Quote Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin View Post
IMO this is why I play the original RTW multi still with one of my friends but we havn't played EB much. While the vanilla game is gimmecky, thats fine for MP, I don't care that Arcani are historically inaccurate, I just want to hide them and at the right moment spring them on his archers while he wonders where they came from. Also, it is a little more balanced cost wise for the units.
Is it really more balanced? I haven't played in a while, but I always got the impression that beating the Romans with "barbarian" troops in MP was pretty difficult.