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thats a good point. I have never liked saba, and they are no threat to anyone. I dont think anyone finds them intresting or plays as them. But there is a good point that there couldnt be only elutheroi there. Trade are important, and having someone dominating there.
I find them great fun to play, and also to play against, the realm that alexander never got to invade is currently in my seleucid sights![]()
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the common Western thought of pre-Islamic Arabia!thats a good point. I have never liked saba, and they are no threat to anyone. I dont think anyone finds them intresting or plays as them.
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What's all this bagging on Saba? They're one of the more unique factions in the game.
Certainly better, from a flavor standpoint, than yet another greek or gallic faction.
Better, from a realism standpoint, than another roman faction.
What do we need to make EB better?
Certainly not eliminating existing factions, especially the ones that provide very different play challenges on both strategic and tactical levels. . . even if their best troops are dolts with sticks!
Hax & Divie got in there before I finished typing.
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Yeah, they are just a pain in the ass after all. Who needs Saba? But Saba is not the only faction that is totally superfluous. Who needs Aedui and Arverni? One Gallic faction should be more than enough. Who needs Epeiros? We all know that Pyrrhos, the Epeirote of some importance, was killed just a few turns into the game's start... Who needs Baktria? Aren't they just a Seleukid satrapy? They should be removed! The KH - just rebels... Makedonia? They got annihilated just 110 years into the game and never played an important role... All these backwater factions are only taking away precious space for the Romans. Without them, we could have a senate with funny missions, and, most important, three instead of just one Roman faction, so that we would be able to play out epic civil wars, with lots of lorica segmentata! Yeah! We would have much unit space free, so we could include the real important units: western Roman legions, eastern Roman legions, western Roman evocati, eastern Roman evocati, western Roman Antesignani, eastern Roman Antesignani, legions with lorica hamata, legions with lorica segmentata, Praetorians with lorica segmentata, early Roman archers, middle Roman archers, late Roman archers, auxiliary Roman archers with lorica hamata, auxiliary Roman archers with lorica segmentata, Praetorian cavalry, Praetorian cavalry with lorica segmentata, urban cohortes, urban cohortes with lorica... ah you get what I mean! ROMA VICTOR! ROMA VICTOR! ROMA VICTOR!
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Saba is great fun! one of my favourite factions. Very unique. You learn to love skirmishers!
And for the topic of the thread:
Not much can be done better... different but not better. AI expansion is pretty good but could be improved for a few factions. Hm...
I think ships should be made cheaper. The AI dont build any ships(I guess because of the price), you get pretty lonely on sea besides the pirates. I want some sea action! :D
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In my current game, the Romani and Karthadastim build plenty of Navies and ship around troops frequently, especially the latter ones. Even the Lusos have a navy.
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And especially when, y'know..it's sarcasm.
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really, what you said has alot to do with this thread? It is obviously a bunch of spam. You go on to name like every Roman unit in the game and you mention LS, which is in no way related to this thread. Also, what you mentioned that is not related to this thread: Urban cohort, roman auxillary archers with LS(which wasn't even in Vanilla), Roma Victor multiple times, etc. I mean, come on, since when do people post 10 smilies in a single post???
Did I inject "OMG Romanz roxors LS ROMA VICTOR" into this thread? no I didn't, and if you have a problem with my signature, there is a reason it is in spoilers, don't click on the spoiler if you don't want to.
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I didn't name every Roman unit in the game, I named Roman units that could be added to the game, if we were to sacrifice EB for lorica segmentata. There have been innumerable attempts to do so, and there is a submod that exactly does that, with some or even more of the units I mentioned. The vast majority of the improvements suggested in this thread would kill EB. People who wish so should better enjoy EB as it is or else play RTR or something like that.
It was a sarcastic approach to the thread that you didn't understand. ROMA VICTOR was also being sarcastic, or ROMA VICTA could have been even more sarcastic, but nevermind, you won't understand, just don't worry any more. I just made fun.
you know what, I cant even think of a way to improve EB that wouldnt be hardcoded. If only the AI was amazing EB would be the most perfect game ever.
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personaly saba was my first choice even though i didn't play them for too long
I have never played as Saba, and probably won't until EBII comes out and I start browsing through every faction again to see any changes. That being said, I recognize its importance in Arabia and preventing weird things happening in that region with the Parthians. Besides, the new way that they said are utilizing scripts in EBII makes me believe for some (weird and probably not backed by any factual evidence) reason that any stuff left out (Alexander's tomb) due to using the senate faction can be included even if all the faction slots in EBII are used. If I am wrong about that, please disregard this post because I am idiot.
Last edited by a completely inoffensive name; 11-21-2008 at 08:50.
Repent or I will send you my cataphractsYou could always get rid of unimportant factions like rome, parthia or armenia to make room for the mighty senate [/joke]
forgot to re-editdone now...
Last edited by Atraphoenix; 11-21-2008 at 10:23.
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Atraphoenix, note the [/joke] at the end of the sentence. Which shouldn't even be necessary to recognize it as one.
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I like saba fine
but to improve EB I REALLY want better-looking roman Cohortes. I mean, look at all the beautiful units Baktria and all the factions have, and the great looking units if the romans, and then you see the cohortes reformata and it just kinda gets ruined. I'm not saying theyre ugly, but the face definatley can be done better. Maybe some stubble or something on the face like the late Hastati, and coolus helmets. and foot dont take this the wrong way because I am in no way insulting the EB team. Bit of constructive criticism, is all
(if there is a minimod like this, please tell me)
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"In order to test a man's strength of character, do not give him adversity, for any man can handle adversity, but instead give him POWER.
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yes I agree that the post-marian legionaries could be done in a different way and I also think that the imperial legionaries could use a little bit of resizing and skinning. but they aren't horrible and I still like them. also the faction as a whole is well done and complete, so I shouldn't be complaining about it.
watch out about the constructive criticism thing, it is not very welcome by this forum or the EB team. that's why so many people get flamed for it.
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I agree with you. I look forward to play Pergamon and with other German Factions if available in EB2.It just needs MTWII Kingdons engine!!!!!!
BTW, what is the hardcode for Kingdoms for faction numbers we can play; 10 more?
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My AAR/Guides How to assault cities with Horse Archers? RISE OF ARSACIDS! (A Pahlava AAR) - finishedSpoiler Alert, click show to read:
History is written by the victor." Winston Churchill
Yup, 10.BTW, what is the hardcode for Kingdoms for faction numbers we can play; 10 more?
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Slightly off-topic, but this bears mentionning: priorities! There are so many things that we could (eventually) do with the RTW engine to satisfy a solid 75% [1] of everyone who ever complained about or suggested even the slightest thing on these entire forums -- and by the time it would finally be ready for release, we'd be distributing it as a brain chip for your grandson's third-generation holo-neural interface.
So the stonewalls some of you get for your "potentially reasonable" suggestions or assertions are often HR-related.
Anyhow, enjoy EB1.2, and we'll get back to working on EBII
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