Are the Romans too Powerful?

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Is Egypt overpowered?

I'm too historically minded when it comes to TW to think about "overpowered" except in terms of "unrealistically powerful". As the RTW Egyptian army is almost entirely ahistorical, to me asking if they are overpowered is a non-question. It's like asking if a Space Marine with a dual hyperblaster from planet Zargon is overpowered...

But yes, you are right: Egypt has always struck me as the number 2 faction after the Romans (at least until you get to a late game Seleucia - by which time the game is almost over). Egyptian chariots seem to combine the annoyance factor of horse archers with a pretty devastating shock capability. And their large archer units, nasty axe infantry etc are not too shabby either.

Although I don't know how they would fare against Parthia, as I can't bear to look at RTWs Egyptians and I don't have the patience to play horse archers. The match up almost sounds like how foxhunters in the UK were described - the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.