New to EB, some questions

[A_Dane]

Yeah, I felt like roleplaying a bit, without using FD, so I looked over the situation, and used my vast resources to balance out the power a little xD

Thinking of doing the same in Gallia, as the romans have somehow succeeded in vassalizing both of the gallic nations s:

EDIT: Also, even though this isn't really a challenging campaign, I'm having fun just looking around, building up and roleplaying :)

(Hamalcar Barca finally got a son, and have another guy with the Barca surname who also has a son, gonna be an interesting fight with the romans :P)

[Taedius]

The Romani is certainly a faction for us roleplayers. The only tricky part is getting your citicen infantry to the front as you expand, but even that is a question of roleplaying houserule: Our armies MUST be based around Roman infantry, if it's to be commanded by a FM. For the player who doesn't take such details into consideration, it matters less. It's a steamroler faction for the average gamer.

[Ca Putt]

meh getting factional troops to the front is always troublesome, exept for maybe the KH with naval supermacy^^

getting the citizens to the front is much more tiresome as Sweboz, Getai or saba. Romans even got the advantage of having a lot of coastal cities in their homeland.

[fomalhaut]

i can't imagine playing something like EB without some house rules!!!! who the heck would go through the trouble of getting the mod to work and just ignore all the complexities and good qualities of the mod to just play it like freakin' vanila RTW!

simple ones like not recruiting Klerouchi til a colony has been established, disbanding Klerouchi Pikemen after 1-2 years, etc.

no retraining, etc.

the only units i keep in between 'services' are elite agema to accompany the royal family and to place in important cities. Some Thracian mercenaries are a must just because of the cool factor :P

also a unit of Elite pikemen or infantry can only be trained at the end of a campaign when all the other pikemen have gained much experience and are being disbanded to be sent back to their homes, i just rp that due to some of their conspicous valour they are granted larger land grants and allowed to join the Agema Klerouchon

[TheLastDays]

Yeah RPing and House ruling go hand in hand especially with the Romani I think...

In my current Romani campaign I have three consular armies ready to work but only one FM currently has sufficient rank to command them... and he's in his seventies so I'm a little nervous about what to do in a couple of turns... Even if house ruled and RPed Romani still might not be too challenging, it's a lot of fun at least