What faction to play as?

[Intranetusa]

Try Greeks, Epieros, or Macedonians :)

[Hooahguy]

or the getai........
EDIT: to add, the getai have the best infantry in the game......

[Mediolanicus]

I'd go along with Sab'yn!

Good position to start in, but it get's harder once you're around 250 B.C.

[Uncle Odin]

Saba is very interesting, as you have quiet an isolated starting Position to build up your economy, but sooner or later you end up in a war against AS and the Ptolies, which is quiet hard...

The Sweboz really rock

About Epeiros I can only say, that they are quiet easy, if you can blitz the Maks in the first few turns with your starting army and keep the Romans away fram Taras.

I hope this helps you a little bit.

Did I mention the Swebos really rock the game. Right now I´m rolling over the romans...

[antisocialmunky]

The Iberian Faction.

[Markus_Aurelius]

hmm, your sweboz comments really tempt me....

but the saba seem pretty nice...

[Uncle Odin]

With the Sewboz you have the great advantage, that your generals get the forager trait, which gives them the ability to roam in foreign territory as long as they want and it saves some money. This is really cool ans afaik the sweboz are the only faction to have this ability...

Try to combine Germanic Naked Spearman and Chatti Clubinfantry, you´ll really gone like it.

BTW Saba is fine to, only way more difficult, as I can recall.

[Markus_Aurelius]

After reading that aar, the spear and shield, im thinking the sab'yn are a good choice, he actually was beaten by the computer!

[Markus_Aurelius]

so i think im going saba, but definatly will check out the sweboz when im done

[Uncle Odin]

Yeah, I really liked his AAR and played Saba afterwards. It´s great fun and they have some really good units. But nothing that can stand against a phalanx iirc. Have a lot of fun and report how it´s going on, if you like. I would be very pleased to read an other Saba AAr...

So good luck in the damm´n desert.