Army Lists

[The Hun]

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

[Wishazu]

i think we should put this on hold untill the code is sorted, then maybe we could petition the org to set up a proper ladder, with a couple of the code signee`s as admins. go for a system for ladders like they have at clanbase.com however i dont know how to set this up.

[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."

[RabidGibbon]

Thanks for the troop type cap input Aqualurker,

What we should be thinking about now is merging the two lists above (750 Denarii troops and the troop types cap) and maybe playtesting them sometime, deliberatley trying to exploit the lists to create the daftest/most unbalanced armies possible so as to find flaws in the lists as they stand.

Would anyone be interested in this kind of project? I can generally be found online around 20:00 GMT (under this username), so if your interested anyone just say hi online, or tell me when and where you can be found through these forums and we'll see what can be done.

PS: I was refering to my hideously dull list of troop types over 750 Denarii when i said this is a boring post, I think the thread itself is quite interesting.

[AquaLurker]

Thanks for the troop type cap input Aqualurker,

What we should be thinking about now is merging the two lists above (750 Denarii troops and the troop types cap) and maybe playtesting them sometime, deliberatley trying to exploit the lists to create the daftest/most unbalanced armies possible so as to find flaws in the lists as they stand.

Would anyone be interested in this kind of project? I can generally be found online around 20:00 GMT (under this username), so if your interested anyone just say hi online, or tell me when and where you can be found through these forums and we'll see what can be done.

PS: I was refering to my hideously dull list of troop types over 750 Denarii when i said this is a boring post, I think the thread itself is quite interesting.

Hey Rabid,

My online nick is WinkyWars, we have met last night (or at least to me it was a night time). I am keen in testing it out, tonight I will be online again as in any other nights. I sincerely hope that those who are interested would join us in this project. Maybe we could feed back our test to others here.

Players who wish to play "historical accurate" online battles with the vanilla version of RTW might just join us.(pray hard)