About a cheap ways to win in Eb online battles

[jirisys]

I dont understand what all the non-Romans are complaining about... Rome's only advantage is its infantry cohorts... their cavalry is subpar as well as their archery... granted, guard mode does give a fair advantage in melee, but is such an ability unavailable to non Romans?! I don't want to hear about cohorts being more expensive... all throughout history prices are dictated by supply and demand, and to me, Rome had by far the greatest sources of supply for military equipment IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLD UP UNTIL YOU AND I CAME OUT OF THE EGG LIKE BARNEY PEEPS!

I dont know how many times i've created gaps in a pike phalanx line, only to send my highly disciplined cohorts to engage loose-formationed archers IN GUARD MODE and have them take relatively equal kill ratios vs them (i.e. bosphoran archers). It's really amazing, because you literally see your cohorts lose 1 man for every archer... but after all, they are 'tired' and the archer is 'fresh' so maybe that has something to do with it... Furthermore, there is nothing more "cheap" in EB than watching cohorts duke it out vs pikemen in melee-mode as if pikemen had any quality with the sword in any history book ever written in history! So please, chill!

The fact is this is a videogame. In Street Fighter, everyone knew Ryu being able to pass-through a Hadouken with a Horyuken was bs... but that is why Ken could do it, Why Guile could to it with the sonic kick, why Blanka developed the vertical ballspin, why Zangief got the spinner, Dhalsim teleportation, etc... feel me people?... Its a virtual game!... as long as you can't do something I can't, then all should be fair.

Oh and besides, this July tourney is already skewed for you non-Romans... you practically get an OP'd, unhistorical roster, that allows factions such as Pontos to generate whole squadrons of steepe cavalry... or Successor states to be given Greek units as if all of Greece was ever a subject to Egypt or Seluecia... I mean the other day I saw Bactria use Dahae Riders... and Bactria as Steepe... I know we're supposed to have fun... but I thought EB was made for those who wanted to have "historical" fun, the fun that comes with thinking you are recreating a true, realistic thing, not some generic "fun" that is made up for mere entertainment (i.e. Vanilla!) Right peeps?!

What the

Are you kidding me?

USE PRE-MARIANS!

Besides, try to recruit a legion in samartia, see how well you succeed

It's not about what you would do in campaign, it's what army do you bring, to counter the best army they can bring according to regulation, may i ask you... Can't you recruit a mercenary (non-Equites Gallorum/Hispanorum) cavalry, yes, but you don't.

Also, the seleucids also did have more manpower than puny camillan rome... Does that mean that you are going to face an unit of triarii with 500000 Seleucid Agryaspides? This game MUST be fair, real life doesn't, and well, discussing about other games (EVEN similar to nothing at all with this one) and their "Unbelievable abilities" is a complete, and utter Non-argument

Well, as far as i know, no army is more OP than the phalanx ones, and Post-Marians ones.

YOU CAN'T ROLEPLAY ON MP!

~Jirisys (You really swell up my )

[SlickNicaG69]

What the

Are you kidding me?

USE PRE-MARIANS!

Besides, try to recruit a legion in samartia, see how well you succeed

It's not about what you would do in campaign, it's what army do you bring, to counter the best army they can bring according to regulation, may i ask you... Can't you recruit a mercenary (non-Equites Gallorum/Hispanorum) cavalry, yes, but you don't.

Also, the seleucids also did have more manpower than puny camillan rome... Does that mean that you are going to face an unit of triarii with 500000 Seleucid Agryaspides? This game MUST be fair, real life doesn't, and well, discussing about other games (EVEN similar to nothing at all with this one) and their "Unbelievable abilities" is a complete, and utter Non-argument

Well, as far as i know, no army is more OP than the phalanx ones, and Post-Marians ones.

YOU CAN'T ROLEPLAY ON MP!

~Jirisys (You really swell up my )

This guy just knows how to kill a thread.

You should've worked for Bush man when he was going out of office. You might've made him win again the way you brush aside facts like Cato would've convenient luxuries!

We're not here to discuss what you think should be fair bro... ask anybody who plays EB... they play this because it seeks to be more realistic than your self-centered, every-faction-should-be-equally-powerful, utopian approach...

Play Vanilla man! You can use big rottweilers, flaming pigs, heck even Roman Horse Archers for when you in the mood for cheeese.

But really, defense mode... it's simple... don't stack.