EB news - Friday, March 11

**Hakonarson** · 03-14-2005, 01:49

Bactria is a faction?

How did you achieve this - have you extended the map? 'cos Bactria is several provinces off to the right of the current one - pretty much all the way to India!

Sarmatia was, of course, no more a single "faction" than Skythia - it never united, often served as mercenaries and allies of neighbours, and was mostly petty tribal based kingdoms - those in the Crimea & Black sea coast were mostly Roman clients.

**Byzantine Prince** · 03-14-2005, 01:52

Yes the map has been extended all the way back to Pakistan(the Indus River). The provnices there will be pretty big though.

**Hakonarson** · 03-14-2005, 01:57

Ah...now that IS good news!! :)

I look forward to this then!

wil the Bactrians be getting their pikemen? and will the Kushans make an appearance to replace them with "residual" "Greek" pikemen too??

Bactrians shoudl be fun - their army was apparently based upon remnant Seleucid pike, and local cavalry - which was mostly skythian - so lots of horse archers, but also quite a lot of heavy cavalry, up to and including cataphracts. Plus elephants :)

Their neighbours, the Indo-Greek cities further towards India combined pieks with Indian infantry - mainly archers, less cavalry but more elephants.

**Steppe Merc** · 03-14-2005, 02:33

Angadil pretty much covered the aspects of the Horse Archers. But there will indeed be horse archers that reflect the Parthian lesser nobles that led the horse archers who were often reinforced with nomadic forces, which is what you see here. All of these could be considered mercanaries, or axuiallary as they were nomads who hired themselves off to their neighbors.
As for the Scythians, they were indeed around at this time, but not that powerful. All units with the names of Scythian are recruitable by all that control their steppe lands, as was in real life.

Sarmatia was, of course, no more a single "faction" than Skythia - it never united, often served as mercenaries and allies of neighbours, and was mostly petty tribal based kingdoms - those in the Crimea & Black sea coast were mostly Roman clients.

Well neither were the Gauls, the Britons, the Germans. But they were indeed a group of numerous tribes, the main ones who are representated in our game. As for the Roman clients, not at the beggining of the game, certaintly. And Sarmatians did have a very important role in history.

**jerby** · 03-14-2005, 17:05

ok, so thrace will be a faction. but Macedon can recruit something like 'thracian-auxillia'. will that be done when macedon conquered their territory, or how else?

**The Stranger** · 03-14-2005, 17:11

i hope you call them Sarmatian tribes rather then Sarmatia just like Scythian Tribes

**Steppe Merc** · 03-14-2005, 21:25

Emporer, as a group of people they are all Sarmatians. Of course their tribes, but as are the Gauls, Germans, Britons, Iberians, etc.
Besides, their are many tribes in and out of history. That said, they were all Sarmatians. They should be called the Roxaloni, the Aorsi, and seperated into each tribe. But the game doesn't allow that. We work with what we have.