Army Lists

[AquaLurker]

The lists look bad I would not be interested in this it ruins concept of faction uniqueness

I am not so sure about the faction uniqness your are talikng about. Unless you are saying that having an army cosist of all preatorian as cav, all urbans as inf or all spartan, all desert horseman or all cataphracts etc, is the kind of faction uniquness you want to retain, then sorry I can't agree with you.

These limitation and rules actually bring out the uniqness the factions.
I have not seen many players play arab horseman using armenia or un armoured camels? Hills man, desert inf, milita horseman anyone? Where have all the thracian players gone to??? Nubian cav and spears?

We keep on seeing "balance armies" with mostly/all spartans, as their core inf, all preatorian as core cav, all pharoh guards and pharoh archers as the main stay of a balance egyptian army? What about every pikeman from Macedonian is a duh! Royal Pike man??? Best part is that because of these trend, you will also see all chosen swordsmen for the barbs lol. Dosen't bring out much uniqness it is a Dacian or Gaul army. Amernian and pathia looks almost like twins. Pontus and Selecids?

Like RabidGiddon says we do not dictate people to play this way, for me I just hope that people who share similiar views with us would join us in trying out the format, it definately needs testing for us to get it right.

I agree, this is definately the most boring thread in the entire forum where people would just say "to heck with it I am going back for the more popular choices."