Whats your favourite army to be and why?

[Project Spartan]

Whats your favourite army to be and why?


Personally i love being phalanx armies because its strongly relied on there infantry line (phalanx) Its just so much fun beating the over powered roman armies!

This is my video of Greece destroying romans! haha :) The use of phalanx to hold the enemy back!

[Tsar Alexsandr]

Probably the Scythians and Parthians. I have a severe addiction to cavalry. XD

Horse archers, good heavy cav, good light cav. Good archers are nice too. So probably I prefer Scythia. :D

[ReluctantSamurai]

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[ReluctantSamurai]

My favorite army looks like this:

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/a...rmenia02-1.jpg

Why? Because I can crush any army any faction decides to throw at it...and that would include an entire army of Spartans (and if you look in the topic where this screenie and others are posted [Cat Power], you'll see that this army stood off FOUR chariot-archer armies in succession on the same turn)

Scythia and Parthia have pretty good horse archers, but they don't stack up to these bad boys....

[Tsar Alexsandr]

You're right about that. The cataphract archers are amazing xD

As Armenia, I'll usually take those into battle instead of cataphracts. The regular kind. Those guys can do a lot of damage!

[ReluctantSamurai]

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[ReluctantSamurai]

It's always a good idea to have several "heavy" cats to support the horse archers. While you certainly can go with only cat archers, they don't have the charge bonus that the heavy cats do (3 for cat archers, 15 for the heavy cats). This means it will take longer to break heavy infantry, especially elite phalanx like Spartans, Royal Pike, Silver and Bronze Shields, or Sacred Band, and you will take higher losses.

The one unit that can give heavy cats problems in melee combat are the armored elephants. They are a handful if well led. Better to pepper them from a distance to whittle down their numbers.

[Tsar Alexsandr]

For the price of a few phalanx pikemen, some skirmishers, and some bowmen, you can by an elephant unit lol. So what I'm saying is I don't worry about elephants too much. A balanced army can usually beat em. Or at least get them to run amok.

If I can't afford to bring more cataphracts I'll just use the archers, but you're right the hand to hand ones do their role better. Lots of charge. Brutal maulers lol. Resilient against bows and missiles too.

[flyingeagle]

I have to say that my favorite factions are Pontus, Seleucid Empire, and Carthage.
They have good cavalry, good infantry, and good missile troops as well. Units like Poeni Infantry, Cataphracts, Pontic Heavy Cavalry etc. are the bomb!

[flyingeagle]

Double post, are you serious? -______-

[Tsar Alexsandr]

I didn't get the correlation at first, but you're right. :D

Pontus and the Seleucids are very well balanced. Carthage too. Fun factions. :D

[Myth]

Oh man, if we have to restrict units in RTW because of historical inaccuracy, we might as well not play RTW at all and go for EB. Rome is not that strong in multiplayer, go watch some of The Prince of Macedon's online battles to see how he beats them with Macedon or the Seleucids.

The guy is a douche and he likes posting games versus obviously inferior players, but there are good battles amongst his hundreds of posted videos. The Romans are a pain only if you're having a 30k denarii battle so they can fullstack Urbans and roll you over, but then again if we're abusing like that, someone massing Cataphracts or Cat Archers can win just as well.

[Tsar Alexsandr]

Hopefully Rome 2 will be more accurate, but RTW is a brilliant game for what it is. A lot of the mythical units aren't too far fetched either. A friend of mine was telling me that Marcus Aurelius had a pack of dogs he used in battle. (And they were even sculpted in a monument.) So the wardogs were never really... too far fetched. A person could unleash dogs on an opponent.

The Scythian Amazons, I think are totally legitimate. The Briton's head hurlers? Well while they did hurl heads into battle occasionally, a head was a prized trophy and would rarely be used in such a manner. Rome did have gladiators, what was to keep them from making units of them? Nothing really. The Arcani are a bit strange. Roman Ninjas. But I guess we can allow it. I can allow it, they're cool lol.

The strategy is still great, campaign map is good, and obviously it was a classic game. As much as I did like it, I do hope Rome II will be more accurate to history.

[ReluctantSamurai]

The inclusion of "fantasy" units does not bother me in the least.......as long as there is a way to disable the use of such units. I have to admit that even from STW-the original, I would occasionally use fantasy units as a fun diversion from a "serious" campaign. My "bridge-busting" army was a Kensei general and 15 BFN. In a heavy fog, there was no army the AI could amass that could withstand these guys. My "big red guy" could stand on the bridge by himself and smoke a cigar while the BFN chopped the opposition to shreds

Head Hurlers?? With a base missile attack of 17??? Okaaaaay Incendiary Pigs??? There were a few hilarious pics in the photo funnies topic that summed up their inclusion in the game.....Screeching women?? Now what's not to like about a kick-a$$ barbarian woman with an ax in her hand.....but unfortunately the AI spams this silly unit for Germania because they have an AP attack, but with a defense of 1, cavalry run them over without breaking a sweat.

And so on.......