EBOT 2011 June

**The Celtic Viking** · 05-13-2011, 12:10

Combine them with mine and that's 0.04$. That was the reason why I didn't go as the Sauromatae in the last tournament, as I had originally planned to do. That coupled with the fact that their non-steppe quality is naturally lackluster makes it a rather gimped faction in need of attention.

**Burebista** · 05-13-2011, 12:24

I managed to do a competitive army with sauros , with 5 xerudonzes , but i could not touch the roxolani or sarmatian nobles , and that is rly sad

**vartan** · 05-13-2011, 17:29

Yes, I'll be putting those up not this weekend but the next. Also, you guys figure Sauro could actually have a decent civ composition army? I thought they were mostly horsemen and foot archers. Anyway, factional units are almost always the ones from the EB site. So after looking at the Sauro page, tell me what units you guys think should be added as 'factional' and why. And of course they must be on the MP roster, so check that first.

**The Celtic Viking** · 05-13-2011, 18:26

I'm not saying that they should have it, I'm just saying that they don't, which means the injury they suffer from the current regulations is all the more painful.

**vartan** · 05-13-2011, 23:39

Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking

I'm not saying that they should have it, I'm just saying that they don't, which means the injury they suffer from the current regulations is all the more painful.

They don't suffer any injury. The regulations account for steppe armies.

**The Celtic Viking** · 05-14-2011, 01:43

Originally Posted by vartan

They don't suffer any injury. The regulations account for steppe armies.

They do suffer an injury because they don't have non-missile cav which means that

a) instead of having a max of 12 cav as other steppe armies, they effectively have a max of 8 because of the limit on missile units
b) Bringing foot archers costs you a cavalry slot/unit

**vartan** · 05-14-2011, 03:05

Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking

They do suffer an injury because they don't have non-missile cav which means that

a) instead of having a max of 12 cav as other steppe armies, they effectively have a max of 8 because of the limit on missile units
b) Bringing foot archers costs you a cavalry slot/unit

Just took a look at the SAC. What would upping the total 'archers' number from 8 to 12 do? Would that resolve the issue, do you suppose? I'm guessing this is where the main gap is coming from.