2 roman factions?

[oudysseos]

Yeah, Aulus, the point is that EB starts in the early 3rd century BC. Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Pompey, Spartacus: they do not appear in the game at all. If things had gone differently they might never have lived or been important. EB is not concerned with repeating history. The Romans were not the most powerful nation in the world at this time: the point of EB is to let history develop along alternative paths, only one of which is the Roman Empire.

You are welcome, of course, to make your own mini-mod.

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

Yeah, Aulus, the point is that EB starts in the early 3rd century BC. Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Pompey, Spartacus: they do not appear in the game at all. If things had gone differently they might never have lived or been important. EB is not concerned with repeating history. The Romans were not the most powerful nation in the world at this time: the point of EB is to let history develop along alternative paths, only one of which is the Roman Empire.

You are welcome, of course, to make your own mini-mod.

Ok now it's clear.
EB is right that follow this logic, and now I also agree with this mentality.
I am happy to find on this forum many people, like you Oudysseos, who speak clear and complete argumentation.
These people give me information (sometimes even historical) very interesting.
it is a pleasure to discuss with you.

[Connacht]

However, the possibility to fight with Romans vs Romans in custom battles and historical battles is truly rightful.
We have 32487483297987 hellenistic factions for instance, which can be deployed each one against another one, and so we can fight a thousand times with them in multiplayer - and also fight 324798798 battles with Ptolemaioi vs AS because we support an impartial distribution of factions.
The possibility to have a multiplayer edu in which the eleutheroi have a lot of other units, so that civil wars (and not only Roman ones!) can be simulated, is clearly fair imho.

[Bucefalo]

The possibility to have a multiplayer edu in which the eleutheroi have a lot of other units, so that civil wars (and not only Roman ones!) can be simulated, is clearly fair imho.

IIRC the M2TW engine allows the use of the eras system (early,high,late) in custom battles and the EB team said that they were going to use it. That means you could have a "era" completely dedicated to multiplayer, for example.

[Marcus Agrippa]

I'm sure it's very interesting to have the possiblilty of rome being destroyed before the famous republic became an empire but then didn't history show that rome had a huge advantage in army organisation and that carthage was the only sizable threat to Rome ever.
Because after than despite defeats the roman were simply too rich and powerful to be challenged by anyone else so the only real threat was internal. If you negate that possiblity then you might as well call them the roman empire with full emperor from the start.

[Cute Wolf]

Solution: Don't play EB, play Vanilla... and u have 4 roman faction bashing each other... if u one of them, but becomes one and annoying if u are the others...

Giving ALL units available to Eleutheroi is the best option we can bet...
(and made them playable in custom)