Less Civilized Factions

[chenkai11]

play as Sweboz(the most "barbaric" faction afterall) get all VC provinces + rome, that's enough fun in the process and when you still cannot afford spamming Merc generals or after the reforms: heavy infantry^^, go and attack the casse with a fleet of weak and terribely overpriced ships.
non phalanx and non HA factions often are forced to use terrain to their advantage whereas Phalanxes and horse archer tactics work best on open fields with no obsicles whereas "barbaric" spearmen need the cover of the woods to hide or avoid arrows and can still use theri superior speed and mobility to ambush and outflank the foe.

That might just be one of the reason to help me start a campaign with barbarian faction. And yes, I was interested more in histories of those "more civilized" (for me) factions. I can see one of my problem is that I don't have a direction for them, I can't even think of what I want to do if I am going to lead their people. Unlike Hayasdan, I want to create a new Persian Dynasty. Carthaginians, I want to continue the colony and proof to the known world the might of Carthage. Greeks, united again and controlled all their previous colonies. All about changing history...

[J.R.M]

I believe that Arverni/Aedui´s reason to exist is unite Gaul and other celtic towns under their rule and then kick roman @ss, however Aedui feels that their are the only rulers of Gaul and the strongest and they should remain ruling it, Arverni alliance feels that the time of the Aedui has passed and they are no longer strong and able to rule Gaul so it´s time for a change. Sweboz just want to lead all german people and make it a European superpower, raiding and pillaging Gauls and Romans in the way (that´s pretty nice,). Getai wants to unite Thrace and make those Greeks fear them once more, conquering and pillaging them, etc (well that´s not cool). And Lusos wants to kick Carthaginians out of their Peninsula, conquering all iberian tribes and taking Ireland in the way also pillaging some north African towns i believe? Oh! i almost forget kick those Roman @sses! they will invade you sooner or later. And last but not less important, Casse tribe feels that all the Tin island should be theirs, some great money there.. Also they want some territory in Gaul. that´s all i believe, sooo CYA.

[Moosemanmoo]

What I keep thinking of doing is playing Sweboz and taking a horde of Germanic warriors over to Britain to play out the Anglo-Saxon invasion centuries early.

Angleland will be mine! The Casse can have smelly Wales and Scotland

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Beware with using the term "Unite" for a barbarian faction and its supposed geographic "natural border". There was no supra-national identity between the tribes that made them part of a single "Gaul" or "Thrace", so it is impossible that these can be more than just geographic terms. The correct wording would be akin to "subjugating" or "integrating" all other tribes into one dominant confederacy or a stronger tribe, e.g. the Arverni.

[Ca Putt]

+1 rule(i think if they were more politicized they would say unite ;) ) all tribes which are worthy of being ruled by you(as tribes of your blood and tounge will make less problems - you can build level 1 or 2 govs) and kill all that are not worthy of being ruled provided that they either pose a threat or occupy land which you want to settle on. an other plus on "barbaric" factions is that you CAN increase the difficulty level by invading certain regions(like the steppe or the alps)

imo the "plan" for most "barbaric" factions is basically:
1. "unite" the tribes
2. subjugate your neighbours(celts mostly)
3. ransack Rome or Hellas

after that you should either abandon the campaign or try to conquer the steppes

[Kevin]

I can't play barbarian factions that much because the game engine makes them feel like a Roman or Macedonian army but with different skins :/ I always felt they were more about ambushes, night attacks, and fighting more of a guerilla war than a conventional one.

[Macilrille]

Kevin, try to google "Arausio" or "Hadrianopolis"...

[Kevin]

Kevin, try to google "Arausio" or "Hadrianopolis"...

Haha, I'm not much of a history guy so whatever I know I got from movies Though those battles were interesting, they happened a while past EB times didn't they? Whatever