Most boring faction to play as

[Aemilius Paulus]

In a dark, dark past I once played Romaioi. The only time I quitted voluntarily after having effortlessly become filthy rich and unstoppable. Didn't even wait for Polybians.

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc). That is the satalexton in you speaking.

[penguinking]

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc).

Wrong!

Ok.. if you guess what faction I am then I'll give you a balloon


Autumn 266BC

No.. not KH

Actually Moros mentioned them already.. so he really should get the balloon

Yes.. I'm Romani.. on the little island called Corsica..

How I ended up there?? Well.. you need to have some skill to loose as a Romani and looks like I have that skill

My southern legion was defeated by the Epirotes because they brought(or recruited?) reinforcements and when I finally attacked them there was too large of a force against me..

Foolishly I used my northern army to attack Corsica (I wanted to spice up my game!).. My navy was defeated by the Carthagian navy and I was stranded on that island. Before I managed to get a new legion the Carthagian army near Lilibaeo came and attacked Capua and then Rome.. Because I was in dept when that happened I had no chance to recruit any units to protect my northern cities and they too fell to the Carthagians.. Epirote managed to get Arpi in the same time when Carthage took Rome..

There is one good thing in this campaign actually.. the Carthage and Epirotes are at war now.. Epirotes took Capua and are heading south against Rhegion(Carthagians just took it last turn)..

Have to say that this have been one of the most interesting campaigns because I have never seen Carthage to become so powerful so fast..

[Moros]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

[Ibrahim]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

well, it is boring..at least early on. but it certainly isn't the most boring.

problem is the lack of funds. I'm playing it right now, and I had to disband my army 5 times now to keep it all afloat.

but it gets fun once you conquer 4 settlements.

say, how on earth does one train those elephants? I know you can get them in saba, from africa... I think its type III or IV, but I'm not sure

[Aemilius Paulus]

Saba, boring!?
Who said that!?

I did . Everyone knows that. Which is why Saba was and is on the top of that EB II thread which basically asks which EB faction least deserves its place IOHO (in our humble opinion).

But, I do remember you saying that Saba will be revamped in EBII, with many new units.

[Moros]

I did . Everyone knows that. Which is why Saba was and is on the top of that EB II thread which basically asks which EB faction least deserves its place IOHO (in our humble opinion).

But, I do remember you saying that Saba will be revamped in EBII, with many new units.

Yes. It will gain a few strong factional units but especially a lot of regionals. I'd expect EBII to have more than 20 arab units.
Also actually I must agree saba is boring even though the campaign 'an sich'would be very promising, well content wise it is. But that's because a lot never got made or finished. Either way as I will work on EBII's saba I'll have automatically extra content than could possibly be made into a small patch for EBI. And I'm also be helping AtB with fleshing out the Sabaeans more.

I'll only be content if Saba and the rest of Arbia in it's whole get represented as good as any other faction and region, and showing people that saba diserves a slot. Also I think I'll be very succesfull in making saba and arabia interesting, and hopefully set certain people to love this sadly forgotten, disregarded and neglected part of history.

[DaciaJC]

I started a Sab'yn campaign yesterday, and I'm having a blast. Their position is somewhat regrettable, and it's clear that there is still work to be done, but playing as Saba is far from boring, in my opinion.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Re: Saba
Though I knew very little about them when I started, I tried to fill in as much as I could (outside of the units themselves, which I had no part in) to make them feel more interesting, like their ritual banquet building tree and the ritual hunts and festivals, their temples, their ethnicity traits, a few unique buildings for the region, their own unique looking spies and diplomats on the campaign map, etc. For a the last faction we added and one so different from the rest, I think we did a fairly good job with them. I'll also admit that I pretty freely took a lot from a few of the best academic works that I could find on them. I do wish we could have found someone or a group who would let us use some appropriate traditional music, but TPC's eastern songs help out for sure. Someone filling in like that is necessary when the big proponents of a new faction vanish. I did talk with some phd students who were working on the Sabaeans, but none would agree to help us (though Jean-Francois Breton himself did give a little in the way of advice and some leads).

[satalexton]

Oh joy, the more to join the service of Arche Makedonia =D

Oh Fatherland of Glory,
Vergina sun shines bright!
Sons of Alexandros,
All Hail Makedonia!!

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Liar. Everyone is at least OK with the Romans unless they did something stupid to screw up the game (cheats, no fixes=CTDs, reloading, not activating script, etc). That is the satalexton in you speaking.

Yes I WAS OK with teh Romanz, but then happened what I said. And that was the best to happen, since I immadiately started my first Makedonian campaign, and that's basically what made me the fantastic dude I am today.

[Satyros]

I would have to agree about Saba , I really prefer to wander in the steppe , if I am to choose between wastelands that is .

On the other hand I absolutely hate playing with the Empires at the start of the game : Carthage , Ptolemy , Seleukeia . Haven't managed to get to turn 3 with them .

After all , you get to kick their collective butt as KH , my absolutely favorite faction ( except for the fact that my Spartan Generals don't get to have Spartan bodyguards later in the game - oh the tragedy , boo-hoo )

Satyros

[ARCHIPPOS]

3 most boring choices:
1) Seleukids ...just the idea of managing 20+ cities every turn from turn 1 kills my motivation for playing them... I prefer starting small ,then building up ...

2)Casse ... though i really like them as afaction and they get a great starting position their economy is just too lousy during the first decades... weak economy+weak starting army=not much action...o and their charriot command is possibly the lousiest unit in EB (looks cool though)

3)the Romans... i got soooooo bored of them after playing the Julii and Brutii RTW campaigns...

[satalexton]

The Romaioi, it was simply a point, a grunt, then a WAAAGH!!! They're better off digging in mines or serving as pack animals.

[MerlinusCDXX]

The Romaioi, it was simply a point, a grunt, then a WAAAGH!!! They're better off digging in mines or serving as pack animals serving as practice targets.

Quoted for half-truth. They make shitty pack animals compared to my steppe ponies. I've corrected the quote underlined text=line-through.

[Maion Maroneios]

Romaioi.

Maion