Orb's next AAR

[Orb]

Any suggestions?

After KBTLS died with my computer, I'm deciding on

Faction:
Probably Arverni or Hayasdan.

Style:
I'm deciding whether to try the play style again, or to go for a more conventional 1st/3rd person perspective. It will certainly involve heavy 'added' narrative not directly taken from the game.

[Warmaster Horus]

Here's a vote for Hayasdan. I'm thinking of playing them and would like to see how difficult they are.
As for the style, depends on how much "heavy added narrative" you put in.

[alatar]

Arveni, in 1st person.

[Ower]

A second vote for the hay, I plan to play them aftre i finish the pahlava

[Ower]

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[Orb]

I've played the Haik extensively in 0.74. They're tough, but not an impossible challenge. I tried a brief Arverni U6 (0.80), campaign. I did a 0.72 Aedui campaign, which was fantastically violent. In the end, I only really survived thanks to [unspeakable] RTW 1.2 diplomacy and the semi-abuse thereof.

[Boyar Son]

Go for Averni, though Aedui would be a better challange and a better cause.

[Tellos Athenaios]

If you feel like it, you could try to imagine being a historian from a different faction - not from to far away, but also not directly involved from the start...

[Orb]

I'd get frustrated more easily as the Aedui, though ;)
More immediate agonising battles against the [unspeakable] Sweboz/Romani...

Anyway

I've just updated my soundtrack.
It is now suitably weird.

Authentic Kithara and Aulos pieces together with soundtracks, Genesis and classical composers.

Edit: Equal votes at the moment.

The votes by the time I log on after supper will be decisive.

In the case of the tie, it'll probably go to the Gauls, as I still remember very well my Haikaikan campaign on 0.74.
So much glory and violence.

EDIT EDIT:

Just seen Zim's AAR. Arverni are replaced by Aedui or Lusotannan.

[Warmaster Horus]

If you remember your Hayasdan campaign so well, then chose the Arverni.
Just make sure to have a suitably "cruel" ruler, from time to time.

[Zim]

EDIT EDIT:

Just seen Zim's AAR. Arverni are replaced by Aedui or Lusotannan.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=81956

I'm beginning to think that I'm a member of some vast conspiracy to put out AARs for all of the factions you're considering before you start yours. It's a pirate led conspiracy, of course. Arrr, we be AAR pirates.

My vote goes to the Lusotannan. Their unit seems much more complete since this last patch, Their medium spear infantry is great(beats all of my Averni units, save the elite Arjos), and they're the only western faction with a unit resembling a Cataphract. Plus, after losing my own Lusotannan game, it'd be nice to see a more skillful player give them a try.

[Orb]

Well, in that case.

It is a toss-up between three barbarian factions:

Aedui (in deference to Zim), Lusotannan and Cassé, I think.

I'll be using the BI exe.

[Orb]

Aedui 1-3
Lusotannan 4-9
Cassé 10-12

8

It is the Lusotannan.

W00t!

Style - wait and see :P

[Sheep]

Now that was not exactly fair, was it?

[Orb]

It was slightly weighted :D

[Pelopidas]

Arverni, presented trough a bardic tail !

If you don't do it, I'll do it someday...with my bad English :D

[Fondor_Yards]

I say the Averni

[Orb]

On demand, I'm very tempted to go for the Aedui as a Gallic faction (since we already have an Arverni AAR), especially as the Lusotannan high morale, high casualty fighting scares me.

(yes, I feel like a battle's been lost because I suffered 10% casualties.)

However

It will be Lusotannan.

Name: Circle of The Barbarians

Opening quotation

Και τώρα τι θα γένουμε χωρίς βαρβάρους.
Οι άνθρωποι αυτοί ήσαν μια κάποια λύσις.

And now what shall become of us without any barbarians
These people were a kind of solution.

- Konstantine Kabaphes (1904)