I have found true about the Roman Republic

[Kepper]

The Roman a conquer the world because they can teleporte there army´s.
I as just having a fun game it Karthadastim, have conquer Taras and Rhegion, i am besieging Arpi.
There are no Roman army in the region but but suddenly there is spy in front of Arpi and the spy just
disappeared, one second later there is a army of three unit´s besieging Arpi.
True Story, believe my.

[konny]

Yes, the AI sometimes uses the force beaming. I had once observed it in Spain where an army of Lusotans was able to get form southern Spain to the very north of it in one turn ignoring all ZOCs from my towns, armies and fortresses. Another time I saw a Ptolemaian army that made it from Alexandria to Sidon in the speed record of one turn.

There are other examples where I often thought "eh? where did these come from?!?", when an enemy full stack appeared out of the nowhere excaactly where the AI desperatly needed troops.

[Kepper]

This is cheating, but have luck there just three unit´s in the next they are

[Bovarius]

just look at it as an army that could sneak up to you undetected. Has happened in history, so why not in EB ?

[Intranetusa]

Once my army lost a battle near Carthage, and the closest ship was in Egypt...so they retreated from Carthage to Egypt (1/3 of the world probably) in a single turn. O_o

troop movement at mach speeds

[Megas Methuselah]

Lol, I hate it when long retreats like that happen... Ah well, doesn't spoil the fun!

[Jolt]

Yes, the AI sometimes uses the force beaming. I had once observed it in Spain where an army of Lusotans was able to get form southern Spain to the very north of it in one turn ignoring all ZOCs from my towns, armies and fortresses. Another time I saw a Ptolemaian army that made it from Alexandria to Sidon in the speed record of one turn.

There are other examples where I often thought "eh? where did these come from?!?", when an enemy full stack appeared out of the nowhere excaactly where the AI desperatly needed troops.

Non-sense. It's just armies being trained by Usain Bolt.

[konny]

Who?

[Rodrico Stak]

I think he's the Jamaican who won one of the races in the Olympics. A newspaper article I saw called him the fastest man in the world.

[Maion Maroneios]

The Roman a conquer the world because they can teleporte there army´s.
I as just having a fun game it Karthadastim, have conquer Taras and Rhegion, i am besieging Arpi.
There are no Roman army in the region but but suddenly there is spy in front of Arpi and the spy just
disappeared, one second later there is a army of three unit´s besieging Arpi.
True Story, believe my.

Well, things like that don't happen. I think the most possible senario is that the army was already present, though hiding in a nearby forest. It happens, you know that's why you always have to scout an area with your own spies before invading a hostile territory. As for the dissapearing spy, let's just say that spies are supposed to hide from you. You can't see them, unless you bumb into them with a spy/assasin/diplomat/army of yours.

Maion

[Allhopeforhumanity]

I have found that the Egyptions use the same technique, I was fighting the Seleluciads in turkey when all of a sudden they had a full stack next to two of my cities. Then they suddenly betray me after about 40 years of allience in order to "spice things up" i suppose. Things have been going down hill since.

On a side note, anyone know the best way to beat the elite phalengites as the greeks? I have been utterly surrounding them with hoplites after an attempt to whittle them down with ranged weapons but it seems like one squad of them is more than a match for 5 squads of hoplites.

[Maion Maroneios]

On a side note, anyone know the best way to beat the elite phalengites as the greeks? I have been utterly surrounding them with hoplites after an attempt to whittle them down with ranged weapons but it seems like one squad of them is more than a match for 5 squads of hoplites.

First of all, welcome to the forums!
As for the elite phalangites, I must they are a tough nut to crack but they have the exact same weaknesses as normal phalangites. That is, flank or rear attacks. Use hoplites (Hoplitai excell in these job) on guard mode to pin them, then try and wheel some good cavalry like the Xystophoroi or Thessalikoi and make continuous charges in their backs. You can also use some other hoplites or good heavy infantry like Thorakitai to encircle them and attack their sides or rear.

Another nifty trick is to use elevated terrain. If you can lure them into fighting you on a hilltop, you will be able to slaughter them even with a simple Hoplitai unit. Otherwise just try and avoid them as much as you can, because if they have the terrain in their favour they can be a real pain in the @$$.

Maion

[Allhopeforhumanity]

Thanks for the heads up, ive been kind of avoiding cavalry other than the missle variety. Ill give it a shot after work and see if i cant turn the tide.

[yanks186]

Carthage did the same exact thing for me actually. I am Romani and I was beseging them, when all of sudden a faction heir appears in the city? Or worse yet, I took all of their cities who could build elite units, yet each one of their crappy little towns had a garrison of the elite phalanx men, along with a magical carthaginian stack appearing with their elite african men along with elephants?

[Jolt]

Who?

This guy.

He won the 100 meters sprint by such an advance that he was already slowing down and celebrating when he was like 6 meters away from reaching the final line. And with that display he still broke the World Record in the 100 sprint. >_>

I just found it funny to connect that man and the super fast troops who go from Egypt to Syria in "speed record" time :P

[Aemilius Paulus]

Yes, the AI sometimes uses the force beaming. I had once observed it in Spain where an army of Lusotans was able to get form southern Spain to the very north of it in one turn ignoring all ZOCs from my towns, armies and fortresses. Another time I saw a Ptolemaian army that made it from Alexandria to Sidon in the speed record of one turn.

There are other examples where I often thought "eh? where did these come from?!?", when an enemy full stack appeared out of the nowhere excaactly where the AI desperatly needed troops.

Wow. Is this EB script/bug or the vanilla RTW?

[bovi]

Even if we for some reason would want to do so, we couldn't. I've never seen it, but if it happens (as in, it's not just an army that lay in ambush somewhere) it's an RTW thing.

[Tollheit]

Carthage did the same exact thing for me actually. I am Romani and I was beseging them, when all of sudden a faction heir appears in the city?

He was probably just adopted on that very turn.

[konny]

For both examples I can exclude overlooked armies in ambush or garrisons from other towns because both enemy armies were very unique in their composition and level of experince that could not have been two of them on the map.

This guy.

He won the 100 meters sprint by such an advance that he was already slowing down and celebrating when he was like 6 meters away from reaching the final line. And with that display he still broke the World Record in the 100 sprint. >_>

Ah this one (didn't know his name). That might be true; AFASIK medication was well advanced in Ancient Egypt....

[tapanojum]

I thought that I had also experienced a teleporting Roman army. I had a half stack take a city in northern Italy, while another full stack was moving up from Rhegion, with only a few loose 1-2 unit stacks of Roman troops in between. Suddenly, my full stack engaged a FULL Roman stack the next turn. Turns out, almost the entire stack were merc.

It wasn't a teleporting army, it was just a merc army.

phew