Favorite Faction To Play And Why?

[Emperor Mithdrates]

Tollheit, have you actually voted on the poll yet. If you did greece would be joint first?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

excuse me for being dim but are you agreeing with me or the other guy?

I'm disagreeing with Tollheit - there's no need to a request permission to be excused when presenting queries BTW.

Against pikemen, I order my hoplites to attack. If you do not, you allow the pikemen to fight on their terms, and your hoplites will get slaughtered.

I mistyped that, sorry. Against phalanx units, I do indeed order an attack against the foes, although I do wait till I'm pretty much right next to them and facing them directly before I order the assault. This prevents the lines bending and becoming disordered. Sorry for any confusion

Might I ask what battle difficulty level do you play on Tollheit? Easy results in something close to +4 attack to the player on the battlemap which provides a significant advantage to the human over the computer. This could explain the ease you are having in obliterating long piked phalanxes with heavy hoplite units alone.

[Tollheit]

OK, I did some testing battles, medium difficulty, plain level battle field, 1 armoured hoplite unit (me) against one bronze shield unit (AI), no experience, no upgrades.
3 matches for 3 different attack modes each:

Hoplites not ordered to attack:
-defeat, 161 kills by hoplites, 149 kills by BS
-defeat, 176 kills by hoplites, 139 kills by BS
-defeat, 147 kills by hoplites, 147 kills by BS

Hoplites ordered to attack in guard mode:
-defeat, 160 kills by hoplites, 155 kills by BS
-defeat, 211 kills by hoplites, 157 kills by BS
-defeat, 177 kills by hoplites, 148 kills by BS

Hoplites ordered to attack with guard mode off:
victory, 219 kills by hoplites, 101 kills by BS
victory, 215 kills by hoplites, 82 kills by BS
victory, 222 kills by hoplites, 95 kills by BS

Ordinary phalanx pikemen or levy pikemen were crushed by armored hoplites, no matter which method I chose.

Might I ask what battle difficulty level do you play on Tollheit? Easy results in something close to +4 attack to the player on the battlemap which provides a significant advantage to the human over the computer. This could explain the ease you are having in obliterating long piked phalanxes with heavy hoplite units alone.

My campaigns are on very hard/ normal. I was under the impression that there are no advantages/disadvantages in normal battle mode?

Do note, however, that there is no such thing as an armoured hoplite with no experience in my campaign, as they are invariably recruited in settlements with temples to Nike.

[Emperor Mithdrates]

[QUOTE=Tollheit;1970856]OK, I did some testing battles, medium difficulty, plain level battle field, 1 armoured hoplite unit (me) against one bronze shield unit (AI), no experience, no upgrades.
3 matches for 3 different attack modes each:

Hoplites not ordered to attack:
-defeat, 161 kills by hoplites, 149 kills by BS
-defeat, 176 kills by hoplites, 139 kills by BS
-defeat, 147 kills by hoplites, 147 kills by BS

Hoplites ordered to attack in guard mode:
-defeat, 160 kills by hoplites, 155 kills by BS
-defeat, 211 kills by hoplites, 157 kills by BS
-defeat, 177 kills by hoplites, 148 kills by BS

Hoplites ordered to attack with guard mode off:
victory, 219 kills by hoplites, 101 kills by BS
victory, 215 kills by hoplites, 82 kills by BS
victory, 222 kills by hoplites, 95 kills by BS

Ordinary phalanx pikemen or levy pikemen were crushed by armored hoplites, no matter which method I chose.[QUOTE]

I guess its just down to the player, what tactics and strategies they use and so forth.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I see the problem Tollheit - guard mode - I always switch it on to prevent units from chasing routers and disrupting the lines. That could be the issue.

Thanks BTW

[Tollheit]

Tollheit, have you actually voted on the poll yet.

I'm not allowed to vote on polls, but my vote would go to Greek cities (or Parthia on my equestrian days) if I were.

[Darkvicer98]

My vote goes to The Greeks. Thrace i would choose next.

I love both Hellanic and Barbarian Factions.