Favorite Barbarian Faction

[the man with no name]

This is made for Kevin

And technically Epeiros is a barbarian faction so don't complain.

[Kevin]

haha thanks

[Phalanx300]

This is made for Kevin

And technically Epeiros is a barbarian faction so don't complain.

It isn't, Epeiros is Greek with Illyrian influences in the same way Makedonia has Tracian ones. In EB Epeiros controls some Illyrian land.

Sweboz, and wasn't there a tread exactly like this one?

[J.R.M]

Sweboz.. I love those units.
It seems a "Were Epirotes barbarians or not?" debate is coming...

[athanaric]

Either we allow this poll to have a humorous edge by adding Epeiros or other mediterranean factions to it, or we should make it a serious poll with only the 6 factions in it that belong to the "Barbarian" culture group ingame. Those are: Lusotannan, Getai, Swêboz, Arverni, Aedui, Casse. No others. Being "Barbarian" in this game does not refer to the brutality of the faction, which is pretty equally distributed between all 20 of them anyway.

Claiming Epeiros is not Barbarian while letting Romans pass as Barbarians is just .

[the man with no name]

It isn't, Epeiros is Greek with Illyrian influences in the same way Makedonia has Tracian ones. In EB Epeiros controls some Illyrian land.

Sweboz, and wasn't there a tread exactly like this one?

The thread had no poll.

Epeiros was originally scripted as a barbarian faction.
(Note:I said that Epeiros was technicallya barbarian faction.

@J.R.M.: How could you guess?
@Kevin:No problem
@athanaric: he's right it was, for me, somewhat of a joke.

[Hax]

Epeiros was originally scripted as a barbarian faction.
(Note:I said that Epeiros was technicallya barbarian faction.

...uh, no. Epeiros has the Western Greek culture, ingame and had a Hellenic ruling class. Their soldiers were Hellenic, with some minor Illyrian influence. It's like saying that Kart-Hadast was Numidian just because of their position.

[DaciaJC]

Please do away with the Romani and Epeiros options. Enough is enough already.

I voted Getai.

[Ludens]

Epeiros was originally scripted as a barbarian faction.

That's the first I hear of it. Although many Epirotes were Illyrians and Thracians rather than Hellenes, there were several major Hellenic cities and the culture of the ruling dynasty was Greek. So it isn't even "technically" a barbarian faction. At best, it's a Hellenic faction with a mostly barbarian population, in the same way that the Seleucid Empire is a Hellenic faction with a mostly Eastern population.

[the man with no name]

Please do away with the Romani and Epeiros options. Enough is enough already.

I voted Getai.

I would get rid of Epeiros if i could cuz of the amount of complaints. The romani are truly barbarians though, unlike us Gauls

@Hax and Ludens: sorry if i'm wrong, i heard it out there somewhere.

[Olaf The Great]

Well I guess technically the Romani are Celts with Heavy Greek influence but eh.

I voted for Casse, I love their units and their nice slow starting position, don't really like their lacking infrastructure though but it's usually not a big deal. I play them the most, late game they're a bit weird to play, as they don't have a "line" infantry unit to speak of, but they don't really need it, just tons of shock infantry and heavy cavalry with those nice Skirmishers and slingers to whittle them down. They also get one of the three Man-Tank units.

Hate their bodyguard unit though, too flimsy for a General.

I really like the Aedui too, but other than Casse I'd say Swezboz definitely, while they lack even more infrastructure their units are -amazing- and they still have an excellent starting position, maybe not as safe once the Romans start steamrolling but you still got a bit of leeway in the beginning They get access to +4 exp units under the right conditions, and that allows you to reliably take on both the Romans and the Boii supermen.