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    Re: How much cavalry do you use?

    Unless I play a nomad faction (when the entire field army can be made of cavalry) it's between 3 to 5 on wings or hidden behind the main line.
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    Re: How to use scythed chariots?

    Simply put, I don't field elephants or chariots. Cheaper units can fulfill their function and are easier to replace.

    The only real use for elephants in my campaigns is game-y recruitment for...
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    Re: Imperial Roman Legions ?

    Within the mod timeframe you'd only have Gallic helmets and Kalkyriese segmentatas appearing in the mix for the soldier models. For some of them. That's only a material for an armor upgrade mechanic.
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    Re: Makedon ruling greek

    Epirus and Makedon had dynastic ties (except not for Antigonids and you play Antigonids as Makedon) and cultural similarities (both Doric Greek kingdoms). In case one took over another it'd be either...
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    Re: Embezzlers all

    Blow them monies on the Royal Fleets and them barely useful elephants. Might as well start collecting lithoboloi. Best argument for dealing with rebellions.

    -"Eleutheria! We will fight in the...
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    Re: Two-handers - Historical Question

    Lack of shield, or even armor, might not be that crippling if you can defend yourself in hand-to-hand. I mean, if you are skilled. Most often it'd mean belonging to the elite who can focus on their...
  7. Re: Reinterpretation of the Mars of Todi armor?

    It's almost certainly made of fabric. Etruscan "hellenizing" sculptural art can be very literal. Every line and wrinkle is rendered. If it was lamellar, then cords holding plates together would be...
  8. Re: Are there female warriors in the Scythian units?

    Steppe garb worn in the field would be unisex. No woman fit for combat would end being built like a Victoria's Secret model. Not in cultures promoting equal level of aggression for both genders. If...
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    Re: RTW VS MTW in EB

    RTW BAI suiciding over trying to advance through a defended river ford with an army of equal strength vs M2TW BAI being possible to lure into doing this only if they have heavy advantage in shock...
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    Re: What is your favorite unit?

    Camillan era Hastati are reasonably good well-rounded unit. I think they're so available in Italy because they're supposed to represent not only Romans but the "generic" common Italian tactics for...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    IMO mass 1.15 is what thorakitai should have. The Cohors Sociorum have this mass per soldier and it makes them actually capable of holding the line. I'm using them for comparison because they have...
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    Re: Suggestion to a new player

    Hard campaign difficulty, because EB2 looses a lot of its flavor on Medium. On the Hard level the independents besiege settlements instead of only raiding the fields. The diplomacy remains functional...
  13. Re: How much human suffering have you caused over the course of your Total War career?

    Bringing a town or a city down to 400 still is handy, though. They won't rebel for a long time after that. I was managing the human resources this way in Cisalpine and Sparta, then the cities were...
  14. Re: How much human suffering have you caused over the course of your Total War career?

    Not that much. Aside of having to perform multiple repeated depopulations in regions where the populace was asking for it. Like Cisalpine Italian provinces (rebelling and murdering their client ruler...
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    Poll: Re: Which is your favorite faction?

    Pahlava and Hayasdan cuz them Ērānšahr. I should stop replaying mostly these two.

    But I also had a field day playing Epeiros from time to time and I'm going to replay them after the new patch.
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    Re: What use is diplomacy?

    If an allied faction has no other direction for their expansion left they will attack. It's only a matter of time. It's just that usually by this point all the players campaign objectives were...
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    Re: What use is diplomacy?

    They stay on your side if you're reliable and they can't catch you backstabbing them in any manner (like your assassinations of their agents being unsuccessful and detected, for an example)....
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    Re: What use is diplomacy?

    No need to be this nice. It's enough to cancel the trade rights and give them some kind of impossible demands first. Although I do like provoking neighbouring factions into attacking me first, with...
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    Re: What use is diplomacy?

    On anyone else. Especially if they're from the other end of the map... :ninja:


    Taksashilan and Sweboz diplomatic corps mortality rate skyrocketed on my Epirus campaign.


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    I mean, the...
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    Re: What use is diplomacy?

