[EB MP]3.0 Thread - Testing and Updates

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 08-24-2011, 04:01

Yeah, Greeks, Asians, and Steppe along with Sweboz have not been completed yet.

On a side note, Saba should get an archer unit which is not levy quality. Perhaps make Ethiopians in the same vein as Numidians? After all, Ethiopia was famous for high quality archer units. Arabs were as well, so maybe the Archer-Spears should be more in the middle tier and leave levy job for Sabean Archers?

**gamegeek2** · 08-24-2011, 09:05

Arabs weren't famed archers in Hellenstic-era sources I can recall (except mounted on camels), but the bow certainly was one of the main weapons wielded by the Sabaean nobility (not the javelin as far as I can recall), along with spears and fine, slender swords. Sadly I can't create a noble archer unit.

Now, Nubia was famed for its archers as far back as Ancient Egypt. Again the existing archer unit is an Ethiopian one, but if you want me to stat it as an axe armed, good quality Nubian archer rather than a club armed Ethiopian one, I could do that.

**Lazy O** · 08-24-2011, 09:20

Yea that woould be good. Previously, a big advantage Saba had was the ability to spam alot of archers. That is useless now and you are basically forced to use eles which the opponent can expect and bring a simple 810 levy unit to counter them.

**vartan** · 08-24-2011, 09:49

Why does the Saba faction need to be on par with the other factions?

**Brave Brave Sir Robin** · 08-24-2011, 14:24

Originally Posted by vartan

Why does the Saba faction need to be on par with the other factions?

It doesn't need to be, but it should at least be playable. Saba without decent archers is basically asking to be javelined to death.

Also, I feel as if 36k still works for this new edu. We havn't gotten half of the factions yet so I will reserve judgement on that, but at 36k, good quality armies are still a possibility for western factions.

**gamegeek2** · 08-24-2011, 17:44

Making Saba playable is almost a lost cause, IMO. If people wanted to play as an Arab faction, we could create one using the Eleutheroi - the Nabatu. Several units could act as effective stand ins for historical Nabatean units - the Sacred Band Cavalry as Agema troops, for example. Their actual army would be a mix of Hellenistic troops and tribal Arabs.