Faction with best Army

[Lord Winter]

Imo SE have the best army , allong with the Romans.

The SE has the best units all round, maybe not the best archer units, but infantry and cav. is on par with the Romans.

And better than other factions.

Imo SE have the best army , allong with the Romans.

The SE has the best units all round, maybe not the best archer units, but infantry and cav. is on par with the Romans.

And better than other factions.

Cathrage has infentry equal to roman and numidan calvery which is a must better counter to elephents then mitila calvery.

but the sucluded empire has silver shilde legionarys which are as good as legoinary coharts. It's a mater of prefrance presonly i prefer missle calvery and javilins beter then capheracts which are a slower then both scared baned calvery and numidan calvery.

[Conqueror]

scared baned calvery

I know that pointing out typos isn't very nice, but this one's just way too funny

And I'd say that in RTW 1.2, the best army is from Armenia. That faction has normal horse archer, cataphract archers (the best HA unit in the game), cataphracts, and phalanx units and the armenian legionaries. Which is strong enough infantry that they won't suck in siege battles like the other HA factions. It's a combination that is both versatile and immensely powerful.

In 1.3 I don't know, since I haven't got BI yet. But I suspect that the balance of factions may be significantly changed from 1.2, what with the reduced efficiency of missile units.

[Taurus]

Carthage imo because they have everything you need (except archers) but they're slingers do the job.

*runs off to play BI*

[Rodion Romanovich]

I'm not sure slingers can make up for archers. They don't have flaming ammo and thus can't scare of elephants as effectively. They also have a very short range in vanilla R:TW. I'd personally, if faced with an enemy with slingers only, quickly destroy their missile troops and start raining death on their remaining troops, forcing them to attack or stand still and take plenty of casualties before I move in - or even worse - before THEY move in. In many 2vs2 battles in mp I've also been able to destroy an enemy, and be destroyed by an enemy, thanks to surviving archers when the rest of the army was destroyed. In mp, battles usually take much longer than in sp, so you often get to use up all the archer ammo.

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

In mp, battles usually take much longer than in sp, so you often get to use up all the archer ammo.

Here's to the AI in RTW v1.2

Have you tried BI yet? I've had some interesting (and...surprisingly....lengthy...) battles against the Western Roman Empire. In the first campaign, played as the Berbers and managed to grab Carthage. However, the Western Romans just didn't want to give it up without a fight, and landed army after army there until I was forced to pull back. They then sacked my two (and only) starting provinces, and that was that.

The Bebers really need more starting provinces tbh, as income and growth rates are poor - the whole of North Africa has something like 5/6 provinces in BI compared to the 9 or so in RTW.