Seleucids got it all

[USMCNJ]

i think he is talking about the tutorial. the one that takes you through unification/conquest of italy

[Kagetora]

CONQUEST OF ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOHH, that sounds like alot of fun.

[Lucius Lucullus]

What I want to know is if one can retrain the Hastati/Principes/Triarii legionaires into post-marian legionaires or if one is stuck with the old Legions once the Marian reform takes place.

[Kagetora]

It will probably be like what you did with royal knights in MTW when there was a period change,

e.x. with VI, by the year 1206, all the royal knight units were upgraded in the training parchment to their haevier while on the Camp map, I still had a bunch of the old ones, so all I did was retrain these units of Royal knights from the old Early Period, and they came out as royal knights of the High Period.

[Silver Rusher]

Now wait a minute.

In MTW, the Egyptians and Turks had so many more units between them, but this did not make them unstoppable. They were in fairly weak positions (maybe not the Turks, but the Egyptians definately were in no position for expansion) and since most of the Egyptian and Turkish provinces were in the desert, they were weak in terms of development.

In MTW, I particularly liked the thing that you have to work very hard to get a certain type of unit (i.e. I spent ages on Italians not for the conquest, but simply for Gothic Knights). I'm sure that CA haven't forgotten to do this in RTW. (this isn't the case in many mods either, so I don't like playing them much either) The Seleucids will have loads of cool stuff they have to work hard for, but they don't have any of the stuff the Parthians have (cataphract camels, horse archers with Parthian Shot). Don't judge how good the factions are just from unit profiles.

[Basileus]

The faction with the best economy is always the one that is dangerous not the one that can build most diverse units, anyways thats how i see it

[Odysseus]

The Selucids just were smart. They copied the best military units and tactics, which obviously gave them a advantage. They're probably going to be like HRE. The HRE had access to the a lot of good units which others couldn't build and had rich provinces. But they had a lot of internal problems. It's probably going to be the same.

[Red Harvest]

The Egyptians in MTW were easy to win with. They had superb provinces. Egypt/Flanders/Constantinople are the best individual provinces I can think of at the moment. The provinces along the mid-east coast were excellent, and Syria could bring in a very good income as well and Edessa was no slouch. All you really had to do was prevent early simultaneous war with BOTH Turks and Almohads, then crush one of the two. I always chose to crush the Turks first so that I could bet rid of the problem of Syria. I usually left the Almohads to fight the Spanish and suffer the pope's wrath. Once the Turks were gone, it was time for the Byz. With both Egypt and Constantinople, and being in the corner of the map, the Egyption faction was ready to roll. There were usually some set backs, but little real threat of losing.

[Jeanne d'arc]

Not all factions should be balanced equally, theres supposed to be stronger factions then others just like in MTW, its always a challenge to play with the weaker factions and its just as fun to play with a strong faction aswell.
I hope they didend make the seleucid units weaker then other just to balance the factions out, thats just lame.