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    Default Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    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.

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    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)

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    so they only get wooden walls?

    when's 0.8 due out? :D

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    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.

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    Just steal somebody else's stone walls! The Greeks are right next door...
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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    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

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    0.8 will be for RTW version 1.5. It's exciting.
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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    0.8 works on RTW 1.5.
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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    Quote 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!
    In Pace Requiescat.

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    Default Re: Difficulty deciding on which faction to play

    Quote 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.)
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