What will be the faction of your first 0.8 campaign?

[Wardo]

After my long campaign with Epeiros, all the way to 130-something BC, I'm currently playing a game with Ptolemaioi and I plan to stick with it untill v0.8 comes out, then I'll start a Romani campaign.

What about you? Since you'll have to re-start your campaigns, which faction will you pick first? I've been trying some quick short games with plenty of different factions and I must say it was a tough choice. So much gameplay, so much content, so many units! Ptolemaioi is great, by the way.

EDIT: Here's the score I figured out by reading your posts, feel free to recount it. I forgot to add a poll to this thread so let's just pretend this is a really primitive forum without a poll option and we have to do things this way :

Saka-Rauka - 21
Romani - 16
Sauromatae - 12
Pahlava - 12
Koinon-Hellenon - 11
Sweboz - 10
Hayasdan - 10
Iberians - 10
Baktria - 9
Casse - 9
Seleucids - 8
Carthage - 6
Makedonia - 4
Getai - 4
Aedui - 4
Faction X - 4
Pontos - 3
Arverni - 3
Epeiros - 3
Ptolemaioi - 2
Eleutheroi - 0

[paullus]

i'm interested in a sweboz campaign at some point, but i want to make sure they're in good shape first. the sakarauka look like fun, or i may run it back with the baktrians or kh.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

cough Romans.

[Cozur]

romans

[Teleklos Archelaou]

The nomads will be so revamped that we hope folks give them a try. They were boring in all other versions of RTW and in our previous builds because while the game represented moderately well hellenic and roman towns/ways of life, it stank when it came to nomads. We have greatly changed things up.

Granted, when you see the new unit rosters, you might be swayed by who has the most new units too of course. The Romans will have some new auxilia, but overall the experience with them won't be remarkably different I think. Other than fighting a bunch of different new units too.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Greek cultures,Carthage,Barb Factions, Nomads are interesting. but im more of an inf. guy in RTW. (and EB)

[Foot]

You know you will all want it to be Hayasdan, you're just saying all those other factions just to hide your affection for them. They are going to kick-arse in 0.8, I can assure you.

Oh, and Hayasdan is my answer also. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Foot

[Clovis]

pontus, so I can beat Haysdan like it stole something

Seriously, pontus, or maybe sarmatia

[soibean]

Macedonia, without the CTD from reinforcement bug
Epeiros
Sweboz
either Hayasdan or Sakarauka

[Radier]

Casse or Hayasdan.

[cunctator]

Romani, with the all the new units and 3 dynamic reforms they will be playable as intended for the first time.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

3 dynamic reforms they will be playable as intended for the first time.

gasps i dare say? Augustan Reforms?

[Masy]

Saka-Rauka, 'cos of the novelty factor (and yurts... Yurts Damnitt!) . And then carthage, even though i heard not much has been added to them. Looking forward to the completed unit cards though, elephants especially.

[Tyfus]

I have only ever started 2 campaigns in.74 and I'm keeping it that way until .8 is out. I'm currently Casse and KH.

My first pick for .8 will probably be Baktria, carthage or a nomad faction. I really like the western european factions though, Even though I know they were given less attention then some other factions I really hope we see some good changes for Casse, iberia and Sweboz.

[cunctator]

gasps i dare say? Augustan Reforms?

Exactly. Polybian, Marian and Augustan reforms.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Seriously, foot is right guys. Hayasdan will be a whole lot cooler in this one. The eastern music, eastern GUI, new better infantry (though not all of them), new light troops, I think some new cav too, building names corrected (with english translations beneath them), new huge building descriptions, Hai ethnicities, maybe some other tweaks if he can get time. They will be a lot more interesting and I while I understand people might not have been so interested before, they will really need to give them a try in 0.8.

Love that line Clovis!

[econ21]

Definitely Romans, then. I still remember the Roman preview and those amazing Imperial units. Drool.

Has it been decided what the trigger will be for the Augustan reforms? Is it just time? That would be a long wait. Someone mentioned getting them when Rome reaches a certain size or something - I'd prefer something like that from a gameplay point of view. Even if I am patient enough to wait to 1 AD or something, it would be a waste to get the reforms and only have rebels to fight.

[Clovis]

TA - thanks, I try

And a question - is Pontus improved like Hasydan, or will I have to suffer more?

[Fondor_Yards]

The Saka, Getai *now with more inf and heavy cav!*, the new faction, Carthage, Bactria, KH, AS, Pontus, Armenia, Sarmatians, Iberians

[Discoskull]

Casse. Again. Because, even though my current campaign is extremely entertaining, chariots that don't blow goat balls will make it even better.

[cunctator]

Has it been decied what the trigger will be for the Augustan reforms? Is it just time? That would be a long wait. Someone mentioned getting them when Rome reaches a certain size or something - I'd prefer something like that from a gameplay point of view. Even if I am patient enough to wait to 1 AD or something, it would be a waste to get the reforms and only have rebels to fight.

A combination of time, empire size and several minor things. Reform can approximatly happen as soon as the roman state in game is in a similar condition as the historic roman empire when their army changed. We still have a minimum year as requirement since the new units also represent some technical progress and social changes that can't happen overnight but the player can still vastly accelerate things. Currently the minimum year for augustan reforms is around 147 BC, after 540 turns.

[Rilder]

I'm gonna put all the most done factions in .8 into a hat shake it then pull one out then play that faction, I pray to Zues that I dont get a faction with blasted horse archers

[GiantMonkeyMan]

probably macedon and conquer everywhere this time (got bored last time, *runs away before TA smites me* )

then probably a steppe faction just to check them out

[The Celtic Viking]

Sweboz of course. Is there a faction more fun to play? Okay, I've only played as them, but damn... they are fun, and I long to play them in a (more) completed version. Then I'll try the Nomads just because TA urges me to do so, but I really do prefer to play as a "barbarian". Perhaps that will change.

[-Praetor-]

I`ve never palyed as romani on EB, mainly because of the switched culture groups, portraits, greek commands, etc.

Romans never have been my favorite (those would be the Koinon Hellenon, just love their skins and their mysticism), but I`ve been waiting far too long to play a accurate roman campaign.

I love their skins and all their history too, but having played with them before, with all the missing banners and stuff, would just have spoiled that campaign.

Cheers.

[Kääpäkorven Konsuli]

None of them. Loading times between turns are way too long, over 2 minutes whit my AMD 3000+.

[vizigothe]

A nomad faction.

[Kralizec]

I already played Epeiros to death in previous builds, so now I'm going to try something different. Probably Karthadast or Pontus, possibly Hayasdan. Gotta give the Romans a try to- I've never played them before in any EB build

[Avicenna]

Sweboz. Gonna be my first ever barbarian experience, taking Germania without having to bother with the annoying navy like the Casse.

[Sarkiss]

You know you will all want it to be Hayasdan, you're just saying all those other factions just to hide your affection for them. They are going to kick-arse in 0.8, I can assure you.

Oh, and Hayasdan is my answer also. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Foot

you are soooo damn right!!!
HAYASDAN all the way!!!