Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

**spong** · 10-02-2006, 11:48

Hi everyone.

I just recently installed EB having only played vanilla, BI and Napoleonic 2 before.

I had decided that I prefer the factions in vanilla despite some of the cool features in BI ('zerkers) and had been playing Thrace because I like the combination of fairly cheap phalanx units and barbarian heavy infantry. I'm not too confident with cavalry but when I need it heavier I recruit mercenaries. I liked how Thrace was part Barbarian and part Greek so I had solid infantry and stone walls for my cities.
I'm having trouble finding a similar faction in EB, the nearest thing I can find is Ptolemaioi but they have alot of different and expensive phalanx units which complicates things somewhat and they seem to get their heavy infantry (axemen) quite late, also they start off with quite a large empire but I prefer to start off small.

So can anyone suggest a faction which has stone walls, phalanxes and good heavy infantry (preferably the less organised (cheaper) barbarian types using 2 handed weapons)?

normally I would go into custom battle and look at the unit lineup of the various factions but in EB because all the mercenary units are also included I can't tell what is the faction units and what is mercs.

**Foot** · 10-02-2006, 11:59

The Getai are the ones for you. Falxs and phalanx though at the moment I believe they are restricted to level 3 buildings (but that will change in 0.8)

Foot

**spong** · 10-02-2006, 12:16

so they only get wooden walls?

when's 0.8 due out? :D

**Foot** · 10-02-2006, 12:22

I have no idea if they get stone walls or not. 0.8.0 is closer than it was two weeks ago, but it shall be finished when it is finished.

Foot

**Discoskull** · 10-02-2006, 17:59

Just steal somebody else's stone walls! The Greeks are right next door...

**spong** · 10-02-2006, 19:18

quick question - will 0.8 be compatible with the latest Rome patches? there's some bugs which have been ironed out that are still present when running 1.2

**Discoskull** · 10-02-2006, 19:22

0.8 will be for RTW version 1.5. It's exciting.

**QwertyMIDX** · 10-02-2006, 19:23

0.8 works on RTW 1.5.

**vizigothe** · 10-03-2006, 00:49

Originally Posted by Discoskull

Just steal somebody else's stone walls! The Greeks are right next door...

A true barbarian thought! Follow this mans advice!

**Trithemius** · 10-03-2006, 03:23

Originally Posted by vizigothe

A true barbarian thought! Follow this mans advice!

Indeed! And if you cannot build your own roads, wait for someone else to do it for you and then take them; those non-player factions seem to have money coming out of their Artifically Intelligent ears!

(I did this a lot as the Parthians in RTW vanilla since the Seleucids could build nice roads and I could only build dirty tracks.)