The Infamous Cav Spam"

**Dutch_guy** · 03-23-2006, 18:17

I remember one battle against a spammer ...

I played the Julii - this was pre BI - and was facing a Carthage Elephant spammer, every unit - including his general - was an elephant unit, war elephant mind you.

As I like balanced armies, I thought I had absolutely no chance of winning, however I did win...

I had brought 1 unit of flaming pigs to the battle, knowing that a carthage player might deploy 1 maybe 2 elephant units.

I sent my pig unit towards the lead elephant and set the pigs alight - every single elephant unit routed and died.

What did I learn ? Never play games which give players more than 12 K denarii...

**Monarch** · 03-23-2006, 21:29

Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

What did I learn ? Never play games which give players more than 12 K denarii...

Yay for lower money battles!

BHCWarman88 · 03-24-2006, 00:46

12.5K is nothing

what units can you get?? good units?? not Much,on RTW,a few urbans,but you have to settle for Weaker Armies,and/Or 18 unit Armies cuz you can't get full 20 unit cuz of 12.5K

I play 25K+ and they Much Better, you Put the Money where you Need in

I played a FFA with my clan Mates, and one of them did Farily Well as Chargte, Deafeting my Clan mate who was Egypt, and Almost beating me, I was Seleciud, on a Really hilly BI Map called
Warman Death Field

**x-dANGEr** · 03-24-2006, 14:56

Ehmm.. You surely don't need to get the elite of everything..I'm acutally thinking of a new rule saying no units that cost more than 600 (Just to see some use of Hesitati) with 7.5k..

P.S. Dutch Guy: Are you the same as Dutch_Maniak or you are someone else ?

BHCWarman88 · 03-24-2006, 17:56

7.5K is really Crap, I rather play 15K then that..

I am starting to find some Fun in 15K, 15K is good, you get a few upgrades,can't get much eles or so, but you could get a good army Without spamming and without me B.S.ing about 12.5K and without you guys B.S.ing about 88K (which is still better)

now,lets talk about maps....

lol

**Monarch** · 03-24-2006, 18:21

Originally Posted by BHCWarman88

7.5K is really Crap, I rather play 15K then that..

I am starting to find some Fun in 15K, 15K is good, you get a few upgrades,can't get much eles or so, but you could get a good army Without spamming and without me B.S.ing about 12.5K and without you guys B.S.ing about 88K (which is still better)

now,lets talk about maps....

lol

Ok I've already put forward my arguments on this in the other thread. Which to be honest is wherewe should be limiting the money debate to.

x-Danger your idea actually seems really interesting and fun to play, but more for 'novelty' value sorta thing, where you could play between clan mates and stuff but for 'competitive' games like in a tournament for instance I still prefer 12.5k where you still can't spam, and you get a few upgrades in but the fun in 'what to choose' is still there.

Oh and also Roman units are very expensive, for good reason as they are top quality. Which means you get next to no upgrades installing balance into the game. Barb factions still have ok units, and axemen to kill romans as they are good vs armour but with the rule set I play I can't have all my inf as axemen as it would break rules, but you can upgrade them much more than roman factions, especially the ERE.

**Dutch_guy** · 03-24-2006, 19:40

Originally Posted by x-dANGEr

Ehmm.. You surely don't need to get the elite of everything..I'm acutally thinking of a new rule saying no units that cost more than 600 (Just to see some use of Hesitati) with 7.5k..

P.S. Dutch Guy: Are you the same as Dutch_Maniak or you are someone else ?

No my on line name I used is very different from my name here, that said I haven't played online for about a half year !

Your rule sounds interesting though, would also like to see some more variation / low tier units in MP.

Would make for osme interesting tactics with your not to hard to rout units !

**x-dANGEr** · 03-24-2006, 20:36

The rule is surely for fun.. We play the game for fun anuway. Just like games with max 2.. (Acutally, I remember playing a game for the 1st GS spot 1 year ago vs a Wolf.. One of the rules was max 3) (So they can still be serious sometimes)

BHCWarman88 · 03-25-2006, 17:00

7.5K and 12.5K aren't really good

I remember this well

Last December of 04/January of 05, I started RTW online, so 15K flatland,No Ele,No Art, and sometimes No Fire, was the Rules at that time..

I gladly use those rules, belvie it or not,since now I am against them
so, then,1 or 2 months later, in Ferbrauy/March sometime, Some of the Eitle Players from Hell and Wolf etc.... Refuse to play me cuz 12.5K was the "new" money. of course, it was like, 200 RTW players .vs. the Few ppl who was still with 15K, so I ended up starting to play 88K and never play it again unless I Had to, untill now..