Question regarding fun factor of factions

[Olaf The Great]

Luso is super fun woo! :P

Anyway..you get the BEST military in the whole game.
They have skirmisher,light, medium, heavy and CATAPHRACT calvary, Balearic's, Skirmishers, a solid spear, shield, and javelin army, "commando" flankers (Caetra), line swordsman(the loricata Scutari aka "Iberian legionaries", and the infamous... the terrifying...the awesome...the LOLPWN infantry...the Vasci Dosidataskeli...they have more stamina, ambushing tactics, armor, etc than their Silver counterparts :P.

Also, once they get Emporion and such they can get hoplite mercs, which can be a huge culture shock to Gauls.

Almost all of the Iberian infantry(especialy Scormataova and Gestikaipon) have about 20 javelins, a huge amount even compared to static skirmishers.

And even Iovamann look uber :P


On the building side they, like other barbie-dolls suffer...with their "minor" cities made out of pink plastic. However Iberia is a good mining center, and can bring in alot of money.


Dunno if they can build Roads however.



PS:Where can I recruit the Dosidataskeli

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well, IF you happen to know that V's; W's and B's enjoy to trade places in linguistics, I think you can guess it now?

If you wan't a fun game, and just don't want to see lot's of well-known Eastern/Greek crappy units on your road to conquest -> the Aedui or Arverni are all yours. Economy is decent, but you really shouldn't overextend yourself.

Another fun faction is the Casse, but you need to have a bit of patience to really enjoy them. As soon as you've managed to take all of Brittain you've got an economy unlike anything else in the North & West. You've got plenty of sea trade possibilities, you've got fellow Celtice allies (Aedui and Arverni), and your military is pretty unique. (With all those sweet Champion units.)

[Thaatu]

Aedui/Arvernii are great, but they may get a little tiresome by 200 BCE, depending on your expansion. My turn in 202 BCE takes about an hour, and that's roughly the same area as shown on the faction progress thread. The best thing about them are the generals. They gain awesome traits and can become real heroes. Plus, they have lots of province specific units.