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    Germania for me. I hate, hate, hate forest battles. Not to mention the Germanoi have those frickin' fanatics and ambushers that make me time a living hell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios View Post
    Germania for me. I hate, hate, hate forest battles. Not to mention the Germanoi have those frickin' fanatics and ambushers that make me time a living hell.

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    I hate them too. Not only does it disrupt all my nice and neat formations, those damn trees make it near impossible to actually see what's happening on the battlefield. And what's your reward for conquering them? A bunch of worthless, coffer-draining, resourceless swamps and forests. No wonder the Romans never bothered with them.

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    i wish that the forests would have realistic-sized trees. then it would be easier to see. plus maybe some variation? sapplings and variations in size would be nice.............

    anyway:

    @archippos: you cannot move ships in unless you build them south-east of alexandria. there is land on the nile preventing any ships landind farther south than the meditteranean coastline.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prussian Iron View Post
    @archippos: you cannot move ships in unless you build them south-east of alexandria. there is land on the nile preventing any ships landind farther south than the meditteranean coastline.
    but hey that still leaves the ports of Memphis,Diospoli , Petra, Ptolemais and Axem from which you can launch a naval invasion, no???
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    THERE.IS.NO.LAND.ON.THE.NILE.PERIOD.

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    Ahem... no. You can actually traverse the Nile-Red Sea-Channel.
    It would be so cool if the faction that owned the Canal was able to invest money in keeping it open. That way, it either wouldn't be functional, or you could spend thousands of mnai to maintain it and thus have the advantage of being able to move between the Arabian and Mediterranean Seas at will.

    It could be done with a very expensive and time-consuming building, I guess. Too bad it wouldn't work with the TW engine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus View Post
    Ahem... no. You can actually traverse the Nile-Red Sea-Channel.
    ahem....no you cannot traverse it. at least not with any faction i have played (including saba). you cannot go through it unless you own alexandria, and at that point you are already in a war with the ptolemies and are too busy to bother with saba.

    Quote Originally Posted by ARCHIPPOS View Post
    but hey that still leaves the ports of Memphis,Diospoli , Petra, Ptolemais and Axem from which you can launch a naval invasion, no???
    petra? my memory is foggy but i dont think they have a port in the arabian sea.

    and unless you are arche seleukia or the ptolemies, you have to conquer many large cities to get those ports.
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    Βασιλευς και Αυτοκρατωρ Αρχης Member Centurio Nixalsverdrus's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios View Post
    Germania for me. I hate, hate, hate forest battles. Not to mention the Germanoi have those frickin' fanatics and ambushers that make me time a living hell.
    Hopefully you have installed the tree fix?

    Besides, at least in the open the Germanoi are absolutely no match for the Makedones.

    Quote Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
    you cannot move ships in unless you build them south-east of alexandria. there is land on the nile preventing any ships landind farther south than the meditteranean coastline.
    Ahem... no. You can actually traverse the Nile-Red Sea-Channel.
    Last edited by Centurio Nixalsverdrus; 07-06-2009 at 16:16.

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    Quote Originally Posted by option View Post
    I hate them too. Not only does it disrupt all my nice and neat formations, those damn trees make it near impossible to actually see what's happening on the battlefield. And what's your reward for conquering them? A bunch of worthless, coffer-draining, resourceless swamps and forests. No wonder the Romans never bothered with them.
    Seconded for truth. Swamps and damn dark, unprofitable forests indeed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus View Post
    Hopefully you have installed the tree fix?

    Besides, at least in the open the Germanoi are absolutely no match for the Makedones.
    I have, but there are still trees that annoy me. As for the Germanoi being no match for the Makedones in the open, I plead to disagree. The Germanoi are fierce fighters, I've experienced their wrath first-hand. It's their fighting system and lack of of military techology that makes them weak when it comes down to it, if you ask me. Naked screaming men can be a fearsome sight to behold, but a disciplined and harshly drilled soldier is not easily scared. Plus, the screaming in not going to do you any good when a Katapeltes fires a bolt in your face.

    Of course, there are always those friggin' numbers of them. Like bacteria, they multiply like crazy. Good thing there are diseases and warfare that keep their numbers in check.

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    Last edited by Maion Maroneios; 07-06-2009 at 19:10.
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