best barbarian faction?

**Lord_Winter** · 10-13-2004, 12:36

Must say that none of the others had a chance when I played the Scythians...

However amongst the western barbarians the germans seem the most powerful...however the gauls has vastly better starting territory and the brittons one of the best starting positions in the game...

They all have cons and pros...

**Magraev** · 10-13-2004, 12:41

If the gauls survive long enough to get forester warbands they seem to have an edge. Those dudes have awesome stats.

**Jeanne d'arc** · 10-13-2004, 15:19

The Gauls and Britons have chosen swordsmen, these are much better then chosen axemen for instance.These units are not available in the early stages and thats why its very hard in the beginning for the Gauls especially.
The Germanic provinces slowly populate to higher levels wich is there major disadvantage, at least thats what i am experiencing.U also need to build everything up from scratch but u have the advantage to be the only barbarian faction that fields phalanx spearmen and various other unique troop types.

**ThijsP** · 10-13-2004, 15:35

I tried the Thracians(a bit a barbarian faction), they have some good units: pikemen, falxmen. But its really difficult to defend agains macadonian invasions, well nearly imposible as I am experiencing right now. And its even on medium/medium

**Dorkus** · 10-13-2004, 15:51

CS are not "much better" than CA. Head to head CA win handily.

Even after taking a pilum volley, CA rip through praetorian cohort and can beat urban cohort. CS will lose to praetorain badly and are even with vanilla legionary (which are no match for CA).

CA are vulnerable to missile fire. But given that Germans have a 170 range archer with good atk/def that requires 1 turn of production, CA should not be shot at too often.

Germans are definitely stronger than Gauls. Throw in all their -morale units, and they might have the strongest unit mix in the game. (does anyone know if all the -morale frighten effects stack?)

Originally Posted by Jeanne d'arc

The Gauls and Britons have chosen swordsmen, these are much better then chosen axemen for instance.These units are not available in the early stages and thats why its very hard in the beginning for the Gauls especially.
The Germanic provinces slowly populate to higher levels wich is there major disadvantage, at least thats what i am experiencing.U also need to build everything up from scratch but u have the advantage to be the only barbarian faction that fields phalanx spearmen and various other unique troop types.

**troymclure** · 10-13-2004, 16:33

i like the dacians, they always seem to do ok when i'm playing in that region so i thought i'd chek them out.
They've got the usual barbarian troops warband, archer warband, chosen archers chosen swordsmen etc. which is all good. They also get falxmen, barbarian noble cav and seige engines. Pretty good mix and not the worst starting position (ok it probably is one of the worst but at least it's a challenge).