Numidians !!!

[LusitanianWolf]

I have an suggestion to you while do you wait for the EB2.

Check Saba's roster and vannilla's numidian one. You'll see that their fighting style is almost the same: basic infantry units are skirmishers, basic cavalry is skirmisher too, the line infantry are levy spearmans, and have african elephants.
Numidians had imitation legionairs, but as I saw in some other topic that any roman historician would call Saba's nobles and bodyguards legionair imitations...
So why dont you RP an little?
Ask someone of the team to tell you how to make Saba's Government lv 1 to be able to build in Numidia to make numidians and all Saba's troops to be able to build in Saba's factional MICs in that places.

Start an campain with Saba like this:
Your faction leader (I dont remember the name) is the son of the true numidian king that was exilated by traitors in an civil war that fragmentated the country into small states... The exilated king headed east with his family, friends and some loyal warriors. After years of walking without home he settled in the first place he could find peace: In he Arab peninsula where he joined an little tribe called Saba...
After some years, due to Saba's king death and to his own bravery, his son (your faction heir) was elected king of Saba. But he wasnt happy with it. He was ambicious and he wanted revenge. He wanted the throne of... NUMIDIA!!!


Start with Saba but make your own goals, the unification of Numidia. That should be an hard campain (I suggest you to play in lower difficult unless you're an very experienced player, and will not be the same thing as have one faction called Numidia, but should be an cool and funny campain, at least I think...

And if you are an good writer you could do an AAR of it!!!

[Tanit]

To clarify:
Numidia 272 BC - The Massylian Numidians, later the most dominant Numidian group and the tribe of Massinissa, are ruled by either Zelalsen or a possible father of his named Niptasan. Zelalsen has one son that history notes named Gaia or Gala. Zelalsen also had royal relatives, namely Naravas, said to be of the royal family, and Meztule, a distant cousin. How much of the traditional Numidian territory the Massylians controlled exactly at this point is unclear though some scholars have suggested they were based out of Thugga, modern Dougga, and only conquered Cirta under Gala. Gala was instrumental to the rise of the Massylain Numidians conquering large amounts of territory. Wherever the Massylians began they were in firm control of Cirta and more than the province space on the EB map by the time of Gala's death.

The Massylians' main rivals were the Massaesylians most notable for their king Syphax who fought in the second Punic war. Who Syphax's father was is unknown at present. By the time of Jugurtha the Massylians were now only called Numidians as they had defeated the Massaesylians and controlled territory strecthing west to the river Molucca (Spl?) mentioned in Sallust's 'The Jugurthine War'. Though the medracen was not constructed until much later North Africa had several indigenous monuments at this time. The first was Jugurtha's table, located near the border between modern Tunisia and Algeria on the Tunisia side. The second were prehistorical burial mounds that foreshadowed the Medracen in Numidia, and the third were some Pyramid like structures in ancient Mauretania though their exact date of construction I have not found, they could be later.


Welcome aboard Juba2! ( My absolute favourite Numidian)


The Puno-Numidian, Tanit
North West African Historian for Carthage/Eleutheroi, EB