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    Closet Celtophile Member Redmeth's Avatar
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    Default Re: Unit size question

    Huge unit settings are fun for custom battles, trying out factions in short campaigns etc but playing a campaign on huge and trying to achieve your VCs is not a good idea IMO, unit balancing issues aside the longer lasting battles though great will eat up a bit too much of your time and can produce "burnout" with a faction faster especially if the faction doesn't have a very diversified unit roster.

    If you have a new powerful computer that runs the game very smooth and loads battles very quickly even if there are ~10000 units involved then you may view things differently of course.
    Last edited by Redmeth; 07-18-2007 at 15:10.

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    Well this is my first post here, and before anything else, I would like to give congratulation to the eb team for this fantastic mod.

    I played with both large and huge setting, and got to agree with Tellos Athenaios, large seams to be the best.

    My first campaign with eb was with the roman and the huge setting, the battle where impressive, but quite too slow for my pc, also I noticed both the general's bodyguard power and the effect of the missiles on the huge setting.

    The campaigns that I played after where with the large setting (80 in triarii) and I find that to be good setting, I never had the problem of the exaustion of population while the game run well and keep the epic look.
    Last edited by Casaladow; 07-18-2007 at 18:48.

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    EB TRIBVNVS PLEBIS Member MarcusAureliusAntoninus's Avatar
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    Default Re: Unit size question

    I always play on Huge. The battles are more epic and closer to (though still far from) realistic numbers.

    Plus, I like depleting my cities. I have never had a problem with running out of people in my cities.

    Unit size can be the biggest drain on speed in a battle.


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    Βασιλευς και Αυτοκρατωρ Αρχης Member Centurio Nixalsverdrus's Avatar
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    Default AW: Re: Unit size question

    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus
    I always play on Huge. The battles are more epic and closer to (though still far from) realistic numbers.
    True. If your computer can handle it, play on huge.

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    Default Re: AW: Re: Unit size question

    Once you start playing huge you will find it impossible to go back to small because huge is addictive

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    Closet Celtophile Member Redmeth's Avatar
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    Default Re: Unit size question

    Around 20 battles on huge in roughly the same places (Romans vs Sweboz stretching to Gava-Alanna) will get you thinking about large.
    Not to mention bridge battles...

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    Also, on Huge the AI will completely drain its cities of population. Its very common to the Maks with cities under 400
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