    Alliances are useful and they last in EB2, but you have to work on keeping your diplomatic credibility. Don't :wub: on your allies and don't punch people randomly just because they are there. I...
  21. Re: Has anyone found the Big Guy south of Arabia?

    You can't reach him. I tried, just to see what'll happen.
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    Re: Rome loyalty issue

    Play a Hellenic kingdom to create your own Monthy Python universe.
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    Re: Iberian Linen armor

    Most of the "leather" armor was either rawhide or cuirboili (not to mention it was mostly scale/lamellar to capitalize on the greater stiffness of the smaller pieces). Unhardened, soft tanned leather...
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    Sticky: Re: Fans suggestion thread for future releases

    TBH I'd slow down the population growth... If it's possible on the game engine. It's not taking very long for the one's major settlements to turn into the Rome or Alexandreia-rate behemoths.
  25. Re: Faction re-emergence triggers for unhappy settlements under rebel control

    Factions can re-emerge multiple times.


    Pselkis
    Pselkis
    Pselkis
    Antiochia
    Ephesus
    Pergamon
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    Re: The thread for horrible suggestions

    A new battle theme for the Hellenic factions - "Everybody does phalanx fighting" to this tune:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBKjK7Xik0
  27. Re: How did the EBII devs decide on the names for Government buildings?

    You need to simply translate the name to Chinese because the initial stages of government for Greeks and Romans are more-or-less this. "The land taken with a spear" and "regional pacification". I...
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    Re: Parody Units

    Thigh-flasher is an actual derogatory term other Greeks were using for them.
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    Re: Parody Units

    *Looks at pantodapoi.*
    *Looks at pantodapoi phalangitai*

    At this point even Pantodapoi Hypaspistai wouldn't be a stretch.
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    Re: Parody Units

    Flaming Pantodapoi: Set ablaze and rushed into the enemy lines, they frighten the foot and the horse.
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    Re: Parody Units

    Thigh-flashers: An all-female unit only recruitable for KH in Sparta. Lower morale for all Hellenic units unless they're Spartan hoplites.

    Rambling Philosophers: Only recruitable by KH in Athens....
  32. Re: Horses and elephants seem really good at dodging projectiles.

    I'm not sure if, of all units, Peltenai need a boost.


    At least they're balanced. Something you can't say of Thureophorontes Toxotai/Hippotoxotai.


    Although I do agree that cavalry is a...
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    Sticky: Re: Fans suggestion thread for future releases

    On the other hand, Thureophoroi recruitment is increased by the military reform which has a prerequisite of giving grants of free land to the citizen to increase the amount of citizenry able to serve.
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    Re: BailianSteel's Art of Siege

    Considering that I rarely assault cities without having numeric advantage over the defenders (otherwise I besiege and wait for their sallies if the defenders are roughly equal in numbers), for taking...
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    Re: BailianSteel's Art of Siege

    Personally I find skirmishers very useful in sieges for quickly capturing gates and city squares. Disclaimer: good quality skirmishers capable of stand and fight.

    I also find lithoboloi useful,...
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    Re: Parody Units

    Syrakousai steam cannons. It needs to be a thing. With the Antikythera mechanism-styled fire directors.
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    Sticky: Re: Fans suggestion thread for future releases

    It's best to ignore the family tree. It's a hardcoded leftover from the vanila M2TW mechanics. It's very simplified, has to start with a single ancestor and eventually will include even the faction...
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    Sticky: Re: Fans suggestion thread for future releases

    I think that Hellenic Thureophoroi could use the free_upkeep_unit attribute. Effectively they're replacing Hemithorakitai and Hoplitai in the late game and the metioned units come with this...
  39. Re: What's your favorite "royal army" to build, and what is the lore/history behind it?

    Well, it's a bummer with certain pre-reform units disappearing with no choice as the Hyperaspistai don't have a good Hellenic replacement. You get better defenses with the units you mentioned, but no...
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    Re: Reputation, Relations & Diplomacy

    You'll have to compare it by yourself between EB 2 and vanila files.
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