysimachids. Oh, wait, I've been defeated before EB starts.

    Let's see then. I personally like combinations with distinct non-hellenic elements. I'm very sorry to say, this probably means for the great Makedons and Hellenes they come least in my list, because they are least barbaric...
    Anyway, despite of all things that can be said about unit composition and skins, starting locations and cultural identity, at the moment I'd probably always end up with Seleucids on top of the list, just because of the intense role-playing experience I have with them, due to my AAR. However, this could change if I started another one.
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