casse

[tynnmahn]

Took a break from my Romani campaign and am playing Casse now.

It's kind of cool...

[Megas Methuselah]

Define "cool"...

[NightStar]

Yeah, what's cool about it?

I found Sweboz a lot of fun, gave me the proper "barbarian" feeling, marching a lot of barechested, ill-equipped troops around. Finally met my victory condition around 190 b.c after taking out Casse, Adui, Averni, Getai and of course the Romani.

After that I realized it would be bloody impossible to expand more because of lack of public order buildings for the Sweboz. I think the max they can squeese out of buildings is around 60% and 1/3rd of that is health which leads to larger populations in cities and therefore more squalor.

Now I am trying out the Romani, which is fun.

[Beefy187]

Blue=Casse= cool Red= Romani=hot=evil

[Bootsiuv]

Wow, that was a fantastic reason to start a new thread. That's what I created the EB TAVERN for...

Anyways, the Casse are fun, although I haven't played too much with the "barbarian" factions.

[micasa]

I have to say, since I downloaded EB I've only played with the Romani. What can I say, red is the best colour, ever! But last night I tried something very left field. I loaded a Sweboz campaign. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the music and interface are wonderful. They really do help to create the whole barbarian, bare knuckle, chest thumping experience of a bunch of filthy Sweboz (few anti-squalor buildings) trotting around northern European forests lopping heads off the whiny weaklings standing in their path. It's also a tad challenging getting anything resembling an economy off the ground.

This experience has inspired me to do two things: a) try out some of the other factions to enjoy what I've missed so far and b) to write an AAR. But these AARs do take a little time and effort, to be conservative.

I must still give the Casse a bash. Perhaps I'll use the Sweboz. ;-)