EB impressions and questions

**athanaric** · 01-31-2012, 20:49

Originally Posted by Ca Putt

About Carthage, I agree with you. Afaik the fields of north africa even were very important during imperial Rome. I'm sure there is no special script or building for the fields of north africa but I presume the Farming level and fertility is rather high.

Also, there is the "grain" resource, which increases trade. It's quite abundant in some provinces in EB. Moreover, Carthage is one of the few factions that can establish tier 3 farming upgrades (SPQR, Saba, and Pahlava are the others).

**Nightmare** · 02-01-2012, 06:44

Originally Posted by athanaric

Also, there is the "grain" resource, which increases trade. It's quite abundant in some provinces in EB. Moreover, Carthage is one of the few factions that can establish tier 3 farming upgrades (SPQR, Saba, and Pahlava are the others).

Also, while this does not have anything to do with farming per se, Carthage has the largest ports (commercial and military) one can build, plus some "wonder" about their special port and harbor. I presume they also get trade bonuses and what not, but I don't know for sure.

**Myth** · 02-01-2012, 10:17

Aye it was indeed important, it became Rome's granary during the imperial era. I can provide quotes from a book on that.

**athanaric** · 02-01-2012, 11:50

Originally Posted by Nightmare

Also, while this does not have anything to do with farming per se, Carthage has the largest ports (commercial and military) one can build, plus some "wonder" about their special port and harbor. I presume they also get trade bonuses and what not, but I don't know for sure.

Yup I forgot to mention that, they get extra trade boni from ports (I've looked it up in the EDB file).

**Ca Putt** · 02-01-2012, 12:17

Yet another reason Carthage is one of the few factions that does not go bankrupt for the first 6 turn. We(me and probably the EB team^^) hope that's enough to satisfy your suggestion :)

**moonburn** · 02-02-2012, 18:30

regarding the horse archers factions it´s important to say that altough the sauromatae don´t have acess to a few more elite and armoured horse archers their basic horse archers are cheaper and they can recruit their native horse archers from the mercenary pools wich helps save up some much needed population in the steppes and gives you the hability to recruit a fast native army wich is extremly cost effecient

**Blxz** · 02-03-2012, 06:27

Plus they (and possibly the Saka too) can recruit their settled horsearchers anywhere over the whole map. This gives them a massive retraining range (everywhere except the steppes themselves). Absolutely awesome!

**Brennus** · 02-07-2012, 13:04

Originally Posted by Blxz

Plus they (and possibly the Saka too) can recruit their settled horsearchers anywhere over the whole map. This gives them a massive retraining range (everywhere except the steppes themselves). Absolutely awesome!

By contrast this is the reason Casse games become very difficult outside the British Isles (although that is also the case for many factions outside their homeland, the channel just makes it more difficult, especially when swarming with Eleutheroi pirates).