Hi all,
with what AI-factions are you more or less content regarding how historically "plausible", or generally credible, the armies that they field are? I made the following experiences:
Arche Seleukeia / Ptolemaioi: Generally good. Mostly consist of 5 to 10 units of phalangites, some Psiloi, some Thorakitai / Thureophoroi. Their armies are generally balanced without spamming of Sphendonetai or else.
Western hellenic factions: OK, but suffer from Psiloi spamming, due to the fact that they are seemingly much poorer and have less developed MICs than their eastern colleagues.
Celts: OK, but they suffer from the problem of either making all Gairoas / Lugoae armies or All-Gaesatae armies, no cavalry.
Lusotannan: OK, their armies are of a reasonable mixture of lighter and medium / heavy typical iberian troops.
Sweboz: Generally good, a balanced and reasonable mix of their unit roaster, fielding much from their tribal allies like Cheruskii-warbands; armies raised in the east of their presumable empire consist mostly of baltic Kirslininkas / Lankininkas, what I find to be quite reasonable.
Getai: OK, but field mostly celtic levies and Komatai-only-hordes, at least in my campaigns.
Hayasdan: OK, but a bit too strong emphasis on foot archers in my opinion, melee infantry OK with one or two Soosemarartig (sp?) in their armies.
Pontos: They field lots of missile units and celtic levies due to their access to Galatia.
Nomads: Field very much foot archers in my campaign instead of mounted ones.
Carthago: As to what I know, they do quite good, although I'm no expert on the Carthies and have to admit that I can't really tell them apart. They seem to use a diverse and reasonable mix though.
SPQR: Now that's a real desaster. They never field legions. They field armies consisting of 12 units Rorarii and a few italian allies, or they field an army of Gairoas or Lugoae spiced up with a few italian allies, or they field armies with about 6 Camillian Triarii plus a few italian allies / Gairoas / Lugoae. They are army-wise really the worst AI-faction.
Saba / Baktria: Their seem OK, but I didn't faced them really yet and do not have any idea what they should look like.
Please feel free to agree or disagree and post your experiences. I'm really interested if it's basically the same on your screen. Note that I'm aware of the EB-team's efforts to make the AI-armies as accurate as possible, and appreciate their work very much, although I make a little criticism here.
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