Best faction for a new player?

**New** · 05-12-2006, 05:07

I was wondering what would be the best faction to play my first EB game with.

**Volume II** · 05-12-2006, 05:29

Wild guess, but I would probably say either Karthadastim or the Ptolemies, because they both have strong beginning economies, I think, and their armies are quite good, compared to many other nations.

**Avicenna** · 05-12-2006, 07:16

You should familiarise yourself with the vanilla RTW first. EB might be a bit too complex to take on all at once first try.

**orwell** · 05-12-2006, 07:57

I'd say charge in as the Romani. What you don't know you'll pick up eventually. Or that's what I did.

**Equilibrium** · 05-12-2006, 08:30

Yup, rome is a good choice for a beginning eb player, but a good knowledge of vanilla rome doesn't hurt. The romans have a good economy and good beginning troops, not too many strong enemys around them, so yes a good starter's faction.

**Dayve** · 05-12-2006, 08:34

Rome, Ptolemaics or Carthage are good ones for any EB begginner.. You don't have to play vanilla before you jump into a mod really... Anything you don't get, just make a thread here and ask all your questions... We'll help you with them.

**Trithemius** · 05-19-2006, 11:25

I've only really played the Romani, so I am not sure how useful my opinions on this are, but I think they are fairly easy to use as a "first faction". They retain the "solidness" they possessed in RTW and have a pretty good economy and a reasonably defensible position.

The big downside, really, is their slightly odd recruitment (pre-Marian Reforms) which can play havoc with people who are used to being able to rebuild their field armies after taking an enemy production centre. If this is kept in mind though, the Romani are a lot of fun (so much fun I have yet to play anyone else!).

**Avicenna** · 05-19-2006, 14:24

The Ptolemies and Makedonian phalanxes might be a bit tough to learn how to use as a beginner.

It's not odd, all factions are only allowed to recruit from their homelands. Rome is already much easier, being allowed to recruit and retrain in type II governments after the Marian reforms.